Report filed by the Additional Secretary, Local Self Government Department, Kerala in the matter of Tribunal on its own motion Suo Motu based on the report dated 26.06.2023 received from Hon’ble Justice A.V. Ramakrishna Pillai on the Present Status of Waste dump site at Cubaloor in Mangalpady Panchayat, Kasargod District, …
Dehradun: In a major boost to the village panchayats, which is the lowest rung of the three-tier Panchayati Raj system, the Uttarakhand government on Wednesday received a sanction of Rs 2,000 crore from the Centre for developing infrastructure in over 10,000 villages.The funds, sanctioned by the Union Panchayati Raj Ministry, …
MARGAO: At a public meeting held at the Colva panchayat, the Colva sarpanch Snowkon Gonsavles said the garbage issue can be thoroughly solved only when the pancahyat manages to get suitable land in the village for the same. Given that the waste management issue was the predominant topic raised by …
For the first time in Vagurampatti village panchayat, workers called, ‘Thuimai Kavalargal’, visit each household and involve in door-to-door collection of garbage and segregate it and dump in yards. Inaugurated by Collector V. Dakshinamoorthy in the presence of District Rural Development Authority Project Director C. Malathi, the solid waste management …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Ajay Kumar Negi & Ors. Vs Union of India & Ors. dated 07/07/2015 regarding settiing up of the Tidong - I Hydro Electric Power Project (100 MW) in District Kinnaur of Himachal Pradesh on River Tidong.
Regularizing apartment complexes and commercial buildings that have violated coastal regulation zone (CRZ) norms, a Central act, will not be easy for Maradu municipal authorities. According to municipal officials, who are experts in Kerala Municipal Building Rules (KMBR), they can only regularize buildings that have violated plan norms, and don't …
TISS survey throws up alarming results. While only six per cent surveyed schools in rural Maharashtra had some basic provision for assisting children with special needs in the toilets, of the 97.8 per cent schools that had toilets, just 62.2 per cent were functional at the time of survey, reveals …
The district administration has identified all the 1,600-odd lakes for which Bengaluru was once known as the ‘City of Thousand Lakes’. But 85 per cent of these lakes are now completely dead as buildings and concrete structures stand on them. For almost a month, the district administration was busy conducting …
Sarpanch says the panchayat will cancel the NOC if the GSPCB revokes the licence OLD GOA: Seeking to wash its hands off the 4G mobile tower issue that rocked the village over the past few months, Goa Velha Sarpanch Jagdish Bhobe stated that the panchayat issued the license based on …
The Rs. 20,000 crore Namami Gange project is spread over five years and covers 41 tributaries of Ganga. Rs. 7272 crore has been set aside for interventions in existing, defunct projects while Rs. 12,728 crore has been allocated for new initiatives. This is a four-fold increase since the new government …
‘EOs told to coordinate with PDOs to deal with the situation’ Areas in as many as 31 Gram Panchayats (GPs) are facing water scarcity in Udupi district. After holding a meeting of Executive Officers (EOs) of the three taluk panchayats of Udupi, Karkala and Kundapur and reviewing the drinking water …
One of the questions raised was the details of district-wise expenditure of crores of rupees being provided by the World Bank for ‘Mid Himalayan Projects’ in 2013-14 in Himachal Pradesh.
In a commendable initiative, villagers of three panchayats in Pali have come together and unanimously agreed to form a community reserve to protect the leopard. The draft notification of 'Jawai Bandh Leopard Community Reserve - T' is awaiting nod from the government. Once notified, it would be the largest community …
To be launched on May 1, works taken up for creation of facilities Soon, villagers will get to dispose household garbage in the way it should be. As part of efforts to take solid waste management to rural Vellore and ensure sanitation, the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) has taken …
2,000 panchayats to be covered in Phase I in State In the wake of the State Government announcing a phased implementation of solid waste management project in village panchayats in the State, the administration has selected 30 panchayats in the district to implement the project. The Government had proposed to …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Cavelossim Villagers Forum Vs Village Panchayat of Cavelossim dated 08/04/2015 regarding Balaji Concept project at Cavelossim. According to the Original Applicant, the project would cause harm to water bodies, fishing ponds, channels and nullahs and therefore, …
Contrary to Forest Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan’s claim, the state government has no clarity over which areas of the 123 Western Ghats villages are ecologically sensitive, widespread discrepencies in the areas identified by various committees as forests to be demarcated as ecologically sensitive areas (ESAs) suggest. As per the March 10, …
Wadgaon Kohlati gram panchayat has filed a writ petition in the Aurangabad bench of Bombay high court after the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) refused to manage garbage from April 1. Following the petition, the court on Monday issued notices to the Aurangabad district collector and the chief executive officer …
The 30-month closure of mining operations has dented the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) bringing it down to 7.7 per cent during the financial year 2013-14, from 20.20 per cent in 2011-12, according to the Economic Survey 2014-15 tabled in the Goa Assembly on 24 March 2015. However, the 7.7 …
Kerala may be the first State to have Biodiversity Management Committees (BMC) in all local self-government institutions, but most of the committees are not functional and remain only on paper, mainly due to the lack of awareness about its mandate and responsibilities. The Kerala Grama Panchayat Association feels that BMCs …
The Haryana Renewable Energy Department (HAREDA) has fixed a target to generate 450 MW solar power by using rooftops of various buildings in the next four years. The government has already made it mandatory for all buildings having 500 sq ft and above rooftop space to go for solar power …
