Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
It is ‘misleading’ IMD categorised some districts as normal: Pawar The Union government on Wednesday announced relief measures for the drought-hit areas, including an increase in the number of assured workdays under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to 150 from 100 days and reduction in the interest …
Despite Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s missive to the Centre for expediting clearance for raising the height of the Sardar Sarovar Dam, a crucial panel reviewing and monitoring the implementation of resettlement and rehabilitation policies and programmes on Wednesday deferred a decision in this regard. The Resettlement and Rehabilitation sub-group …
The State Government has decided to reiterate its demand for payment of crop insurance to farmers of 603 gram panchayats whose crops were damaged in natural calamities last year. Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Surya Narayan Patro and Rural Development Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh will take up the matter with …
With 99 districts across five states — Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan — having already been declared hit by drought this year, the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday decided to provide 5 per cent interest rebate for crop loans that will …
Apart from increasing nutrition of schoolchildren, the move will help to boost production The Agriculture Ministry has asked the States to include millets in the mid-day meal scheme to increase the demand for the cereal and, thereby, enhance farm incomes.Millet crops or coarse cereals are known for their high nutritional …
Consistent effort put up by the Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki to make the State a front runner in spheres of development seems to bear fruit. His commitment towards providing special impetus to Agriculture has been rightly backed by the Union Ministry as the State of Arunachal Pradesh has …
Officials said the aim was to ensure availability of farm produce across the country at affordable prices The Union ministry of agriculture has planned to ask for a Rs 5,000-crore budget during the 12th five-year Plan (2012-17) for a scheme to allow private companies to collaborate with farmers to produce, …
New Delhi Four states — Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan — have declared drought in over 390 talukas as so far and central teams will visit these states to assess the situation, Parliament was informed on Friday. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said …
ITANAGAR: The Centre has granted an amount of Rs 40 crore under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikash Yojana (RKVY) to boost production in agriculture and allied sectors of the State. Secretary Agriculture Hage Kojeen disclosed that after a threadbare discussion with Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and top ranking ministry officials …
The contentious Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Bill, 2011, which was taken up by the Cabinet on Tuesday, had to be referred to a group of ministers (GoM), as several ministries felt their concerns had not been adequately addressed. The Bill, which has far-reaching implications and ramifications, has …
Karnataka, that had sought Rs 11,600 crore assistance from the Centre for drought relief, is still waiting for the amount it asked. Deputy Chief Minister K S Eswarappa said here in Mysore on Tuesday that the Centre has so far released Rs 700 crore. The Centre would be asked to …
Centre mulling alternative crops The Union Government is looking at the possibility of replacing rice crop in Punjab and Haryana with alternative crops such as pulses, fodder and oilseeds that help in nitrogen fixation. The water-intensive rice cultivation over the years has become unsustainable in these two States and the …
With the monsoon not showing any signs of improvement, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday declared 123 talukas in the State as drought-hit. The decision was taken here during a meeting of the Cabinet. The meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, especially focused on the setting up of fodder camps …
Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister Kanna Lakshminarayana is a leading a delegation of farmers’ leaders, politicians and non-governmental organisations to New Delhi to bring pressure on the Union Government to make amendments to the Seed Bill. The Bill, pending for several sessions, is likely to be put on the agenda this …
New Delhi The Centre has sought details from the Maharashtra government about reasons for cancelling the licence of private seed firm Mahyco to sell Bt cotton seeds in the state. The Union Agriculture Ministry has also asked Mahyco to submit its views, a senior government official said. On August 8, …
Bhubaneswar: Close on the heels of the verbal duel between the state agriculture minister Debi Prasad Mishra and Union minister for chemicals and fertiliser Srikant Jena over the scarcity of fertiliser for farmers of the state, the district level enforcement squads of the agriculture department have launched massive raid across …
The Delhi high court on Friday directed a committee of experts to frame guidelines to prevent rampant use of banned pesticides in vegetables and fruits and submit its report to it. The division bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Vipin Sanghi sought the report from the committee by October …
As suggested by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, the state government has started an exercise to find a viable alternative for paddy in the state. A meeting of senior officials of the Agriculture Department will be held here on August 22 to chalk out a strategy to gradually move away …
For the last 12 years, nearly 5,000 farmers of Satgaon Pathar in Ambegaon taluka, about 60 km from Pune, have been engaged in cultivating the root vegetable. Most of them are contract farmers who grow potatoes for manufacturing wafers and sell them to companies such as ITC Foods Limited, Pepsico …
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Thursday sought explanation from the authorities concerned over the wastage of nearly 3,000 quintal of foodgrain in rains at Vadodara railway station earlier this month. On the basis of a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by one Ritesh Koshtri, a bench of Chief Justice …
