Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Rajeev s/o. Krishnarao Thakre Vs Union of India dated 01/010/1014 regarding environmental clearance granted by SEIAA for auction of certain sand-beds (Sandghats), Yeotmal District, Maharashtra.
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Dilip Bhoyar Vs State of Maharashtra & Others dated 29/04/2014 regarding three issues namely; (i) improper loading/unloading of coal in the Railway siding at Wani Railway Station, (ii) unscientific activity of storage of coal in Lalpuriya …
Pune: Scientists from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) institutes, who recently surveyed the damage caused by hailstorms, have recommended raising of permanent windbreaks or shelterbelts on the windward side and growing genotypes to avoid failure of all crops. Windbreaks comprise a hedge, fence, or a row of trees …
Untimely rains and a hailstorm destroyed crops and orchards spread over 90,000 hectares in Yavatmal district in the last fortnight, official sources said. Crops of wheat and gram on 87,881 hectares of land was wiped out, while vegetables spread over 1,036 hectares was destroyed, sources in the Agriculture Department said. …
Resist Taboo, Fight Graft To Get Better Treatment Pune: Reshma (name changed) was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) during a free health check-up camp held in Satara, about 109 km from Pune. Government doctors asked her husband to start treatment immediately. The man first refused to accept that his wife has …
Yavatmal, Aurangabad and Kolhapur territorial circles have reported huge economic losses due to man-wildlife conflict. Now, Yavatmal circle has taken lead to formulate a strategy to minimize these losses by adopting preventive measures. Yavatmal circle had organised first such workshop for its officers and staff on December 14 and 15. …
Pune: The western bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered that notices be issued to the collectors of 12 districts to seek their response to a petition that alleges that they have failed to provide clean drinking water to the people. The bench of Justice V R Kingaonkar …
Taking cognisance of potable water contamination in 12 districts of Maharashtra, National Green Tribunal led by Justice V R Kingaonkar and Justice Dr Ajay Desphande issued notices to 12 collectors, secretary of health ministry and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) asking them to submit a time-bound action plan to address …
In a setback to the then state revenue minister Narayan Rane, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court quashed his order of refunding Rs 6.50 lakh to a private contractor from the government's coffers in the case of alleged illegal mining of metal and murum in Yavatmal. Rajnikant Borile and …
A study of various pollutions in the district and factors that attribute to air pollution has been taken up by a panel of scientists from NEERI and IIT Mumbai, to work out a sustainable solution to the issue. Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) would prepare an action plan based on …
At a time when tigers are crying for inviolate spaces - and forestry concepts are changing in the advent of climate change and carbon credits- demand for 63,000 hectare (630 sq km) reserve forest area by the Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra (FDCM), a wholly state government owned company engaged …
At least 20 persons have lost their lives while more than 5,000 have to be evacuated from low-lying areas of Chandrapur district in Maharashtra following heavy rain. According to the disaster management cell, 5,204 persons have been evacuated with more than 2,000 shifted to relief camps set up in government …
Letter from State Level Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC), Maharashtra to Collector, Yavatmal regarding environmental clearance for stone quarry proposals dated 26th June, 2013.
Over 13 lakh trees have been illegally cut in state-owned forests since 2005, depriving Maharashtra of its precious forest wealth. The number of felled trees could be a miniscule fraction of the total tree strength in the state's forests, it is a worrisome drop nonetheless, say forest officials and activists. …
Pune: The state government has decided to set up water testing labs at district and sub-district hospitals across the state to provide safe drinking water in rural areas. As part of this initiative, the state health department will set up 137 labs at the cost of Rs 15 crore. The …
A faulty design was the ostensible reason for the cost of the Nerdhamana irrigation project in Akola district to skyrocket from an initial estimate of Rs 181 crore to Rs 638 crore. State governor K Sankaranarayanan visited the project site on the Purna river earlier this month to supervise work. …
The controversial white paper on irrigation projects produced by the state water resources ministry is littered with outdated, confusing and allegedly misleading statistics. Data pertaining to over half a dozen major projects are at least a decade old and widely differ from information submitted by the ministry to the state …
Over 10,000 villages and 15 of Maharashtra's 35 districts face a drought-like situation. Malti Palvi, a 27-year-old housewife from Sakhare, a village in Thane district around 80 km from Mumbai, stands in a queue to take water from a nearby well at 6 a.m. Her turn comes only after 2 …
This paper traces the political economy of irrigation development, and the issues of regional imbalances created by the process of allocation of development resources based on regional power bases, rather than equity or need. Irrigation development in Maharashtra is taken as a case in point.
It is not just about large-scale financial and political irregularities. Maharashtra’s irrigation scam has put a question mark on the validity of the state’s high-cost irrigation policy itself. Under this policy very little irrigated area has been created in the state despite hundreds of dams being constructed and thousands of …
