Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
PATNA, 26 AUG: Basic infrastructure development is “very very poor” in north and eastern India, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said today while suggesting that time had come for revisiting strategy of both the Centre and the states for rural areas. “Right now the big challenge for us is north …
The needles shed by pine trees had since ages been a cause for worry for hundreds of villages in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh. The needles, which contain resin canals making them inflammable, would lead to major forest fires in summers, reducing trees to ashes and charring wild animals to …
In a piece of good news for the millions of power-starved in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday announced that he will not ask for votes in the 2015 Assembly elections if his Government fails to provide electricity to the villages. “I will not ask people to vote for …
Stressing on his Government's resolve to solve power crisis in the state, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said that biomass power plants could help in mitigating the problems of the people in rural areas. "As generating electricity from conventional methods is lengthy and costly proposition, we should look for non-conventional methods …
Agartala, Aug. 3: Solar power is fast becoming a part of life in Tripura with the government going all out in using the alternative energy source to power interior and remote villages as well as parts of the state capital. Altogether 45 remote villages in the hilly interiors of the …
Baleswar (Nalbari), July 19: A char island can boast of an interrupted supply of electricity, something which few cities or towns in the mainland can do. Setting an eco-friendly example and not waiting for the Assam State Electricity Board to oblige, the residents of Baleswar have embraced solar power to …
One day in October last year, the villagers of Wadia in Vadodara district close to the Maharashtra border saw light. Having spent months digging and setting up electric poles to carry power to 21 villages, they celebrated Diwali with bulbs and not firewood. It was the first time that the …
A 22-year-old entrepreneur is bringing electricity to villages through a technology that produces and stores renewable energy on location, reports Peerzada Abrar. Twenty-two-year-old Yashraj Khaitan finds it difficult to explain to his parents what exactly he is doing in a remote village in Rajasthan. One year ago, as a fresh …
Rajouri: District Development Commissioner, Rajouri, Saugat Biswas, who is also the chairman of the district-level committee for monitoring of the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY), reviewed the implementation of the scheme in the district. The officials informed the meeting that till date 57 villages had been electrified under the …
The Planning Commission, Government of India has set a target of 20 per cent blending of diesel with bio-diesel by the year 2012 to reduce the wide gap between demand and supply of petroleum products. This requires cultivating bio-diesel yielding crops on 11 M.ha to yield 13 M.t. of bio-diesel …
This new report provides a comprehensive overview of renewable energy market, industry and policy developments worldwide. At least 118 countries, more than half of which are developing countries had renewable energy targets in place by early 2012, up from 109 as of early 2010. Renewable energy markets and policy frameworks …
Most political parties and media have passionately supported the Supreme Court ruling in the 2G spectrum case, that the government should auction natural resources and not allot them or allow unregulated extraction (as in iron ore mining). The Comptroller and Auditor General has fuelled this public passion by estimating huge …
BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister for New and Renewal Energy Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said the Centre would provide financial assistance to states for grid connectivity to renewable energy sources. Inaugurating a solar power plant and a hi-tech horticulture and floriculture farm at Tangi, about 30 km from here, Farooq said several …
State Congress has claimed that 1,068 villages of the Shajapur district of the State would be illuminated with the electricity on the initiative taken by the Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi. Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president and MP Kantilal Bhuria in a statement here on Sunday said that a sum …
MUMBAI: The mercury dipped to record lows on several days this winter, but contrary to expectations, power consumption in the state didn't register a simultaneous fall. Rather, demand in Maharashtra increased by 1193 MW in seven months since the peak of summer. The state consumed 18145 MW of power in …
Fatehabad: The six-month-old standoff between farmers and the power utilities over the setting up of a 220-KV power substation at Samain village in Fatehabad ended today with both sides signing a “truce” document. After officials of the power utilities conceded some major demands, the farmers agreed to end their opposition …
Jatakheda, a small village in Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh is different from other villages of the State, as it has the distinction of being the first village to have its very own wind energy power unit. Jatakheda sarpanch Devji Mewara while talking to VivaCity said, “Having lived in darkness …
Calcutta, Jan. 2: Sagar Mela will for the first time get power supply from the mainland this year. Overhead cables were drawn from Lot No. 8 in South 24-Parganas to Sagar Island’s Kachuberia, 3km across the Muriganga river. “We installed five transmission towers between the two river banks to carry …
This report illustrates the changes that have to be made, both in terms of institutional and government policies to enable the state of Bihar meet its energy requirements. The report suggests that a decentralised approach based on renewable sources of energy would not only solve the prevailing issue of limited …
Some remote and inaccessible border areas in the state will soon get electrified through solar and wind energy. This is being done under the Remote Village Electrification Programme (RVEP) to be commissioned by the Science and Technology Department of the state. “The project will provide electricity to remote inaccessible areas, …
