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• Green revolution withers away in two years

  6.5 L of 9.19 L Saplings Planted During Swarnim Gujarat Have Died Ahmedabad:This is one green record nobody in the government wants to remember. Over 9.19 lakh tree saplings were planted across Ahmedabad on July 31, 2010 as part of Swarnim Gujarat celebrations. Chief Minister Narendra Modi had joined 25,000-odd volunteers to contribute to the green movement. Claims for the green glory were also made to the Guinness Book of World Records. Two years later, more than 6.5 lakh saplings have withered away. In some zones, the ground looks dry, flat and hardly betrays a sign that trees were ever planted there.

  • 05/06/2012

  • Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
  • • Ahmedabad (T)
    • Afforestation
    • Trees
    • Municipal Corporation
    • Environment
    • Forests
    • Gujarat

• Banyan city boasts of highest green cover

  Vadodara Has 46 Trees Per Hectare Which Is Way Above State Average Vadodara: The Banyan city is growing by leaps and bounds but it is still breathing fresh air compared to bigger cities in Gujarat. A tree census done by the forest department and Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) in the city limits has revealed that the city’s residents are far luckier when it comes to fresh air and green cover. Vadodara has 7,47,193 trees spread over an area of 16,261 hectares. The survey was done for several months in 25 wards of VMC.

  • 05/06/2012

  • Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
  • • Vadodara (T)
    • Municipal Corporation
    • Afforestation
    • Trees
    • Forests
    • Gujarat

• Gujarat's environment ranking goes up

  AHMEDABAD: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India may have painted a dismal picture of pollution in Gujarat, but the latest report of Planning Commission's environment and forest division reveals that the state has shown significant improvement in handling environment and pollution-related issues. Last year, the Planning Commission put Gujarat at number 16 in the overall environment ranking among 35 states and union territories. This year, the state has jumped 11 notches to secure 5th rank.

  • 05/06/2012

  • Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
  • • Planning Commission
    • Waste Management
    • Pollution
    • Climate Change
    • Water Pollution
    • Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)
    • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • Environment
    • Gujarat

• Future’s Bright for Clean Power Cos

  Growth opportunities in the renewable energy space are shifting to Southeast and South Asia, where investors are lured by generous incentives, reports Rachita Prasad Billions of dollars worth of investment

  • 05/06/2012

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)
  • • Renewable Energy
    • Energy
    • India
    • South Asia
    • Power Industry

• Huda takes steps to end Gurgaon’s water crisis

  With the water crisis worsening in Gurgaon, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has finally woken up to the need of ensuring proper water supply in all areas. Huda administrator Preveen Kumar

  • 05/06/2012

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Gurgaon (D)
    • Haryana
    • Drinking Water Scarcity
    • Water Supply
    • Municipal Corporation
    • Sewage Treatment Plants (STP)
    • Water Harvesting

• Death of fish: KSU blames cement plants

  Shillong: The death of thousands of fish at Wah Lukha in Jaintia Hills and Ranikor river is directly linked mushrooming of cement plants and unscientific mining activities being carried out in the two districts of the state, says the KSU. “The rise in number of cement plants in Jaintia Hills has posed a great threat not only to the forests and environment but also the aquatic lives to the extend that all the rivers are poisoned making survival of aquatic lives almost impossible”, KSU Environment and Cultural Secretary J Marbaniang said.

  • 05/06/2012

  • Shillong Times (Shillong)
  • • Jaintia Hills
    • River Pollution
    • Fish
    • Cement Industry
    • Industrial Waste
    • Mining
    • Toxic Wastes
    • Hazardous Waste
    • Meghalaya

• Petrol price cut by another 92 paise, no VAT on CNG

  The approval of Delhi budget 2012-13 on Monday brought about the rollback several levies proposed by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who also holds the Finance portfolio. The much protested proposal of

  • 05/06/2012

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • CNG
    • Fuel Pricing
    • Petrol
    • Energy
    • Delhi
    • Textile Industry

• MP set to topple Haryana as No. 2 in wheat procurement

  Madhya Pradesh, one of the BIMARU states, has inched closer to displace Haryana from the second spot in wheat procurement. The state’s performance, in fact, has boosted the procurement in the country that

  • 05/06/2012

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Wheat
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Agriculture
    • Haryana
    • Budget
    • Parliament

• New pollutants: Sun control films, confiscated vehicles

  After the Supreme Court directive to remove sun control films from car windows, the city is threatened with a new pollutant. Hundreds of these tinted films being removed on a day-to-day basis, have found a place in the streets after the Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) intensified the drive against sun control films. It is estimated that films from around 500 vehicles are removed on a daily basis in the city.

  • 05/06/2012

  • New Indian Express (Kochi)
  • • Kochi
    • Supreme Court
    • Secondary Pollutants
    • Vehicles
    • Waste Disposal
    • Ernakulam
    • Water Pollution
    • Solid Waste
    • Kerala

• Corporation aims for plastic-free Kochi

  The Corporation will launch a series of novel programmes in connection with the World Environment Day on Tuesday. The highlight will be the anti-plastic and eco-friendly campaign ‘Bhoomika’ organised by the civic body. Several private agencies will join hands with the civic body to take the environment-friendly initiatives forward. These agencies will carry out ecofriendly initiatives as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities.

  • 05/06/2012

  • New Indian Express (Kochi)
  • • Kochi
    • Plastics
    • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
    • Waste Management
    • Solid Waste
    • Kerala

• Green responsibility paper from projects looking for clearance

  Companies setting up new projects will need to spell out how they propose to protect the environment, and how much cost such steps will entail, under new guidelines drafted by the government for green

  • 05/06/2012

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)
    • Environment
    • India
    • Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
    • Pollution Control
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)

• Lakshadweep islands in troubled waters, says environmental study

  The Lakshadweep group of islands, one of the most biologically diverse and fragile environments in India, is under pressure from population, urbanisation, development of tourism, unregulated construction, pollution, and land use changes. A study on the state of the environment of the union territory, conducted by the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE), has found that rising sea level and climate change are as much of a threat as human activities to the archipelago comprising corals, lagoons, sea grass, beaches, and sand dunes.

  • 05/06/2012

  • Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
  • • Lakshadweep
    • Islands
    • Population
    • Urbanisation
    • Tourism
    • Pollution
    • Land Use
    • Sea Level Rise
    • Climate Change
    • Biodiversity
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • Andamans
    • Nicobar Islands
    • Turtles
    • Mammals
    • Medicinal Plants
    • Sewage Pollution
    • Water Pollution
    • Environment
    • Kerala

• GoM head Chidambaram not meeting Bhopal survivors!

  Leaders of five organisations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster on Monday faxed a memorandum to Home Minister P Chidambaram a day ahead of his visit to Bhopal. The organisations said that they

  • 05/06/2012

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Bhopal (D)
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Industrial Waste
    • Supreme Court
    • Compensation
    • Hazardous Waste
    • Union Carbide
    • Rehabilitation
    • People

• MP earned record revenue from minerals in last 7 yrs

  Minister of State for Mineral Resources and Energy (independent charge) Rajendra Shukla has said that besides ensuring increase in minerals revenue in Madhya Pradesh, strict steps have also been taken

  • 05/06/2012

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Madhya Pradesh
    • Mining
    • Transport
    • Minerals
    • Coal

• Jayalalithaa wants Centre to absorb portion of Kudankulam package cost

  In her speech at the Union Planning Commission in New Delhi, she said that her government had made enormous efforts to end the anti-nuclear plant agitation. Its efforts would benefit the Centre's long-term policy on nuclear energy. Of the total package, Rs.300 crore would be required for providing housing to 10,000 persons living around the KKNNP site. The remaining Rs.200 crore would be spent by KKNPP authorities under their Corporate Social Responsibility schemes for meeting other basic needs such as fish landing centre, cold storage facilities and motor boat repair workshop.

  • 05/06/2012

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Tirunelveli (D)
    • Koodunkulam APS
    • Nuclear Power Plants
    • Planning Commission
    • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
    • Drinking Water
    • Nuclear Power
    • Finance
    • Energy
    • Tamil Nadu

• Every day should be treated as Environment Day

  TOI Guest Editor Sunita Narain presents a green paper on all the things India desperately needs to get right Would you like a cola and some chips,” we asked. To her credit, Sunita Narain, India’s best

  • 05/06/2012

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Environment
    • CSE
    • Sunita Narain
    • Groundwater
    • Groundwater Pollution

• Over 3,000 illegal SSIs in State

  Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) Chairperson A S Sadashivaiah said on Monday that there are over 3,000 small-scale industrial units functioning without licence in the State. Sadashivaiah said 500 such illegal units are located in and around the Peenya industrial hub. Many of these units don’t even have a licence from authorities concerned and don’t comply with pollution norms.

  • 05/06/2012

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • Chemical Industry
    • Bangalore (T)
    • Municipal Corporation
    • Industrial Waste
    • Industrial Pollution
    • Health Effects
    • Hazardous Waste
    • Karnataka

• No tokenism, activists want concrete action

  New Delhi: About five times a year, the world breaks into celebrations over planet earth. Irrespective of what is done in the remaining 360 days, each time world water day, earth day, environment day or

  • 05/06/2012

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • CSE
    • Environmentalists
    • Environment
    • Chintan
    • Kalpavriksh
    • NGO
    • India
    • Information

• Tigers find a safe haven in Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary

  With 80 big cats, the sanctuary has the largest number of tigers in South India after Bandipur The Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, known as the habitat of the Asiatic elephant, has become a safe haven for tigers. A recently concluded tiger monitoring conducted by the Forest Department and the WWF-India in the sanctuary has revealed that it may house the largest population of tigers in South India, after Karnataka's Bandipur Tiger Reserve, a sanctuary adjacent to the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary.

  • 05/06/2012

  • Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
  • • Wayanad
    • Tiger
    • Elephant
    • Bandipur NP
    • Tiger Reserves
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • Nilgiri
    • Biosphere Reserves
    • Endangered Species
    • WWF
    • Wildlife
    • Kerala

• All plan, no action as Ganga of south gets sullied

  Kochi: In the abode of Lord Ayappa, devotees seeking a darshan must take a dip in the Pampa. It’s dictated by tradition and it doesn’t matter that the river, also known as Dakshin Ganga, has become unfit

  • 05/06/2012

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Water Pollution
    • River Pollution
    • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • Faecal Coliforms
    • Water Quality
    • Pathanamthitta (D)
    • Kerala
    • Idukki
    • Pampa
    • Alappuzha (D)
    • National River Conservation Directorate
    • Pampa Action Plan