Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Critical issues concerning environment and liability in the gas tragedy have evaded a solution Why was there so much public and media outrage over the Bhopal disaster
Mumbai: This Ganpati festival devotees may see a lot of eco-friendly idols, provided the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) certified process of idol-making becomes popular and good sense prevails among organisers. After experimenting on various formulas to come up with eco-friendly idols for the past three years, Pramod Vitthal …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Union Carbide's Bhopal plant was a polluter long before the 1984 gas leak, according to scientific reports presented to the Group of Ministers looking into the issue.
New Delhi: A fairer deal for victims has been worked out by the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal Gas Tragedy. It also tackled the issue of environmental clean-up. While a sum of Rs 300 crore will be set apart for the clean-up job, Rs 227 crore has been earmarked …
THE issue of mercury leak in the eco-sensitive Pambar Shola forest in Kodaikanal from Hin dustan Lever's thermometer factory was firs brought to notice in 2001 by factory workers and environmental groups. The company later admitted on record to have discharged more than 1.3 tons of toxic mercury into the …
NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to foot the bill for remediation, or cleaning up, of the contaminated site of the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. This is expected to be among the recommendations of the group of ministers (GoM), which are to be finalized and handed over to Prime …
A tragedy similar to Bhopal gas leak is in the making our own backyard -- Kodaikanal. A series of flawed policies in handling the mercury leak at the Hindustan Lever Limited's failure to p factory there nine years ago has denied justice to the people and resulted in f protect …
Ministerial Panel May Put Onus Of Cleaning Up Plant Site On MP Govt With Financial Help From Centre THE group of ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy, which met for the fourth time on Sunday, discussed remedial and environment issues. The ministerial panel feels that the Madhya Pradesh government …
The mercury level detected in freshwater (Pambar River) is 30 times higher than the mercury level recommended by US-EPA for freshwaters -- Mark Chernaik, toxicologist and scientist A site-specific target level of 25mg/ kg for cleanup of mercury in Kodaikanal is grossly inade quate to save the eco-sensitive Pambar Shola …
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday restrained the state authorities from proceeding further with the construction of any permanent structure within 100 metres of the Gomti riverbed. A vacation bench of Justice DP Singh and Justice YK Sangal also restrained the authorities from constructing any …
Villagers marching to the site of the public hearing at Madban on May 16. The sleepy surroundings of Madban and nearby villages in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra were roused to action sometime in October 2005 when the Government of India sanctioned the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP). The project, proposed …
Konkan villagers waved black flags and shouted protests at the public hearing for the Jaitapur nuclear power plant on May 16. Over 1,000 villagers who turned up for the hearing in Madban village in Ratnagiri district stalled the proceedings saying it was illegal. They said the environmental impact assessment (eia) …
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984 has damaged the environment so much that over 50,000 people are still drinking underground water affected by the industrial waste dumped around the now defunct Union Carbide Factory. "More than 50,000 people living in 25 localities around the Union Carbide Factory drink underground water …
The final report by NEERI on assessment and remediation of hazardous waste contaminated areas in an around UCIL in Bhopal. Certifies that contamination of soil & groundwater at UCIL premises has nothing to do with the 1984 MIC gas tragedy.Several studies were carried out by various agencies in the past …
Read this CSE critique on NEERI report on assessment & remediation of hazardous waste contaminated areas in & around M/S Union Carbide in Bhopal. It says that NEERI has underestimated the extent of potential groundwater contamination & that there is a need for extensive research on aquifer movements in & …
With an aim to prevent further pollution in the highly industrialized Sambalpur-Jharsuda belt, the Orissa government today allowed the Orissa State Pollution Control Board to implement the interim recommendations of the Nagpur-based National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI). As a result, twelve aluminium and power projects in this belt now …
Bishnu Dash / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar May 06, 2010, 0:16 IST The interim report of the Nagpur-based National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), entrusted with the task of preparing a Regional Environment Management Plan (REMP) for Sambalpur-Jharsuguda region, has suggested various measures to minimise further impact on ground level concentrations of …
Bhopal: The novel technical methods for ensuring availability of drinking water in the rural areas and increasing groundwater table should be publicised at the national level so that people of the entire country can take advantage of these methods. This decision was taken at a two-day state level workshop after …
