Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Commenting on the government’s decision to give subdivision survey numbers to forest land encroachments, poet B Sugathakumari said that no Ministry’s decision, including that of Oommen Chandy’s, is above law. She was inaugurating a seminar on TSR Subramanian Committee report at the State Central Library Hall. She said that the …
Residents of Khaniara village lost right to carry out mining in March 2014 Residents of Khaniara village in Dharamsala lost the right last year to carry out slate mining in Dhauladhar hills after the state government failed to deposit about Rs 1.6 crore as Net Present Value (NPV) for 25 …
The field-level verification to demarcate Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA) identified by the Kasturirangan committee for conservation of the Western Ghats is set to begin on Thursday, amid fears that the government decision to earmark only protected forests as ESA would impact the move to recover forestland from encroachers. The panchayat-level …
A Parliamentary panel has recommended formation of a new committee to consider afresh specific areas of environmental policy after it found the objections raised by experts on the proposals of a high-level committee constituted to review green laws as "valid". The Standing Committee on Science and Technology and Environment and …
This report tabled by Parliamentary standing committee on Science and Technology in the Rajya Sabha has asked the Ministry of Enviroment and Forests to appoint a new high-level committee to review environmental laws Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests present this Two Hundred and Sixty-third …
GANDHINAGAR: A high-level committee, headed by former cabinet secretary T S R Subramanian to review the various environment laws, has observed that they are not actually serving the purpose in the changed environment and that they need more teeth to be effective. The committee has said that there is a …
A bill which will drastically increase penalties for those violating green norms is under consultations and will be tabled in the Winter Session of Parliament. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar while addressing a press conference on completion of one year of NDA government said that the bill has been presently circulated …
NEW DELHI: The environment ministry may have given scores of forest clearances over the years but it has decided on a definition for 'forest' only now, that too after being prodded by courts. The ministry has drawn two broad categories of Indian forests and included naturally grown forest species on …
Keri: Construction of Virdi dam in the biodiversity hotspot of the Sahyadris without any environment impact assessment (EIA) of the potential damage, raises a gamut of issues of state patronage to insensitive development and a need to look at natural resources as national assets. The Maharashtra government project largely envisages …
CHENNAI: Many state governments have given their comments on the recommendations of the High-Level Committee that reviewed environmental laws and all such inputs will be considered together by the Centre, Union environment and forests minister Prakash Javadekar has said. "These are recommendations...many state governments have also given their comments and …
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar was in Kochi to launch the Union government's Free Pension scheme. It will be easy to get permission for projects but tough in case of violations under environment laws and views of state governments on the High-Level Committee recommendations on the issue will be considered, Union …
Composite licences' end-use can be reserved, if states ask for it The Union government is open to changing the rules where states have to obtain a conditional clearance under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, and Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, before auctioning a mining licence (ML) or composite licence. Moreover, …
Nagpur: After the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Delhi, stayed felling of trees on NH7 on Wednesday, the deputy conservator of forests (DyCF), Nagpur, did not order a stop to felling, which continued on Thursday. The NGT's principal bench headed by Justice Swantanter Kumar, and expert members DK Agrawal and BS …
A Bill to provide for the establishment of funds under the public accounts of India and the public accounts of each State and crediting thereto the monies received from the user agencies towards compensatory afforestation, additional compensatory afforestation, penal compensatory afforestation, net present value and all other amounts recovered from …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in New Delhi on Wednesday stayed the working permission granted to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) by the state government for diversion of 49.246 hectare forest land for the four-laning of NH7 between Mansar and Khawasa on MP border. However, by now 3,394 of …
The government on Tuesday said that 11 rhino poachers have been killed in seperate encounters while 20 of them arrested in Kaziranga Tiger reserve in Assam this year. Replying to a question in Lok Sabha, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said in 2014, 22 rhino poachers were killed in encounters while …
The government has given approval for diversion of 35,867 hectares of forest land in a total of 783 cases in 2014, Parliament was informed Tuesday. "The central government has given approval under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, for diversion of 35,867 hectares (ha) of forest land in 783 cases during …
States have opposed a mines ministry proposal to grant conditional green clearances to mineral-bearing areas even before they are put up for auction. The suggestion, made in a draft of rules prepared for the auction of iron, manganese bauxite and limestone mines, has surprised state officials and upset environmentalists. The …
Goa Foundation plea states construction violates CRZ notification and Forest Conservation Act PANJIM : Work on the Tiracol bridge – the part that was earlier stayed by National Green Tribunal (NGT), Pune – has been stayed further by a recent order of the tribunal. NGT, after ordering stay of work …
In order to revitalise and better manage environment and forests of Haryana, the state government put forth a slew of demands and suggestions to the Centre, including early approval of “perspective plan of Shivalik landscape”, exemptions from rules and enhanced funds for sustaining the Elephant Rehabilitation Centre located at Yamunanagar, …
