Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change regarding setting up a super critical coal based thermal power plant at village …

Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …

Centre-State at loggerheads over MGNREGS implementation

Corruption in implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in UP may be another point of tussle between the state and Central governments, already at loggerheads over various issues. After getting no exact response from the state government over repeated queries regarding the action taken against …

Constraints for people's participation in wasteland afforestation programme

This paper deals with legal, administrative, social and policy aspects of constraints for people's participation in wastelands afforestation programme. The present study was conducted in three categories of villages of Uttar Pradesh.

Development of biomass and productivity in an age series of Dalberga Sissoo plantations in sodic lands of Uttar Pradesh

Biomass estimation and productivity studies were conducted in 3, 6 and 9 years old plantations of Dalbergia sissoo in sodic lands of Sultanpur District in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. A set of regression equations for biomass production per unit area was also developed to be applied on regional basis.

Purifying water at point of use

Deepak Saksena, Country Director, AED (Academy for Educational Development) India, in conversation with Rakesh K. Singh on

Badal raps Kalia over pollution

Sultanpur Lodhi, July 24 Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has advised industrialists to desist from further polluting environment as severe water, air, noise and soil pollution has already crossed alarming level in the state. Badal was addressing a gathering at the ongoing eight-day programme to mark the eighth anniversary of …

Monkey business

in an attempt to save monkeys that have been experimented and then left to die, Hanuman Vatika, a money shelter, has been set up in Sultanpur, Gurgaon. The shelter is run by People for Animals ( pfa ), a non-governmental organisation, under the aegis of the Union ministry of social …

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