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 …
A bottom-up view of the health conditions and services in six states – three performing and three not-so-well performing ones – was arrived at through a study by a multidisciplinary team with varied experiences in health research. This paper presents the results of a Public Report on Health that was …
With rich forest and wildlife the Northeast is known as ‘Green Lungs of India’. The region is one of the seven original biodiversity hotspots in the world, but most of its animals and birds are increasingly ending on food tables not only of the tribals who traditionally take such food …
Views of State governments will be accommodated, says Jairam Ramesh The Centre has decided to revise the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011, incorporating suggestions made by State governments to protect the interests of tribals and the sanctity of gram sabhas. Reacting to the parliamentary committee report, Union Minister …
The Railways have projected an outlay of Rs 17,495 crore for completion of 13 new line projects in the North Eastern region. The new projects taken up by the Railways envisage to bring all the State capitals of the North Eastern region barring Sikkim on the railway map of the …
The risk of there not being enough water in the stream — the ‘hydrology risk’ — is the “single largest risk” that a small hydro project faces, says a study of the rating and analysis agency, ICRA. The study went into the question of why small hydro projects — projects …
The report of the Hunger and Malnutrition Survey, which was conducted between October 2010 and February 2011 to assess the rate of under-nutrition among children under the age of fi ve in 100 focus districts of rural India, makes progress in measuring under-nutrition at the district level in some of …
The green bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court has imposed a penalty of Rs 100 crore on Jaiprakash Associates Limited for setting up a mega cement plant with means the court described as deceitful, besides a captive, thermal power plant without clearance. The court has allowed the 1.75-million-tonne cement …
Shimla: The political storm raised by the high court verdict quashing the environmental clearance to the 25 MW thermal plant of Jaypee Associates Limited (JAL) is set to intensify further with Chief Minister PK Dhumal blaming the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) for allowing a truncated project. Adding …
Newly-appointed Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary Sudripta Roy on Thursday confirmed that all Jaiprakash Associate Limited projects and properties will now come under the scanner after large-scale irregularities by the company were pointed out by the High Court. The Himachal Pradesh High Court recently imposed a fine of Rs.100 crore on …
CHANDIGARH: Days will be a little harsher in Punjab and Haryana this summer as their share in the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) run power houses has dropped by cumulative 150 MW. The cut in power share happened after BBMB implemented the Supreme Court directions to allocate 7.19% share to …
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a petition seeking total ban on the use and manufacturing of plastic bags throughout the country while citing the example of some states which had successfully implemented such a ban. The notice was issued on a PIL by NGO, …
Himachal Pradesh-based environmental organisations are elated over the recent High Court judgment against cement majors Jaiprakash Associates Limited for flouting environmental norms and illegally acquiring land for setting up their mega business ventures. Non-governmental organisation Him Parivesh that had filed the petition in the High Court had said: “The years …
In a double blow to Jai Prakash Associates Limited (JAL), the Himachal Pradesh High Court today quashed environmental clearance to its 25 MW thermal plant and imposed a penalty of Rs 100 crore for obtaining clearance for the cement plant by indulging in blatant “fraud and falsehood”. Delivering a landmark …
The enormity of pollution due to pharmaceuticals in India has caught the attention of researchers all over the world. This was due to the near extinction of vultures in the Indian subcontinent in the 1990s caused by diclofenac and a recent study in 2007 by Swedish scientists on pharmaceutical effluents …
Shimla: The 775-MW Luhri Hydroelectric Project has run into rough weather with the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests for river valley projects expressing concern over its environmental fallout in view of the extremely long head race tunnel (HRT) and reservoir, which will affect …
Himachal Pradesh Cabinet on Monday instituted a committee under the chairmanship of chief secretary to consider proposed amendments in the Town and Country Planning Act for regularisation of constructions. However, it postponed the decision on relaxing ban in the green area for new constructions on ‘sandwiched’ vacant plots. Stating this …
With some States defaulting on payment of their share of funds for providing meals to children in government schools, adversely affecting the implementation of the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, the Centre has now asked all States to consider adopting Andhra Pradesh's model ‘Green Channel Scheme.' The A.P. model makes funds available …
The Centre has decided not to grant forest clearance (stage-I) to any project without examining the documentary evidence related to settlement of rights of affected families. The Forest Advisory Committee of Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has made compliance to the provisions of the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006, …
When Dr N H Ravindranath, a senior scientist from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, addressed Himachal Pradesh’s top bureaucrats and policy makers here a couple of years ago, his warnings about the adverse impact of climate change in the hills, especially the farming sectors, had left many stunned. Himachal …
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh has moved a step closer to signing an agreement with the World Bank (WB) to avail a Rs 1,000 crore Development Policy Loan (DPL). The loan is a first of its kind foreign assistance for environmentally sound and carbon-smart growth in key economic sectors including tourism and …
