The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
Land Use
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El Niño and health risks from landscape fire emissions in southeast Asia
Emissions from landscape fires affect both climate and air quality. This study uses satellite-derived fire estimates and atmospheric modelling to quantify the effects on health from fire emissions in southeast
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Compendium of environment statistics India 2012
This compendium published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is the thirteenth edition in the series and covers five core parameters - biodiversity, atmosphere, land and soil, water and human settlements.
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Draft Environmental Impact Assessment Of Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) In Gujarat
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; line-height: 20px;"><em>The proposed Dholera special investment region is likely to lead to large-scale
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Land use plan: NGOs spot 227 errors in two wards
Mumbai: If one goes by the survey conducted by citizens groups and NGOs, there are 227 errors in the existing land use (ELU) plan for two wards in the eastern suburbs M East and M West wards in Chembur. The plan was recently made public by the civic body. The errors were identified by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, YUVA (Youth for Voluntary Action), SMS (Stree Mukti Sangathan) and Apnalaya. “All these errors are in M-East and M-West wards, which have the worst human development index in Mumbai.
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Identifying loopholes, NGOs seek accurate development plan
Calling the BMC existing land use (ELU) survey “flawed”, NGOs have sought extension of the deadline of January 24 to submit suggestions and objections to the development plan (DP) for 2014-2034. At a meeting convened by standing committee chairman Rahul Shewale Thursday and attended by officials and engineers of the DP department, loopholes in the survey were discussed. “There have been omissions such as monorail and metro yards, nullahs and sewage pumping stations. A method to indicate multi-level land use must be devised and infrastructure such as transport must be mapped. Monuments on the state heritage list must also be included,” said Pankaj Joshi, executive director of Urban Design Research Institute. The projection of slums as grey areas without definition was also debated at the meeting.
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Bengal to have new urbanisation policy
State likely to retain land ceiling Act With the auction route for land allocation unlikely to help realtors, facing acute land shortage for new development, the West Bengal government is set to bring out a new policy for land acquisition, meant specifically for land owned by private individuals or groups. However, much to the disappointment of developers, the government was unlikely to dissolve the urban land ceiling Act, one of the key demands of realtors, said sources.
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Green tribunal puts Haryana on notice
The orders passed by whisteblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka as Director-General, Land Consolidation, continue to haunt the Hooda government. Even as the controversy surrounding the fast-tracking of Robert Vadra’s land deals is yet to die down, the fragmentation and privatisation of hundreds of acres in the NCR overlooking the Aravalis, including two villages in Gurgaon and Faridabad, whose consolidation process was denotified by Ashok Khemka on the charges of purchase by a business-politico-bureaucratic-police nexus has come under the scanner of the National Green Tribunal(NGT).
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What’s the (eco) state of the state?
The high annual rate of land degradation has assumed alarming proportions, draft report Draft Bhutan Environment Outlook, 2012: It will only take 72 years to degrade all the land in the country, if
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Climate change or urbanization? Impacts on a traditional coffee production system in East Africa over the last 80 years
Global environmental changes (GEC) such as climate change (CC) and climate variability have serious impacts in the tropics, particularly in Africa. These are compounded by changes in land use/land cover,
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Mine lease deeds of willful defaulters to be cancelled: Slathia
Minister for Industries and Commerce, S.S. Slathia today called upon the mining industries to pay royalty dues as early as possible adding that mine lease deeds of all the willful defaulters will be cancelled shortly. Interacting with a delegation of Federation Chamber of Industries (FCI), Kashmir at Civil Secretariat, Mr. Slathia said some industrialists have become habitual of retaining royalty due with them without any reason or logic despite repeated reminders which is causing loss to the State Exchequer. He said the Government will now act tough against all such willful defaulters.