Visitors: 150 Ravinder Singh Inventor & Consultant, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROJECTS, a WIPO awarded inventor specializing in Power, Transportation, Water, Energy Saving, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Technologies and Project There are just two major dams in Saurashtra & Kutchh regions with 188 mcm [S.No.9] and 299 MCM Live Storages [S.No.8] Bhadar & Shetrunji respectively are practically dry […]
Vivek Umrao GlendenningThe Founder and the Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe Vice-Chancellor & Co-Founder, The Gokul Social UniversityOm Prakash Chaudhary IAS, popularly called OP Chaudhary or OP, was appointed as the district collector in South Bastar (Dantewada) in the last week of March 2011. For about two months he was busy conducting elections for the vacant seat […]
Visitors: 765 This article is based on the vision, efforts, struggle and achievements of a common tribal youth, who started to work when he was a teenager of just 15 years. This article does not follow the trend made by NGO business persons to project the paid employees of NGOs as the HEROES. This article […]
Vivek Umrao GlendenningThe Founder and the Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe Vice-Chancellor & Co-Founder, The Gokul Social UniversityDwarko Sundarani and Vivek, the chief editor of the Ground Report IndiaDwarko Sundarani, 90 years old, is a follower of Vinoba Bhave and has been serving the tribal and local communities in Gaya district of Bihar state for the […]
Visitors: 400 by Dr Madeleine Florin, PhD In the second week of the month of April 2012 I was lucky enough to catch a brief glimpse of life in Chhattisgarh, mostly of Dantewada district. For transport, I hurtled around in the back seat of the well driven and well stocked car labelled “Press”. Again, […]
Visitors: 1,682 In this exclusive ground report, I write about the models of self-sustainability established by Dr. Debal Deb, founder of the rice seed banks Vrihi and Basudha. Dr Deb has a PhD from the Calcutta University, West Bengal and post doctorates from the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and the Indian Institute of Science, […]
Visitors: 653 Dr Prakash Tyagi follows in the footprints of his father to serve the tribal community of the Thar Desert. Nowadays there is a new tradition formed by NGO owners to handover the NGO to their children, even though these children never served the community or the NGO as volunteers. But Dr Prakash […]
Visitors: 420 There is a breeze of NGOs sponsored tribal heroes in the media, on the internet and also social networking platforms for the Bastar region. Most of these sponsored heroes were or are paid employees of the NGOs working in this region. But Nandlal Baba is a young tribal person, who does not […]
Visitors: 736 The Marwar Education Foundation bought around 100 acres of barren land. This was a land with no grass, no trees but covered with salt. Varun Arya and his team from the Marwar Education Foundation took around seven years to treat this land with water harvesting structures and other natural treatments. At present, the land has 15 lakes of sweet water, […]
Visitors: 198 Anoop Nobert A new ruling dispensation has started its tenure in the southern most state of India 8 months ago & it will be not be inappropriate to think about the state of Kerala. In fact, the backdrop of the various talks and deliberations about the Free Trade Agreements only makes it too […]
Visitors: 246 For the past 20 years, more or less, I have been working, or have been associated with various known social personalities and media celebrities of social activism in India. These personalities include international awardees, mainstream political persons, RTI/RTF/RTE/ NREGA activists, activists who follow Gandhi’s ideology, organizations who pursue Gandhi’s ideology and others in […]
Visitors: 415 Prof. Satish Kailash Indian Institute of Science, (IISc) Bangalore Prof Monto Mani Indian Institute of Science, (IISc) Bangalore Abstract: Many studies have warned that the alarming depletion of water table in many parts of India, unless urgently and effectively arrested, would be irreversible. This steep decline is traced to the […]
Visitors: 464 Prof Willem Vervoort Associate Professor Hydrology Research Laboratory Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources The University of Sydney, NSW Australia Abstract Floods have a devastating effect on human lives and local economies, and therefore the traditional government risk management approach has been to reduce the occurrence probability of floods. As such, […]
Visitors: 341 Prof Surendra Pathak Director, Research IASE Deemed University Head, Department of value Education, IASE Deemed University Mother earth is considered one of the most beautiful and harmonious planets in the Universe. Earth may be the only planet in our galaxy that has enough water and environment for the further evolution […]
Visitors: 409 Shankar Sharma Preface The ‘expert group on low carbon strategies for inclusive growth’ which was set up under the Planning Commission to develop a strategy for India’s 12th Five Year Plan has released its interim report recently. While this interim report echoes the earlier govt. stand that India is one of […]
Visitors: 271 Prof S S A Jafri PhD Ms Milita Haldar Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow Lecturer, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Engineering and Management College, Lucknow and Doctoral Fellow, Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow Abstract For having all round development of the economy, the need of the hour is to have sound land use […]
Visitors: 569 Anupam Mishra Environmentalist Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi Covered with sweat, the chelvanji is at work inside the kuin (well). Already about a depth of thirty to thirty five hands (cubits) have been dug. Now onwards the heat inside will go on increasing. The width of the kuin and its circumference are […]
Visitors: 201 1. Overview India is faced with the challenge of sustaining its rapid economic growth while dealing with the global threat of climate change. This threat emanates from accumulated greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, anthropogenically generated through long-term and intensive industrial growth and high consumption lifestyles in developed countries. While engaged with the […]
Visitors: 1,511 United Nations, UN, selected Dewas district’s community water management works in the best three water management practices in the world under the category of “Best Water Management Practices” for 2011-2012. The link of UN website of the award is given below- (the third rank in category 01) http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/finalists2012.shtml Dewas, Ponds, Reva Sagar, Local […]
Visitors: 230 Appeal by: Dr. V. Pugazhenthi MBBS, 1/187, Mudhaliyar Street,Sadras, Kanchipuram District,Tamil Nadu, India 603 102Ph: 8870578769 Sub: False Charges filed on me to curtail my professional and democratic duty to warn the people I am serving about the ill effects of the nuclear radiation around the Kalpakkam Nuclear Power PlantI am a medical […]
Visitors: 175 The Global Water Partnership together with IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, under the auspices of UNESCO, at the University of Dundee, is looking to build on their successful 2011 International Water Law Programme (http://www.dundee.ac.uk/water/workshop), and offer scholarships for 30 participants to undertake a module in International Water Law, in Dundee […]
Visitors: 197 INTRODUCTION Recently world has seen nuclear catastrophe during Tsunami in Japan, political Tsunami in Middle East and Africa; racial & ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka, east Asia and middle-east; terrorist and fundamentalist attacks in India, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries as well as Maoist Violence in south Asia. This shows the expression […]
Visitors: 158 Dear Patron, Ground Report India team will start 75 days tour from 5th October 2011 covering hundreds of villages of various states (around 12 states) of India for special edition on “Water & Agriculture”. GRI team will try to cover Delhi, NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and […]
Visitors: 155 Brussels, 26 September 2011 The European Commission today launched a public consultation on strengthening EU measures to reduce emissions of fluorinated gases, a group of industrial gases which are extremely powerful contributors to global warming. A Commission review,1 which was also adopted today, concludes that the EU’s existing Regulation on fluorinated gases (‘F-gases’) […]
Visitors: 155 September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States have made terrorism an international issue. In spite of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and expenditure of trillions of dollars in international efforts to curb terrorism, world does not appear to be safer than before. However, in the process, dignity and civil rights of […]