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Five years age, International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be used to encourage construction of otherwise uneconomic large hydropower projects, taking limited funds away...
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This manual is provided as a reference tool to assist Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereafter referred to as the Convention) (Annex I Parties) in the implementation of their commitments related to the accounting of emissions and assigned amount under the...
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Budget presented by Shri Prasanna Acharya. The first part contains the Agriculture Budget.
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that infrastructure like roads, irrigation, electricity aid in growth and so do quality of human capital. Hence …
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in Agriculture and Irrigation: (1) Augmentation of water resources for irrigation; (2) Conservation of irrigation water …
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Attention has been paid to the significance of the non-farm sector in the rural Indian economy since the early 1970s. The importance of earnings from secondary non-farm occupations is not well documented. In this paper an attempt is made to assess the contribution of the nonfarm sector across...
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A desert journey, from a pool where both humans and camels drank, to a bavadi then to a water tap in Khaba village has some valuable lessons about the ground realities of the social forces around water.
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This paper deals with the impact of irrigation on agrarian change and local politics in the period, 1960 to 1996 in the … from canal irrigation, strengthened the position of the dominant castes/classes, small and middle peasantry continued to … points to a policy implication: irrigation alone, without agrarian reform, cannot lead to progressive change and for more …
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The bulk of the resources must go to the UPA Government’s eight flagship programmes: Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Mid-day Meal Scheme, Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission, Total Sanitation Campaign, National Rural Health Mission, Integrated Child Development Services, National Rural Employment...
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This paper estimates respective roles of private investments in irrigation and local government programs (land reforms …
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