While attacking Modi for allegedly making "conditional promises" to the people of Uttar Pradesh, Gandhi promised in the same vein if Congress-SP alliance forms government in UP it "will give Rs 20 lakh to youths for starting their own business. "He should come with me to the Ganga and if work to clean it has not started, either he can jump into the Ganga or I will," she told NDTVShe also accused the Akhilesh Yadav government of posing hurdles to her mission to clean the river Ganga and adviced Rahul Gandhi to call off the alliance with Congress.Varanasi: BJPs firebrand leader Uma Bharti on Saturday mocked Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi over the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and said that he would run away to Thailand after seeing the results."Modi told Maa Ganga that first make him the Prime Minister and then only he will carry out its cleaning works," said Gandhi while seeking votes for local party MLA Ajai Rai from Pindara assembly seat under Banaras Lok Sabha constituency."." Referring to a slew of PMs alleged promises for Varanasi, Rahul said "Modi had promised Metro rail, did people get it?""Modi talked of making Benaras a Kyoto city, give each house clean drinking water, fly luxury planes over Ganga and to set up a Bhojpuri film city here," said Rahul asking if the city got any of these things till now despite lapse of over three years since he became the PM.On Thursday, Rahul had hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and had accused him of making "conditional promises and deals" Hand made rock wool sandwich panel with double layer magnesium oxide boards Suppliers even with "Ganga maa".She challenged him to visit Varanasi’s river banks to see the clean-up work done by her government.Exuding confidence that Congress-SP alliance would win the UP assembly elections, Gandhi said the polling in the last five phases has shown that voters favoured Congress-SP alliance while "Modi ji lost his smiles had looked sad as if he has already lost the polls.""Modi strikes relationships with the Ganga maa saying he he is beta of Banaras and that Maa Ganga called him to Varanasi," said Rahul and asked, "Does Maa Ganga had only one son and that too from Gujarat??”"Ganga belongs to everyone and not to a single person."I urge Rahul Gandhi not to run away to Thailand as he is likely to once the assembly election results are out," she told NDTV.

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As the police has not yet issued them a no-objection certificate (NoC), we have been forced to postpone our plans to start the scheme before monsoon,” said a top civic official from the solid waste management (SWM) department.The civic body had appointed 23 private security agencies that will appoint marshals at 778 places in the city to ensure cleanliness.“The registration of these agencies with the police has been going on since China Aluminum air grill the last month. However, the civic body was inundated with complaints of corruptionand high-handedness.The clean-up marshal scheme has been discontinued twice earlier – once in 2011 and the second time in 2014 – amidst allegations of corruption by the marshals.

Started in 2007, the civic body appointed several private agencies whose marshals were authorised to fine people who littered public places.However, some of the controversial clauses in the earlier scheme like a Rs 20,000 fine on dumping of debris and a Rs 10,000 fine for throwing biomedical waste have been removed from the scheme, said officials.This monsoon, the city may face cleanliness issues which could lead to a rise in monsoon-related ailments. The reason being the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s plans to restart the clean-up marshal scheme before the monsoon has hit a roadblock due to delay in security agencies getting police permission.

The civic body had made it compulsory for these agencies to register with the police and seek no-objection certificates (NoC) from them.Civic officials said clean-up marshals would be appointed at crowded places like markets, railway stations, roads, beaches, commercial complexes and hawking zones with the authority to fine people for spitting, urinating and littering in public places.

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For instance, Monocrotophos, banned in the US because it killed birds and a wide variety of non-target insects, is still being used in India without any supervision. Yes some of the pesticides and chemicals from the soil have entered our food chain.Ironically, actions we took, or are still taking, to make land more productive in order to meet the food requirements China Yanxin Environmental Manufacturers of our growing population have caused immense damage to our soil.Shyam Khadka is the India representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. The results are there for all of us to see. The earthworm’s night soil has bacterial population that is nearly a hundred times more than in the surrounding soil. Organisms inhabiting soils form a complex web of ecological activity called the soil food web that makes all life possible.

They ensure good, healthy soils, tirelessly digesting leaf litter and other biomass along with soil. Many insect species are soil dwellers for at least some stage of their life-cycle. Perhaps it is still not too late to make interventions that prevent or even reverse land degradation.According to (2010) estimates of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, of India’s total area of 328. We need to remind ourselves, it takes a thousand years for 1 cm of soil to be formed. While a wealth of knowledge and research on soils exists in the country these need to be communicated to farmers. Like earthworms, other organisms living in the soil also nourish it. India, for sure, will need to arrest the bulge and reverse land degradation. A third of India’s land is already degraded, putting a question mark on the sustainability of its food production.

The country’s recently launched Soil Card programme may, to a certain extent, solve the problem, provided it is backed by extension services to farmers. Desertification or soil erosion, mainly caused by wind and rain, are natural phenomena we can mitigate by providing forest or other vegetation cover.Take the humble earthworm, for instance.Where we need to bring about a major change is in the judicious use of pesticides and chemical fertilisers. In fact, nowhere in nature are living species so densely packed as in some soil communities.Soils are not inert.As the International Year of Soils (2015) draws to an end it may be pertinent to ask, how clean is our soil. Currently, many of the pesticides that India produces and uses extensively have been banned in other parts of the world.3 billion tonnes of soil gets eroded every year. As water and wind erosion is widespread across India, some 5.

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