Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kamal Tiwari Vs Union of India & Others dated 27/05/2025. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Chief Wildlife Warden, Rajasthan stated that a high level meeting to review the progress on the demarcation of Nahargarh …
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has issued a warning to the hotels in the state which are without sewage treatment plants (STPs) but are operating 19 rooms. The court, in its orders made available today, observed that the permission to the hotels in A-category to operate 19 rooms was …
BANGALORE: The National Green Tribunal has directed five real estate promoters to stop construction of resorts in eco-sensitive areas of Chikmagalur district until further orders. With the government dragging its feet on demarcation of eco-sensitive zones (ESZ) in the Western Ghats, the order comes as a shot in the arm …
In a move that is likely to bring relief to thousands of home owners along Noida Expressway, a committee constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) has recommended that the Eco-Sensitive Zone around Okhla Bird Sanctuary stretch no further than 1.2 km with the DND flyway as …
LUCKNOW: In UP, the eco-sensitive zone around national parks wildlife sanctuaries does not go beyond 100 metres. The ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) says 10 km around notified protected areas should be marked as an eco-system zone but UP has not proposed marking more than 100 metres as the …
An NGT order declaring that construction within a 10-km radius of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary cannot be given completion certificates has left flat buyers and builders in the lurch. Adding to their woes, a 2005 directive of the National Board for Wildlife insists that 10 km is the radius around …
The first-ever Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment (CEIA) study of 38 hydro power projects in the Sutlej basin has recommended that the government should designate “the fish-rich khuds, mid-Sutlej, eco-sensitive Spiti, Upper Kinnaur area and 10 other protection areas as no-go zone for hydro projects”. The study further seeks to implement …
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has decided to have a relook at draft notifications for Goa's eco-sensitive zones. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had expressed concerns on iron-ore mining restrictions in these areas to the Environment and Forests Minister Prakash Javadekar. After the M B Shah Commission report blew the …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Surendra & Others Vs State of Rajasthan dated 03/07/2014 regarding mining in protected forest area/prohibited area of the Aravali range, Rajasthan.
Goa's development will come to a grinding halt, says the Chief Minister The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has written to States in the Western Ghat region including Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka to conduct physical survey of eco-sensitive areas in the region afresh and submit their proposal for …
Move comes Uttar Pradesh’s January proposal to notify 100 m around sanctuary Echoing the Uttar Pradesh Government’s proposal in January to notify 100 metres around the Okhla Bird Sanctuary as “eco-sensitive zone”, the Delhi Government’s Forest Department is set to propose the same. As per a directive issued by the …
COIMBATORE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his NDA government at the centre should reject the recommendations of the Kasturirangan committee on Western Ghats and implement those that were earlier tabled by the Gadgil committee, said renowned ecologist Madhav Gadgil, who chaired the Gadgil committee, while addressing a gathering at an …
The constructions carried in Sonamarg, the Meadow of Gold, which lies between Kolhoi Glacier and Machoi Glacier, are on without carrying an Environment Impact Study. According to official sources, a land mafia at work in Ganderbal district’s famous hill station, Sonamarg, is undertaking haphazard constructions in the ecologically-sensitive tourist destination …
KOLHAPUR: Environmentalists from the southern Maharashtra have demanded that the existing laws should be effectively used to protect the ecologically-sensitive Western Ghats. They have also warned that the further deterioration of the forests in Western Ghats will lead to the unbearable climatic conditions in coming years. The environmentalists spoke about …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Surendra & Ors. Vs State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 18/06/2014 regarding mining activies falling within the prohibited zones like core area and buffer area of Sariska Tiger Reserve or any other prohibited Zone or the …
Raising objections against Punjab Government’s eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) proposal around Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary, the UT Administration has requested the MoEF to not accept the 100 metre ESZ radius proposed by Punjab. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had recently asked the UT Administration to submit objections against Punjab’s …
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to reconsider its order on a blanket ban against 24 hydroelectric power projects in Uttarakhand — following last year’s flash flood — on a petition moved by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC). A bench of Justices Vikramajit Sen and S K Singh issued …
Real estate developers who have projects within a 10-km radius of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary here are using environmental concerns to delay giving possession, buyers of these units have alleged. A National Green Tribunal order in April this year had stopped all new constructions within the 10-km radius pending the …
Seeks 10-year phase-out of mining within wildlife sanctuaries. Govt rejects ESA specified for Cotigao, Salim Ali bird sanctuary. One km buffer zone for all wildlife sanctuaries. Proposes National Green Tribunal bench in Goa PANJIM: Goa has urged the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest to review its earlier notification issued …
Real estate developers who have projects within a 10-km radius of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary here are using environmental concerns to delay giving possession, buyers of these units have alleged. A National Green Tribunal order in April this year had stopped all new constructions within the 10-km radius pending the …
