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 …
Even four months after the public hearing on the Himalayan Ski Village (HSV) was held, the government is dithering to take a final decision over the issue even though the report with inputs from various departments has been finalised. The secretary (tourism) who is the chairperson of the high-powered committee, …
Encouraged by the second successful experiment of the cloned buffalo Garima on June 6, the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) is set to go ahead with another experiment of cloning Changthangi or pashmina goat in Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh in next two months. The move to clone pashmina …
Shimla: Thousands of precious green trees will be saved from the axe every year with the state government approving new timber distribution (TD) rules to rationalise allotment of trees to right-holders on the directions of the Himachal High Court. Under the new rules, villagers will not be allotted standing trees …
Himalayas has one of the largest concentrations of glaciers and permanent snow fields. These are sensitive to climate change. Snow and glacier runoffs are important sources of water for the Himalayan rivers. Due to steep slopes, all these streams are potential sites for hydropower generation. To understand the power potential …
Horticulture Minister Narender Bragta yesterday requested the Centre to formulate a separate policy for food processing industry for hill states of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir, keeping in view typical and uniform geographical and topographical conditions of these states. While speaking at the first meeting of States Food …
Himachal High Court on Wednesday cancelled the allotment of 480 MW Jangi Thopan and 480 MW Thopan Powari Hydro Projects awarded through competitive bidding to Brakel NV in December 2006 on the basis of highest upfront premium. The High Court observed that Netherlands-based Brakel Company which had deposited about Rs …
IN A decision that would prolong a legal battle going on since 2007, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Wednesday cancelled the allotment of the Rs 6,000-crore Jangi-Thopan and Thopan-Powari hydel power projects to Dutch company Brakel Corporation citing illegal misrepresentations made by the company. The division bench of Justice …
This is the High Court judgment of CWP No. 2748 of 2008 on Jangi Thopan and Thopan Powari (480 Mw each) hydroelectric power projects in Himachal Pradesh.
Illegal and unscientific mining continues to mar the fragile environment and the scenic beauty of the hill state as the state mining department fails to perform its regulatory role effectively due to an acute shortage of technical staff, vehicles and other infrastructure. The ever-growing number of development projects like construction …
Water is becoming a scarce natural resource and there is an urgent need to conserve it, says minister for water resources, Pawan Kumar Bansal. In conversation with Yeshi Seli, he points out that the objective of his ministry is to act as a catalyst in sensitising people on the need …
Shimla: The proposal to rationalise wildlife sanctuaries in the state cleared the main hurdle with national board of wildlife granting approval with certain important modifications, including setting up of conservation reserves in place of scrapping sanctuaries altogether. The approval has been granted on the basis of the report of two-member …
Himachal Pradesh, which has its own peculiar environmental problems, needs to tread the developmental path without compromising with its pristine environment. Climate change and biological diversity loss are the two major planetary environmental threats facing mankind today and they are closely interlinked. Himachal Pradesh is a sensitive and highly bio-diverse …
No forest land will be given for religious purposes and transfer of forest land will be allowed only for site-specific public projects in the state. The policy guidelines, approved by the state government today to prioritise transfer of forest land for no-forestry use and bring transparency in the process, lays …
With the realisation that climate change was impacting resources of water, the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA), under the Ministry of Water Resources, has urged the States to make it mandatory for institutions to adopt rooftop rain water harvesting and promote artificially recharged ground water. The principle is to catch …
With the realisation that climate change was impacting resources of water, the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA), under the Ministry of Water Resources, has urged the States to make it mandatory for institutions to adopt rooftop rain water harvesting and promote artificially recharged ground water. The principle is to catch …
The current debate on decentralisation offers a partial and polarised view on the sharing of power to manage water. Drawing New Institutionalism as applied in the social and ecological sciences, the paper argues that decentralisation represents a complex adaptive process, wherein agents draw upon the activities of multiple actors and …
While there is growing realization that IWRM policy packages are exploited by various actors, there is inadequate understanding of the integration of these in shaping and reshaping water management. This paper contributes to this understanding by analyzing this policy process using Bayesian network tool from a case study in the …
