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Green is his valley : Profile of Dr Avdhash Kaushal

Sanjeev Singh Bariana meets Dr Avdhaash Kaushal, the man behind the go-green movement as well as several other projects to improve the lot of bonded labour in Dehra Dun Guarding the fragile ecosystems in Uttaranchal, the Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK) has inspired conservationists…

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Right to Information Gospel Spreads in Dehradun

Rajiv Rawat Garhwal Post, 11 October 2006 DEHRADUN, 10 Oct: Right to information as a key route to empowering the people of India, was the hot topic of discussion on the eve of Loknayak J.P. Narayan’s birth anniversary this October 9 and 10th. Coming also…

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Guides for International Women's Trek complete training at NIM

Garhwal Post, 26 September 2006 A unique graduation ceremony took place at the Nerhu Institute of Mountaineering on Saturday, where thirty-eight youth hailing mostly from the upper reaches of Chamoli, but also from Uttarkashi and Pithoragarh districts, completed their basic mountaineering course. Organized by SPECS…

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Outlook: A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar?

Lalit Pande: Qualification: MIT, IIT-D. Now runs environmental education programme, USN, in 2,500 Uttarakhand schools. Outlook 18 September 2006 A quiet man, someone said. You may find it hard to make him talk. But when it matters, Lalit Pande can talk. The late afternoon light,…

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CC (2006.7.27): Uttaranchal: Depleting pasturelands

By Nitin Sethi for Down to Earth The leaders and organisers of the meet realise that nothing short of a mass movement will revive the khark Simar pasture in Dudhatoli forest division, Chamoli district of Uttaranchal, appears sparkling fresh. The memorial to Chandra Singh Garhwali…

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The Hindu (2006.7.14): Sowing seeds of inspiration

By Kanchi Kohli Beej Bachao Andolan (BBA) has its home in the beautiful Hemwalghati, in the Tehri Garhwal district of Uttaranchal. Let me share with you why it continues to be a source of motivation for many of us. BBA is a small but strong-willed…

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TOI (2006.3.27): RLEK: Rights approach to empowerment

The Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK) is a Dehra Dun-based NGO working with Van Gujjars and other hill communities for four decades. Avdesh Kaushal, founder of RLEK, speaks to V J Thomas: [more]

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INFA (2005.12.23): Uttaranchal: Decentralisation of power

Women members of the Panchayats have excelled in undertaking the developmental work in consonance with the felt needs of the local community, says Radhakrishna Rao Thanks to the 73rd Constitutional amendment ushered in 1993 which stipulated that one- third of the seats be reserved for…

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CPIML (2005.10): Environmental Devastation in Uttaranchal

Liberation, October 2005 For the past several months, Utaranchal has been witnessing a movement against the Hydro Electric Power Project at Joshimath – one of the 93 projects planned by the State Government to tap the State’s rivers for power. We carry an interview with…

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DH: Will the Van Gujjars survive?

Radhakrishna Rao finds the Van Gujjar community in danger of losing its identity to the cause of conservation. Deccan Herald, Sunday, July 24, 2005 The culturally vibrant and socially dynamic community of Van Gujjars, a nomadic, pastoral Muslim tribal group inhabiting the rapidly balding stretches…

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