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Mining Environment Management Manual
This Mining Environment Management Manual is developed for the benefit of the entire mining industry in the Country. The Manual has been designed in such a manner that it can be easily used by the engineers and environmentalists in the mining complexes in their efforts for the management of mining environment. The Manual presents the existing status and comprehensive overview of all the aspects of mining environment. Since environment is a developing subject the user of the Manual is suggested to, wherever necessary, consult the web-sites of MOEF and other concerned organizations for the latest status. The manual in nineteen chapters outlines the following for the benefit of the users. 1. Br...
Mine Closure
Mining is basically an intermediate use of land and it causes various impacts on all the components of environment. In most situations the impacts on land are severe and may cause the land to become useless for any economic use after mining. Since, the mining companies take land areas which have been in various uses before the onset of mining activities it should have been obligatory for the companies to develop the land areas for uses most suitable for the economic activities after mining. Though this was known right from the inception of the mining activities the efforts towards developing the land after mining were negligible. This has resulted in devastation of mined out land in many loc...
Subsidence Management Handbook
Subsidence movements due to various natural and manmade activities have been attracting attention of the people all over the globe because these movements have been affecting the life in many ways due to the impacts the movements cause to the surface, sub-surface and underground properties. Among the various subsidence causing activities the author has considered the underground mining in sedimentary deposits and withdrawal of water from the underground sources as the most important from the point of view of Indian scenario. Underground mining of sedimentary deposits in India has been going on for more than 225 years and as yet there is practically no indigenous literature available for the ...
What Ails the IAS and Why It Fails to Deliver
An unorthodox and maverick administrator, the author worked in top policy positions, but the system rejected the reforms that he advocated. In his career he followed the economic philosophy of ‘socialism for the poor and free market for the rich’. However, the political and administrative system in India seemed to believe in ‘indifference to the poor and control over the rich to facilitate rent seeking’. The book is full of anecdotes ranging from how the author resisted political corruption that led to the Prime Minister’s annoyance to a situation when the author himself ‘bribed’ the Chief Minister to scrap oppressive laws against tribal women. As Joint Secretary, Minorities Co...
Mining Environment Management Manual
In Indian context.
India's Eucalyptus Craze
The factors which prompted the trend among Indian farmers for planting eucalyptus trees are considered in this unique study. The author examines three hypotheses regarding the suitability of using eucalyptus trees for farm forestry: the socio-economic background of farmers; a regional pattern of adoption; and problems in production and marketing. To examine these hypotheses, a detailed field study in north-west India was undertaken to establish the pattern of adoption of eucalyptus over the period 1980-86 and the reasons for its subsequent rejection.
The Saga of Participatory Forest Management in India
Forest policy in India before 1988. The 1988 forest policy Joint forest management. Locally inspired collective action. State sponsored people's participation. Constraints of government policies. Programmes complementary to joint forest management. Property regimes and JFM in India.
Environmental Issues in India
Contributed articles presented at a workshop convened at Department of History, Delhi University in September 2005.
Reaching the Poor
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