By Panchali Ray

With an eye on the elections and unwilling to stir up situations like Singur and Nandigram, the West Bengal government has stalled plans to build a thermal power plant in Katwa, even though 9.910 acres of land have already been acquired. But nobody believes the project has been scrapped and villagers who will have to give up their land and livelihoods are preparing for a long battle ahead More...

By Tushar Dash

The Forest Rights Act has been opposed by those who fear it will pave the way for the destruction of forests and wildlife. But in Orissa there is evidence that the Act is in fact being used by local communities to strengthen their conservation initiatives More...

By Nilanjan Dutta

Clearance for a huge chemical hub on the barren island of Nayachar, West Bengal, has come just weeks before the polls in the state. But this time around, there is no opposition. While the hazardous project will not displace people, an expert committee of civil society organisations says it will have serious and far-reaching consequences for fishing, marine ecology and the Sunderban biosphere reserve More...

By Moushumi Basu

At a time when rural electrification is moving at snail’s pace in Jharkhand, with nearly 50% of villages continuing to live in the ‘Dark Ages’, villagers are using bio-gassifiers and micro-thermal plants to light up their homes and streets More...

By Rifat Mumtaz

India has emerged as the world’s largest producer of sponge iron. But the cost of this spectacular growth is being borne by people living in areas that produce sponge iron, such as Bellary, Karnataka. Thick black smoke, contaminated and depleted water supply and falling agricultural yields are just some of the fallouts More...

By Usha Rai

With the undergrowth in Delhi’s Lodhi Gardens being steadily removed to extend the gardens for more courting couples and morning walkers, peahens are being displaced and forced to nest on the ledges of adjoining buildings 24-36 feet from the ground More...

By Tarsh Thekaekara

Many countries have ill treated and persecuted their indigenous people, often in worse ways than India. But while some leaders like Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd have gone on record to apologise for past actions, India doesn’t even want to acknowledge what it has done to its tribal populations More...

By Ishaprasad Bhagwat, Indira Khurana and Richard Mahapatra

As policymakers from across South Asia meet in Delhi for the Third South Asian Conference on Sanitation, 665 million Indians continue to defecate out in the open. If India is to meet its target of 100% sanitation by 2012, we will need to set up 78 toilets a minute, or 40,000 toilets a day, over the next four years. Can we do it? More...

By N P Chekkutty

Micro-level studies conducted by KSSP reveal that since 1987 over 50% of hill in panchayats and municipal towns surveyed in Kerala have been excavated by the construction industry. This has serious consequences for agricultural and drinking water supply More...

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