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 …
Centre urged to reject ‘anti-farmer’ recommendations The State Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution urging the Union government to reject the “anti-farmer” recommendations of the Kasturirangan Committee, besides totally exempting thickly populated centres and agriculture land while identifying Ecologically Sensitive Areas, taking into consideration the apprehension of the people. …
Chandy To Hold Talks With Union Minister Veerappa Moily Today Assuaging the concerns of those staying in the high ranges, the Prime Minister’s Office informed the state government on Thursday that a final decision on Kasturirangan committee report would be taken only after the ministry of environment and forests incorporated …
The petroleum ministry has asked the environment and forest ministry to expedite determining the extent of protected Gulf of Mannar biosphere reserve that overlaps with a Cauvery offshore block which was awarded to Canada-based Bengal Energy International more than four years ago. The ministry had sought the environment ministry’s opinion …
Delhi government’s environment department has reservations about the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) draft regional plan 2021. It has raised concerns about a provision in the plan that may facilitate tourism and development activities in the Aravalis, Yamuna river bed and other ecologically sensitive areas. Sanjiv Kumar, environment secretary, …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Haryana government not to issue any colony development licences, change of land use or acquire any lands until its sub-regional plan for the 11 districts falling in the National Capital Region (NCR) is approved by the NCR Planning Board. The order …
Coffee planters in Karnataka's Kodagu district are an apprehensive lot. They believe the acceptance of the Kasturirangan report to conserve Western Ghats will make them helplessly watch their disease-afflicted crop wither away for it bans the use of pesticides in their area. They feel they may not be able to …
Three Key Words In Proposal To Decide Fate Of Green Zone New Delhi: The fate of eco-sensitive areas including the Aravallis, riverbeds and water bodies now depends on the three crucial words — “including tourism” and “except” — which the NCR Planning Board (NCRPB) is likely to introduce in the …
Environment minister M Veerappa Moily will soon write to chief ministers of six states asking them to send their suggestions on the controversial Kasturirangan committee report which had recommended prohibiting certain activities like mining, setting up polluting industries and big constructions in around 60,000 sq km area across these states …
The proposals sent by States are not demarcated scientifically The Ministry of Environment and Forests has decided to return the Ecologically Sensitive Zone (ESZ) proposals sent by various States as many of them are not demarcated scientifically. States will have to rework the proposals and resubmit them. Ministry sources said …
Moily approves two power projects, two coal mines, a port in Andhra and an oil pipeline from Chennai port Environment and forests minister M Veerappa Moily cleared six long-stalled infrastructure projects worth . 19,000 crore in the first eight days of 2014, signalling his intent that crucial industry projects will …
The State Cabinet sub-committee on Western Ghats, on Thursday, resolved to hold the rights to review the red industries mentioned in the Kasturirangan report. In a meeting chaired by Forest and Environment Minister, Ramanath Rai, the sub-committee took the decision to review the State-owned red industries set up in the …
The revised draft policy on inspection, verification, monitoring and overall procedure relating to grant of forest clearances and identification of forests released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). RELATED CONTENT Policy: Draft policy on inspection, verification, monitoring and the overall procedure relating to the grant of forest clearances …
The three-member expert committee seems to have gone soft on planters and estate owners exempting plantations from ecologically sensitive areas (ESAs) which may proves disastrous for ecological conservation in the long run. Environmentalists point out that the Kerala’s green canopy is not just because of forests areas but it also …
It may be left for the next govt to take a call on the Kasturirangan panel's recommendations With the Lok Sabha elections around the corner and the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s second term in office nearing a close, the controversial Kasturirangan committee report on Western Ghats appears to be …
Draft Notification declaring an area of 2 kms from north to south all along the western boundary of the Pulicat Bird Sanctuary in the State of Andhra Pradesh as an eco-sensitive zone.
Panel asks RIL to submit additional material to ascertain project’s impact on environment as it fears serious threat to marine life in the vicinity Veerappa Moily may have to deal with a Reliance problem again, this time in the environment ministry. Reliance Industries’ expansion plan for its facilities at the …
As only 19 mines have started iron ore production, supply still not sufficient to meet raw material requirement of steel industry The year 2014 is set to herald better days for the ore-starved steel industry in Karnataka. The Supreme Court appointed Monitoring Committee to oversee E-auction of iron ore in …
Madhav Gadgil, eminent ecologist, has alleged that 1,700 illegal quarries are operating in the crest line of sensitive areas of the Western Ghats in Kerala. Dr. Gadgil, who had chaired the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, the report of which led to an uproar in the State, was speaking at …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday described the Gadgil panel report on the Western Ghats as the “roadmap” for conservation of the ecologically-sensitive hills and hoped it could be resurrected for a “dispassionate debate” once the heat and dust of the next Lok Sabha elections settled. Speaking at …
‘Implementation of Kasturirangan panel report will hit 40 lakh people in Kerala’ Western Ghats People’s Protection Forum has approached the National Green Tribunal (NGT) here seeking to quash the recent notification of Union Ministry of Environment of Forests (MoEF) to implement suggestions of the Kasturirangan panel on Western Ghats conservation. …
