Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Contamination of aquatic resources by a variety of heavy metals is of growing concern because of health risk posed by the exposure to flora and fauna as well as human being. The vast majority of toxic metals are the waste products/by products of industrial and metallurgical processes. Other possible sources …
The objective of this study was to investigate the removal of reactive orange 16 (RO16) dye from synthetic wastewater by the adsorption on cocoa (Theobrama cacao) shell activated carbon (CSAC).
A report from Greenpeace, 'Dirty Laundry', profiles the problem of toxic water pollution resulting from the release of hazardous chemicals by the textile industry in China. The investigations focuses on two facilities that were found to be discharging a range of hazardous and persistent chemicals with hormone-disrupting properties. These results …
Mandated to create industrial opportunities in the state, the MIDC or Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation has been doing quite the opposite of late—winding up its own plans to set up Special Economic Zones (SEZs) that promised thousands of jobs and crores of export earnings. In May, it applied to withdraw …
Bihar Industrial Incentive Policy-2011 for accelerated industrial development of the state. In view of the rapid changes in the Global Industrial Scenario, Bihar Industrial Incentive Policy- 2006 has been reviewed with an objective to attract domestic and foreign investment as well as revival and expansion of business operations of the …
Child labour occurs across many sectors of the Indian economy, including in those which are tightly integrated into global production networks (GPNs). On the basis of an original study of the Delhi garments sector, this paper explores the evolving relationship between the nature and functioning of GPNs, the incidence of …
There was a time when people living along the Noyyal river in Tamil Nadu would freshen up by swimming in the river. Now goatherds chase their flock away if they go near the river. The reason is the river water has turned toxic. The dyes and salts from the industrial …
Even as state governments invest in social welfare measures, they are forced into constant competition with one another to attract private investments, offering a good “investment climate” that includes access to a low cost workforce and a physical infrastructure geared towards capital accumulation. The need to provision welfare within an …
The Department of Environment on Sunday fined two textile industries Tk 50.84 lakh in the Kalurghat industrial area of the Chittagong city on charge of polluting the River Karnaphuli. A DoE team, led by its director (enforcement) Munir Chowdhury, fined the Sunji Textile Limited Tk 22.84 lakh as it was …
On the basis of the action taken report submitted by the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB), the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has lifted the moratorium on new projects in Faridabad and Panipat towns. Capt Ajay Singh Yadav, Finance, Forest and Environment Minister, said the government had formulated …
ERODE: More than 100 residents staged a demonstration in front of a private textile processing unit in Sipcot premises in Perundurai in Erode district on Thursday protesting against the discharge of untreated effluents into open space. People claimed that the
Manmohan SinghPrime Minister Manmohan Singh has said a lasting solution would be found for the Tirupur knitwear industry, in trouble due to a court-ordered closure of all dyeing units for polluting the water sources in the region. The industry has said the only permanent solution to solve the dye effluent …
THE Madras High Court has ordered closure of more than 700 bleaching and dyeing units, and effluent treatment plants in Tirupur in Tamil Nadu. On January 28, the court also asked the state government to disconnect electricity supply to the units in the hosiery town that failed to comply with …
ERODE: Farmers in a few villages in Chennimalai block are facing serious threat to their livelihood due to the indiscriminate discharge of untreated effluents from the textile processing units into the agricultural lands. The continuous discharge of untreated effluents polluted the groundwater in Chinnapidariyur, Murugampalayam, Attavanai Pidariyur and a few …
Why did you choose public interest litigation (PIL) as a strategy for environmental activism? When we started Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA), the country had just emerged from a long period of martial law. People were distanced from the administration. We wanted to activate the administration and law-makers through judicial …
Developing countries across the world have embraced the policy of high economic growth as a means to reduce poverty. This economic growth largely based on industrial output is fast degrading the ecosystems, jeopardizing their long term sustainability. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has long been recognized as a tool which can …
In the textile knitwear manufacturing city of Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, the ZLD project in their CETPs was propelled by a judicial directive and launched with great expectations way back in 2005. After 5 years, there is no such thing as a ZLD happening even though the CETPs have been commissioned …
Four textile and dyeing factories in Gazipur were fined Tk 37 lakh for discharging untreated liquid waste in the Turag River yesterday. A team led by Munir Chowdhury, director (Enforcement) of The Department of Environment (DoE), led the drive as part of its 'Operation Prevent Environment Crime. The fined factories …
