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Village-level plan to conserve forests in UP hills

By R.P. NAILWAL, The Times of India, September 8, 1998 DEHRA DUN: Village-level plans are to be implemented for the first time in the 12 hill districts of western Uttar Pradesh under the joint forest management (JFM) project launched by the Uttar Pradesh government with…

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Hardwar’s sants resist land ceiling laws

HARDWAR, Aug 24: First it was the landowners of Udham Singh Nagar, now it’s the sants of Hardwar. The issue is the same: the land ceiling laws in the proposed state of Uttaranchal. [more]

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This Land Is My Land

THE seeds of trouble were sown three years ago when the then chief minister Mayawati declared the formation of Udham Singh Nagar district in the Kumaon region of Uttar Pradesh. Now it has grown into a full-blown harvest of discontent, with rich Terai farmers and…

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To fetch a pail of water

Society: Villagers in a distant village in Uttar Pradesh crawl 40 metres through a dark, dangerous, narrow tunnel AJAY UPRETY in Lucknow The Week, July 12, 1998 The sky was overcast even though it was 1 p.m. We, photographer R.K. Mishra and I, abandoned our…

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Central Himalayan activists protest felling of trees

Date: 26-06-1998 :: Pg: 03 :: Col: a By Our Staff Reporter NEW DELHI, June 25. It was a women-dominated show at the National Gandhi Memorial Museum today to mark the 23rd anniversary of the declaration of Emergency where activists of the central Himalayan region…

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Cultural life reaches an all time low

UNI – Friday, June 19 1998 DEHRA DUN: People of the Doon valley today cannot boast of participating in cultural activity which can stimulate their creativity and help them develop a greater appreciation for the performing arts. There was a time when theatre groups in…

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River of no return?

The Pioneer Editorial, June 17, 1998 It might seem an ecological impossibility, but the beautiful, life-affirming river Ganga might actually disappear sometime in the hypothetical expanse of time future. This is not a science fiction sub-plot or a mythical prediction. This is a fear which…

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Discriminated hill women suffer in silence

Times of India News Service, June 16, 1998 NEW DELHI: Balamdei of Kot Manyar village in Tehri district of Uttar Pradesh has been behind bars for some months now with no hope of deliverance. Her crime – she accidentally killed her alcoholic husband while trying…

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Grandeur of Gangotri lost in urbanisation

GANGOTRI, June 15 (From Sunita Aron) An army truck rammed into a ‘dhaba’ in Gangotri killing two women and seriously injuring several others on the Ganga Dushehera-a day of religious festivity in Garhwal. The deaths, away from the glare of the media, failed to create…

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Hardships abound for Nainital residents

By Santosh Verma, The Times of India News Service, May 13, 1998 NAINITAL: Citizens of this lake city are plagued with many problems, the most important among them being supply of contaminated water and poor housing. Drinking water, supplied through taps to the residents, carries…

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