क्या राजनीतिक दलों की नजर में महिलाओं की पहचान बदल रही?
देश में शायद पहली बार हुआ जब चुनाव के पहले महिलाओं को ध्यान में रखकर शपथपत्र लाया गया. मध्य प्रदेश इसका गवाह बना जहां भारतीय जनता पार्टी ने मुख्य घोषणापत्र के साथ ‘नारी शक्ति संकल्प पत्र
Madhya Pradesh spending 40 per cent of District Mineral Foundation {DMF} funds meant for other priority areas, on construction of roads -- says CSE’s latest analysis
Narmada cannot be allowed to become a ‘nullah’ like the Yamuna in Delhi – says Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan
Releases Down To Earth Hindi magazine (Narmada cover) with environmentalist Sunita Narain; assures his government will implement the measures recommended by the magazine
District Mineral Foundation (DMF) 2017
Instituted in March 2015 under India’s central mining law, the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act (1957), District Mineral Foundation (DMF)
GROWING SHORT: Scourge of stunting hits tribal children in Madhya Pradesh, says new analysis
Tribal populations in other states also affected
CSE 's Round Table on Mercury Pollution in Sonbhadra
Pollution in Sonbhadra area is not new and has been talked about for many years but no action has been taken to check the pollution. This has led to long term health impacts which have now started to show up in the population of the region. CSE took up a study to look at these health impacts and to investigate the possible causes.
Silence is the best policy
There is nothing more criminal than the conspiracy of silence. There is also nothing more abject than scientists participating in acquiescence and deceit.
EIA Analysis for Grain/Molasses based distillery along with a Co-generation Power Plant by Malwa Brew & Alcohols (India) Pvt. Ltd., Khargone, Madhya Pradesh
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) carried out a technical analysis of the Executive Summary of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the proposed Grain/Molasses based distillery and a Co-generation Power Plant (2.2 MW) by Malwa Brew & Alcohols (India) Pvt. Ltd. This was based on a request from Prakash Patidar of Khargone, Madhya Pradesh. EIA Analysis Attached
Restore your lakes and ponds, augment sewage treatment: CSE suggests to Madhya Pradesh
New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) releases Excreta Matters, its 71-city study of how Indian urban centres manage their water and sewage
Bhopal to Germany
Twenty-eight years after the lethal gas leak at Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, the 350 tonnes of toxic waste lying at the defunct factory is likely to be airlifted to Germany for safe disposal. The disposal process, however, will start only after India’s Hazardous Waste (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules of 2008, which forbid export and import of hazardous waste, are amended. Read more
Report on Panchayat Workshops in Jhabua
“Drinking Water for the Last Person” training workshops for Panchayats in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, 2011.
How government is subverting forest right act
By: Richard Mahapatra, Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava, Sumana Narayanan, Aparna Pallavi Two tribal villages in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra—Mendha Lekha and Marda— savoured victory when they won community rights over their forest resources in August last year. The rights conferred under the Forest Rights Act of 2006 include the right to collect and sell minor forest produce (MFP). These include tendu leaves used in beedis, and bamboo that have high commercial value and were under the forest department’s control. Winning the right to manage these resources meant economic liberation to the two villages.
Go wild
By: Tiasa Adhya Ashwagandha occupies a prominent position in traditional health systems like Ayurveda. In India the medicinal plant is cultivated on 4,000 hectares, mainly in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. But when it comes to being the most effective, a group of researchers claims, it is the wild variety.
Not learning from Bhopal
It is 25 years of the Bhopal gas disaster—the night when chemicals spewed out of the Union Carbide factory to kill and maim thousands over generations.
Process Package for Disposal of SEP Contents at UCIL, Bhopal, NEERI Report 1992
The Government of Madhya Pradesh proposes to utilise the land occupied by the erstwhile solar evaporation ponds (SEP) at Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), Bhopal.