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As Gujarat goes to polls on April 23, Narmada is “forgotten̶...
Sunday, April 21, 2019 Boats dumped on the bank of river Narmada in Bharuch
By Mayank Aggarwal*
Sanjaybhai Machhi, 33, a resident of Bharuch in Gujarat, was a fisherman until a few years ago. He would earn enough from fishing in the Narmada river, to sustain his family. But now things have taken a turn for the worse and Sanjaybhai has had to s...
Despite “higher” water storage in Narmada dam, Kutch, Saur...
Sunday, April 21, 2019 Indira Sagar dam in Madhya Pradesh
Counterview Desk
Well-known environmentalist Himanshu Thakkar of the top advocacy group, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) has wondered as why, despite Gujarat having so much Narmada water this year, it is refusing to share it with drought hit and thirsty parts of t...
Over-dependence on groundwater usage for irrigation: Gujarat average 7...
Saturday, April 20, 2019 By Persis Ginwalla, Sagar Rabari*
Over the three agriculture census periods (15 years), one can see that there has been an increase in overall holdings and the area under irrigation, and a net decrease in the unirrigated holdings and area in Gujarat. Increase in the irrigation cover in Gujarat is certainly significant, ...
60% urban men aged 20-24 unemployed, 5 lakh lost jobs in Gujarat 2016
Thursday, April 18, 2019 Counterview Desk
In a new report, "State of Working India", prepared by the Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, even as taking strong exception to the Government of India discontinuing employment and unemployment survey, has quoted independent surveys to say that a whopping five million...
Book on seven interconnected “political” murders, includin...
CV News/ Wednesday, April 17, 2019 A controversial new book in Hindi, ‘Satta ki Suli’, with an account on CBI judge BH Loya’s death case, released in Ahmedabad, has sought to cover not only the alleged murder of the judge but also a series of seven other "political murders".
The book, authored by Mahendra Mishra, Pradeep Singh and Upendra Chowd...
Modi model? “Refusal” to build Narmada’s micro canal...
Monday, April 15, 2019 Counterview By Medha Patkar*
This is the latest photograph of the Kutch Branch Canal (KBC) of the Sardar Sarovar, as of April 8! What does it show, expose, and what memories do you recall? Is it dry or dead? Is it a canal or a carcass of the same?
None has forgotten the fact that the Sardar Sarovar was approved as a dam ...
Investigation shows Narmada downstream “seriously” pollute...
By Rohit Prajapati, Krishnakant, Swati Desai*
Our investigation regarding quality of water flowing in the Narmada river downstream of the Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSD), dated April 6, 2019, between 11.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. reiterates, what is commonly known now, that the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) is planned without considering its impact on the downs...
Why are you silent on discrimination against Dalit jawans? Macwan ques...
Friday, April 12, 2019 Close on the heels of releasing his book in Gujarati, "Bhed Bharat", which lists 319 cases of atrocities against Dalits and Adivasis across the country over the last five years, well-known Gujarat Dalit rights leader Martin Macwan has shot an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, telling him the reasons why he does ...
Abandon coal-based power plants, dams on Narmada river: MP 34 civil so...
Friday, April 12, 2019 Counterview Desk
As many as 34 civil society organizations of Madhya Pradesh, forming Jan Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti, have, through a statement, put forward a list of demands before candidates fighting the Lok Sabha elections, ranging from abandoning new plans to have coal-based power plants to suspending fresh dams on the...
Jindal Steel & Power – Misleading Indian investors & Bankers...
Naveen Jindal has been using the coffers of JSPL to settle his personal rivalry against the Gujarat NRE group for years now, forgetting that JSPL is a public listed company with a separate legal entity and not a personal cheque book to be used at the promoter’s will, said Arun Kumar Jagatramka. Despite knowing fully well that JSPL is barred unde...
”Failure” of a Modi campaign: 51% Gujarat men tobacco addi...
Saturday, March 30, 2019 By Rajiv Shah
While the Gujarat government may claim to have decided to begin a “tobacco free Gujarat” campaign in 2011 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the state chief minister. Yet, latest available data suggest that as many as 51.4 per cent of men and seven per cent of women in the state use any form of tobacco ...
Notice to take action against CETPs, STPs, Polluting Industries, AMC
Notice to take action against CETPs, STPs, Polluting Industries, and Amdavad Municipal Corporation in view of Dangerously Very High COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand), BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand) and zero DO (Dissolved Oxygen) levels observed in the water of Sabarmati River. It is now known and admitted reality that untreated and poorly treated ind...
Sabarmati for120 km stretch is dead, releasing industrial effluents
Several civil society organisations led by Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti (PSS), Vadodara, in close coordination with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board have released reports'on joint investigations by pollution levels in the prime water source of Ahmedabad District, Sabarmati river, finding their condition disastrous.
The reports note that Sabarmati...
Gujarat govt “changed norms” to declare it fit to drink
The Lokshahi Bachao Andolan, a Gujarat-based civil rights organization headed by former BJP chief minister Suresh Mehta, has alleged that the state government has changed the minimum acceptable standard of drinking water from 500 milligrams per liter of TDS to 2,000 milligrams, risking the health of crores of people of Gujarat. Pointing out that th...
35% job loss after demonetization, 50% dip in revenues of MSMEs: Econo...
CV News/ Friday, March 15, 2019
Talking about the "adverse" impact of the November 2016 demonetisation, a senior academic has revealed, at a meeting organized by the Financial Accountability Network India and Delhi Forum, two civil rigs organizations, ever since, India's micro and small enterprises have suffered 35% job losses and 50 per cent dip ...