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2008: Uttarakhand’s Save The Rivers Year

Ganga river, originating in the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, is well-known throughout the world as India’s sacred and most revered river. But now its very existence is threatened as the state government, driven by an untrammeled lust for revenue and money-making, has given permission…

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Outlook: Oh, What A Racket!

Anupreeta Das Outlook, September 22, 2003 Lush forests are not the only bounty that Uttaranchal got in its kitty after it became a state in November 2000. It also got close to 45,000 NGOs—mind-boggling for a state so tiny, with a population of only 84.7…

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The Sahayog affair

By Rajeev Dhavan The Hindu, May 19, 2000 SAHAYOG IS an organisation working on `AIDS’ education in the Kumaon Hills of Uttar Pradesh. In September 1999, it published a pamphlet called `AIDS aur Hum’ (AIDS and us) which described sexual acts explicitly. It also portrayed,…

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Hill culture falling prey to alien influences

Rajendra Bansal/Dehra Dun Daily Pioneer — January 11, 2000 Himalayan Environment Studies and Conservation Organisation (HESCO), a voluntary organisation here, which was awarded the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru award for the year 1999-2000 by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, at the just concluded National…

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