Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
The Narendra Modi government’s plan to accelerate infrastructure construction in forest areas has hit a roadblock as the National Green Tribunal (NGT) rejected the Environment Ministry’s clearances to the states for cutting the trees on the basis of “in-principle” approval. In two letters to the states, the ministry had permitted …
Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry has accepted the proposals given by the Chhattisgarh Government and sanctioned Rs305.56 crore for projects related to construction of 10 bridges and roads, officials said on Wednesday. Officials said that Chief Minister Raman Singh had requested the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways …
Indian roads are continuing to record at least one accident every minute, and one on-road death every four minutes. The telling numbers as per the latest data for 2013 with the Centre suggests the alarming trend hasn’t been bucked despite the Centre’s efforts. Statistics show that there was marginally less …
99 rivers across the country to be developed; Approval soon Sutlej and Beas have been included in the ambitious project in which 99 rivers across the country would be developed as water highways. The Parliament is expected to grant its approval to the project in its Budget session. Announcing this …
The government has told the Supreme Court that banning private vehicles older than 15 years from plying on roads would not help reduce air pollution. Instead of banishing such vehicles, the emission norms should be upgraded to combat pollution, the Centre said in an affidavit. It also suggested that fitness …
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday observed that the Kochi Corporation appeared to be blissfully ignorant of its primary responsibility of public health and hygiene. The court also directed the Central government and the Central Pollution Control Board to file affidavits addressing all issues arising with regard to dumping of …
Car owners need not worry as the Centre appears to have dropped a proposal to scrap 15-year-old private vehicles in Delhi as a measure to contain the rising pollution in the capital. “At present, the ministry does not propose to mandate age limit of private vehicles because this is a …
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari has announced aid for development of new road network and restoration of roads damaged in the 2013 natural disaster. An announcement was made by Nitin Gadkari in the presence of Swami Ramdev at the Patanjali Yogpeeth here today. Gadkari …
The Centre today sanctioned major road projects with a cost outlay of Rs5,261 crore for Punjab. These will be set up on engineering, procurement and construction mode. The decision was taken during a meeting of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal with Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari. …
The Centre will soon bring 103 rivers under national waterways to give boost to the inland water transportation, which is largely under-utilised. Union shipping, roads and surface transport minister Nitin Gadkari said his ministry has already taken a decision of announcing 103 rivers as national waterways and the matter would …
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways wants environmental clearances for its projects in states along the border to be handled by the state governments concerned to avoid a pile-up of files at the Centre, or an exemption from green clearances in such cases, to speed up the projects. "If …
NEW DELHI: Railways has decided to power a fleet of 4,000 locomotives with alternative fuels such as bio-diesel as an attempt to move towards a cleaner environment and decrease its dependency on diesel. In a similar move, the road transport ministry too has claimed it will decide on approving any …
Come November and e-rickshaws might start plying on the city roads legally. Even as hearing in the case continues in the High Court, the Central Government is planning to relax certain regulation norms for the already existing e-rickshaws on the city roads. Union Surface Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari held a …
The environment ministry is likely to give a blanket approval to the master plans of major ports instead of clearing individual projects, a step that would help avoid delays that expansion works in the sector often face. The proposal was made at a recent meeting held by the Prime Minister's …
A final notification will be issued after ten days to allow e-rickshaws which have been banned from plying on the roads here by the Delhi High Court over safety issues, the government said on Monday. “A notification pertaining to e-rickshaw has been issued. We will put it on website and …
The government on Thursday decided to institute a committee of four ministers to prepare a framework for creating an independent environmental regulatory authority to monitor the compliance of green laws in the country. Environment minister Prakash Javadekar, transport minister Nitin Gadkari, power minister Piyush Goyal, and chemicals and fertilisers minister …
The government on Thursday formed a panel of four ministers on setting up a national regulator for the environment. The four are Prakash Javadekar (environment and forests), Nitin Gadkari (road transport), Ananth Kumar (chemicals and fertilisers) and Piyush Goel (power, coal and renewable energy). The Supreme Court had on January …
E-rickshaws won’t be allowed to go faster than 15 km/h or carry more than four passengers as the municipal corporations are working to regulate all aspects of the battery-operated three-wheelers. The South Delhi Municipal Corporation’s Standing Committee passed its e-rickshaw policy on Wednesday. The document includes a speed limit, a …
The government wants to quickly act on declaring the 117km stretch of Mandovi and Zuari rivers and Cumbharjua canal as national waterway in Goa to promote transport and tourism. During UPA-II, a request from the Centre for a no objection certificate (NOC) from the state government did not get any …
Extending the interim ban on plying of e-rickshaws in the Capital till August 28, the Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the Union Government to issue an executive order on its own for regulating the battery-operated rickshaws in order to “fill up the vacuum”, if there is any, in the …
