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 …
A truly effective forest policy for India must be based on facilitating community-managed forests. The Draft 2018 POLICY undermines this instead. The government has recently released the draft National Forest Policy, 2018 (NFP 2018) for public comments. NFP 2018 intends to replace the National Forest Policy of 1988 (NFP 1988). …
All banking institutions in India may soon chip in to increase India's forest cover in a coordinated manner. If the environment ministry has its way, all banks will be asked to join the central and the state governments in their ongoing efforts of afforestation. The move will be part of …
NEW DELHI: If the environment ministry has its way, all banks will be asked to join the state and the central governments in their ongoing efforts to increase forest cover in the country. The move will be part of one of the 10 ways, identified by the Centre, to reach …
Environment related crimes in the country came down by over 11% last year compared to 2014 but there was no decline in states like Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Assam where the number of such violations increased over the past year. According to data released by the National Crime Records …
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Forest Development Corporation (UFDC) has been made the nodal agency to conduct beach camping activity in the state. For this, an area of 18.367 hectare of reserve forest land from Rishikesh to Kaudiyala has been transferred to UFDC to conduct beach camping on 20 beaches. The ministry of …
Dehradun: Incensed at the inordinate delay of eight years in construction of a road to their villages, hundreds of villagers of the Sarbadiyar region in Uttarkashi cut over 700 trees to express their protest at their villages not only being cut off from the rest of the world but also …
Mysuru: Justice Jawad Rahim, judicial member, National Green Tribunal (NGT, New Delhi) on Saturday said that if the state government is found guilty of violating the provisions of Forest Act or environmental laws with regard to development projects taken up at Chamundi Hills, there is a provision under the NGT …
The state government may soon make money grow on trees... The state government may soon make money grow on trees. For, it is planning to establish a system on lines of carbon credits, where "tree credits" can be given as an incentive to those planting trees. The credits will be …
A government official said that the proposed Dasna-Meerut alignment has been approved subject to certain conditions. The Centre has given its green nod to construction of Dasna-Meerut six-lane connector under Delhi-Meerut Expressway at a cost of Rs 1,658 crore. The ambitious Delhi-Meerut Expressway project, aimed at de-congesting traffic in the …
Integrates climate change concerns and promotes private investment and role in forestry The government has made public its draft National Forest Policy, to replace the one crafted in 1988. Incorporating consequences of climate change but entirely ignoring one of the three forest related laws, the Forest Rights Act, the policy …
To expedite clearances for State PSU projects Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi that special provisions made for Central PSUs in the matter of raising compensatory afforestation be also made applicable to State PSUs in order to expedite compensatory forest clearances for such development …
Seeking a review of the policy to achieve 33 per cent forest cover in Delhi, the PWD, in its letter, pointed out that Delhi’s population is expected to rise from 18.2 million in 2011 to 23 million in 2021. Increasing the green cover in the capital from 20 per cent …
Private companies can now take up nature conservancy projects to boost ecotourism on private land surrounding tiger reserves and wildlife sanctuaries under corporate social responsibility (CSR). With this, Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to announce such a policy. One of the basic aims is to bring …
The notification issued by the environment ministry says that the general approval to hold forest land will not automatically confer the right to mine it Environment ministry okays lower levy for destroyed forest land The Union environment ministry's decision to charge a levy for future mining at current rates for …
Even as a Parliamentary panel recommended in July that the TSR Subramanian report on revising and amending environment laws be scrapped, the ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC) is pushing ahead with creation of a framework on the report's recommendations. Documents accessed by dna revealed that the MoEFCC …
Rajasthan has less than 5% of the country's forest cover but when it comes to environment-related offences, particularly the number of crimes under the Forest Act and the Wildlife Protection Act, it is way ahead of other states. More than half of the country's total environment-related offences last year were …
Union Environment Ministry is likely to finalise the amendments to the six green laws by October this year after consultations with legal experts and stakeholders. Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said the recommendations of the High Level Committee (HLC) which was constituted to review the six environmental laws was …
The parliamentary committee finds force in view of experts The controversial High Level Committee report that reviewed the green laws in 2014 has been junked by a Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC). It found force in views of environmental experts who feared its implementation would result in unnecessary dilution of the …
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said that putting an enforcement mechanism for various green laws will be a priority of his Ministry in the second year. Advocating amendments to existing environment laws, Javadekar said that periodic review of laws is needed every 10-15 years as circumstances and technology keep changing. …
With the onset of monsoon, the forest department has come up with a two-pronged plan to counter deforestation on Kharghar hills and prevent unplanned tree hacking by local tribals. A massive plantation drive will be undertaken on the hills to cover the barren patches caused due to quarrying activities and …
