Centre going slow on ESA, CRZ notification
The Centre appears to be going slow on issuing the final notification on the Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) in the State as per the Kasturirangan Committee report and the modification to the Coastal
The Centre appears to be going slow on issuing the final notification on the Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) in the State as per the Kasturirangan Committee report and the modification to the Coastal
Jhatkaa.org has launched an online campaign as part of its Save Western Ghats project and create public awareness about the Kasturirangan committee report. The Union Ministry of Environment, Forests
Members will tour areas coming under purview of Kasturirangan panel report The Dakshina Kannada unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has asked the two newly formed Cabinet Subcommittees to address the
State has conveyed to Centre its stand on HLWG report Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said the Kerala government does not want the report of the K. Kasturirangan-led High-Level Working Group (HLWG)
Experts Say Kasturirangan Report Does Not Ban Construction, Cultivation, Tourism And Infrastructure Development In Villages In ESA Viju B Chief minister Oommen Chandy may have succumbed to political pressure from UDF allies, quarry owners and church authorities, who want a drastic reduction in the number of villages categorized as Ecological Sensitive Area (ESA) as per the Kasturirangan committee report.
Stakeholders Can Make Comments And Suggestions With the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) releasing the draft notification regarding the Kasturirangan report on its website on Tuesday, the state government plans to follow suit by publishing area-specific details of the 123 villages marked as Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) by the end of this week.
The Congress-Government Coordination Committee that will meet here on Tuesday is expected to work out a strategy to tackle the possible fallout of the K. Kasturirangan report on the conservation of Western Ghats that has identified 123 villages in the State as ecologically sensitive areas (ESAs). Senior party leaders are expecting some sort of action from the Union government, at least to the extent of accepting the Oommen V. Oommen panel report that had recommended exemption from the ESA provisions for an area over 3,000 sq miles, including populated areas and rubber plantations.
This memorandum dated 20 Dec 2013 issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests clarifies that there is no ban on agriculture and plantations activities along the Western Ghats. Read the text.
The State Cabinet sub-committee on Western Ghats, on Thursday, resolved to hold the rights to review the red industries mentioned in the Kasturirangan report. In a meeting chaired by Forest and Environment Minister, Ramanath Rai, the sub-committee took the decision to review the State-owned red industries set up in the Ecologically Sensitive Zone (ESZ) of the Western Ghats.
A row has erupted over the report submitted by the expert panel constituted by the state government to review the Kasturirangan panel report on Western Ghats, as sections of the greens and political leaders
5 firms likely to ask for rethink on application to open new quarries As many as five firms may ask for reconsideration of their application for opening new granite quarries in Western Ghats, invoking an order of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest.
<p>The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) was pulled up by the National Green Tribunal for not filing its final report on recommendations of the Madhav Gadgil report and Kasturirangan report on ecological significance of the Western Ghats. It also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on MoEF for failing to file the report despite being given four weeks time on August 30, 2013. Read text of this court order.</p>
Environment Minister M. Veerappa Moily on Wednesday refused to give any timeline to settle issues regarding implementation of the Kasturirangan panel report on the Western Ghats. “I can’t give you a timeline.
The Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishad has urged the central government to reject the recommendations of the high-level working group on Western Ghats headed by K Kasturirangan, claiming that its implementation
PANJIM: At least 99 villages including around 90 in the heart of the State’s mining belts of Sattari and Sanguem have been declared ecologically sensitive areas under the Environment Protection Act, 1976, by the Kasturirangan report, amidst accusations that it had sought to dilute the Gadgil panel report. The high-powered committee was formed by the Centre to study and recommend ways to implement the Madhav Ghadgil report on UNESCO featured biodiversity hotspot, the Western Ghats.
The Swadeshi Jagaran Manch has demanded the withdrawal of the Kasturirangan Committee report on the Western Ghats. It called upon the Centre to implement the Madhav Gadgil Committee report instead and
A three-member expert committee will study the Kasturirangan Committee report on Western Ghats to help the state form an official view on the matter. The committee comprising Oommen V Oommen, chairman
On Monday evening, Eliamma George, president of Thiruvambady gramapanchayat, declared the 12-hour hartal in the district against K. Kasturirangan Committee report on Western Ghats a “success”. But closer,
A cabinet sub-committee constituted to go in to pros and cons of declaring villages along the Western Ghats as ecologically sensitive areas will visit Dakshina Kannada on January 27. The sub-committee
Moily to write to CMs of six states to examine recommendations of Kasturirangan panel report In one of his first acts as environment minister, Veerappa Moily is revisiting the Kasturirangan working groups’s report on the Western Ghats, which provided the blue print for conserving the bio-diversity rich region.