Affidavit by Pune Municipal Corporation in OA No.32/2024 (WZ) (Anuj Abhay Deshpande V/s Pune Municipal Corporation & Ors.) dated 16/02/2024. The matter related to construction of new water reservoirs by Pune Municipal Corporation at Fergusson College Hill. Three new water tanks have been proposed at Bhamburda (Shivajinagar) Gut No 262 …
A check-dam in coastal Gujarat sweetened water and changed farmers' lives. Now, another change is coming, a cement factory over the reservoir and the villagers are on the warpath.
SANJEEB MUKHERJEE New Delhi: The four-month monsoon season in India is starting this year with rather comfortable water level in India's 81-odd major reservoirs, a big departure from the last year when reservoir levels dropped to record lows. As per the latest data from the central water commission, storage level …
The Committee on Agriculture present this eleventh report on deficient monsoon and steps taken by the Government to mitigate its impact on agriculture sector. The Committee, taking into consideration the deficient rainfall in the country during Kharif 2009, had decided to select this subject for study and report to Parliament.
On march 26, the Gujarat High Court gave detergent manufacturer Nirma the go-ahead to set up its cement plant in Padhiyarka village in Bhavnagar district. The court said the plant would provide much-needed employment opportunities in the semi-arid region of Bhav-nagar, but it should not be done at the cost …
Hyderabad, May 25: Despite rains due to the cyclone Laila, reservoirs in the Telangana region, including Hyderabad, failed to get adequate inflows. Osmansagar, Himayatsagar, Manjira, Singur and Nagarjunasagar, which feed Greater Hyderabad with 332 Million Gallons of Water per day (MGD), hardly received any inflows. As a result, the Hyderabad …
Pune Civic body asks people to use water sparingly to avoid cuts like last year At 20 per cent of their storage capacity, dams in Pune region have more water than reservoirs in other parts of the state. With just a month for monsoon, the civic administration and the irrigation …
Kadapa, May 10: Officials of the Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant (RTPP) are searching for alternative water resources to cope with water scarcity as the water level is gradually depleting in the Mylavaram water body. At present, water stored in the reservoir is 0.88 tmc feet and four power generation units …
There were 346 large dams in 1950: There are over 5000 now, over 95% of them are irrigation projects. 66-80% of water sector budget goes for big projects
Impacts of climate change vary from region to region. The 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) mentions that drier areas will be affected by more droughts while the rainfall regime, in general, will become
April 21: MPs cutting across party lines expressed concern on the depleting ground water levels in the country and asked the government to take immediate steps to boost reservoirs. Dhananjay Singh of the BSP in his supplementary asked water resources minister Pawan Kumar Bansal if there were statistics to show …
With an aim to supply water to the parched paddy fields of Pakur, the district administration has urged the state government to revive the Torai reservoir project that has been lying incomplete since 1998. Pakur deputy commissioner Manish Ranjan, in a letter to the chief secretary recently, requested him to …
Hazaribagh, April 5: First, the bad news: the water level of Charwa dam is fast receding. Now, the ugly news: the reservoir may be able to sustain life only till month-end. Originally built over 100 acres in 1954, the reservoir catered to barely 30,000 people in Katkamsandi, 5km from Hazaribagh …
S Sampath, Bangalore, April 2, DH News Service: The unusually hot summer has dealt a double whammy for Bangaloreans as acute shortage of power is now being accompanied by severe water crisis. A view of the Thippagondanahalli reservoir on Friday. dh Photo The Thippagondanahalli reservoir (TG Halli) responsible for providing …
Ahmedabad: To pacify agitating farmers in Mahuva against its cement plant, the Nirma Limited on Wednesday proposed before the Gujarat High Court that the company is ready to release 46 hectares of land for deepening catchment area of the reservoir. The petitioners, who are opposing setting up of cement plant …
The government has sanctioned Rs 87 lakh to develop roads, which connect Harangi reservoir, said MLA M P Appachu Ranjan. Speaking after performing the Bhoomi Pooja of a road development work near Harangi reservoir here on Monday, Ranjan said that four approach roads will be constructed for the convenience of …
Visakhapatnam, March 20: The officials of Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation (GVMC) have clarified that it could not supply any additional water to the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) as water levels in most of the reservoirs are drying up. In view of its expansion programme, the VSP has reportedly approached the …
The work on raising the height of Jakkalamadagu reservoir to facilitate water supply to Chikkaballapur and Doddaballapur, is progressing at a fast pace. Work on supplying water from Jakkalamadagu reservoir to Chikaballapur and Doddaballapur is proceeding at a fast pace. The height of the reservoir is being augment storage capacity. …
The occurrences of iron and manganese, in the present study was carried out from Manar dam (Nanded district, Maharashtra). Two sampling stations were selected for present study.
This article examines the movement against the construction of the Hirakud dam in Orissa. It is evident that the domestic resistance to the project was variously compromised by nationalist rhetoric, imperatives of state development and absence of transnational support. The Hirakud dam project has failed on all of its objectives
