UNI – Saturday, May 8 1999 DEHRA DUN: Activists of the “Beej Bachao Andolan” (Save the Seed Campaign) have stressed the need to conserve the rich biodiversity of the Uttarakhand hill region to reduce hunger and malnutrition in the area. At a workshop on “The…
Read more »Jaishree Suryanarayan and Ashish Kothari April 19, 1999 The Setting Tucked away in a picturesque part of the Himalayan foothills, the village of Jardhargaon has a remarkable story to tell. A story of how a community organised itself to conserve precious forests, achieve equity in…
Read more »Hindustan Times, March 20, 1999 (Amitabh Srivastava) Tension is building up in the city as the D-day for the auction of liquor vends approaches near. The total revenue in this lucrative business along with lottery and quarrying in hill areas is about Rs 300 crore…
Read more »The Times of India, 17 March 1999 DEHRA DUN: Even as the concerned state government agencies in the Garhwal hills are preparing for the annual auction of liquor vends, which is usually held in March, protests are being made again against the ever-increasing sale of…
Read more »UNI – Wednesday, February 17 1999 DEHRA DUN: The Council for Advancement of People’s Action in Rural Technology (CAPART) has called upon the several NGOs working in the Garhwal and Kumaon hills to begin documenting rural technology in this region. Mr Ranjan Dutta, director general…
Read more »In the 19th century British colonial administrators in India took control of vast areas of forestland, which they subsequently exploited through the Imperial Forest Service. A good part of this forestland had originally been managed communally in accordance with local rules and regulations. With the…
Read more »UNI – October 22, 1998 There is an increasing pressure on the environment of the ‘Gangotri Dham’ in the absence of guidelines to accommodate the growing pilgrim traffic in conformity with the Himalayan ecosystem. This has been highlighted in Gangotri Dham Victimised, a book written…
Read more »Date: 19-10-1998 :: Pg: 15 :: Col: d By K. Kannan (The Hindu) NAINI TAL, Oct. 18: Before the first British description of Naini Tal appeared in the Calcutta Englishman in 1842, the Naini lake in the vicinity of Almora was frequented by the “puharees”…
Read more »UNI – Sunday, October 18 1998 RISHIKESH: An appropriate strategy for biodiversity conservation in the fragile Himalayan ecosystem requires immediate action at the international, national and local levels, says a paper presented at “Mountain Meet ’98” held here recently. The paper, titled “The strategy for…
Read more »Vijay Simha Indian Express, Sun Oct 04 1998 NEW DELHI, Oct 3: Reflecting the current plurality in her party, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today admitted virtually the entire Uttarakhand Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) unit into her fold while keeping speculation alive on a possible understanding…
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