Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Naresh Vashisth Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/04/2025. Issue raised in the application is encroachment of land of village Amer which comes under reserved forest and "Vankhand Amer-54 of Nahargarh Wildlife Sanctuary." The Assistant …
the controversy over the Sardar Sarovar Project has turned extremely murky over the last fortnight as the bureaucracy kept up a strange game. First, on July 16, it got the chief ministers (cm) of the four contending states - Madhya Pradesh (mp), Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan, to sign a "consensus …
agriculture is undoubtedly linked to politics. The division of land and other resources, access to basic rights, prices of inputs and produce, wages, the acceptance of ecological constraints, are all factors that in the end are dependent on political decision-making. This is the reason why the key to necessary agrarian …
THE picture is getting bleaker day by day. First, the President of India surprised everyone by asking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to take over the reigns of the country at a time when the party's strategists themselves knew they could not have pulled off the game. The President had …
We now have a new government. To those of us concerned about the environment, it is obvious that the biggest challenge before this government will be to create systems of governance that bring about a healthy balance between environment and development. With a population ready to cross a billion, and …
THE struggle for people's right to all information relevant to their lives is intensifying worldwide. While some countries have accepted it as fundamental to the human rights issue, most - even those who have partially accepted this - have restricted the right to a greater or a lesser degree. No …
In March 1995. the Tarapur atomic power station in Thane, Maharashtra, hit a headlines with an incident of radioactive waste leakage into a drainage system. Reports of the leakage having played havoc with the lives of the villagers of neighbouring Ghlvll also appeared. Ghivli's inhabitants, faced with the continuous negact …
In India, the issue of food security has always been intimately involved with that of ecological degradation. In 1he late '60s and early'70s, the green revolution was introduced to increase food productivity, along with an emphasis on large dams, new seed varieties,' chemical Fertilisers and pesticides. It led to an …
THE National Front (NF)the opposition alliance (between the JanataDal (it)) and some regional parties)led by V P Singhcame to power atthe Centre in 1989. The JD'S environmental concernsone of themost 'politically correct' of ourtimesprojects village-friendlygreen image for the party. 1989: era of no consensus The party's 1989 manifesto said: "With …
The multicrore 1,000 MW Cogentrix the power project in Nandikur village air Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka. In the ecologically fragile Western Ghats - has been a centre of environmental brouhaha. Spearheading the agitation against it is the Dakshina Kannada Parisarasaktha Okkuta (Dakshina Kannada Environmental Federation). The movement has also …
Sources say caste politics has a lot to do with the current interest shown by Bihar's Janata Dal (JD) government in getting the 710 MW Koel-Karo hydel project through. Chief minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has close links with bhumilhars (landed gentry), who stand to gain most from the project. The …
VIRTUALLY routed in the 1984 parliamentarry electionsthe BharatiyaJanata Party (Bip) made a remarkable comeback in the 1989 and1991polls. The party also came topower in four states in the 1989-1990state assembly elections:RajasthanUttar Pradesh (UP)Madhya Pradesh (MP) andHimachal Pradesh (HP). 1992saw the four BJP governments dismissed following the demolition of Babri Masjid …
BJP's policies on science and technology (1991 manifesto) have come a long way from those envisioned in the 1984 elections. With a clear pro-urban bias, the 1984 manifesto had promised to evolve :ppropriate technology for Indian industrial needs", and develop high tech areas like -biochemistry, cybernetics, avionics, electronics, nuclear technology …
An agitation against the O"pur dam (at the cortfluence of Banas and Dal II Tonk district Rajasthan, has not @etl@, a sympathetic chord with the stake govem- ment The dam, which envisages providing drinking water to several districts besides irrigating 1.7 larkh ha of land, will affect 70,000 People. The …
"On Enron, a single message has been delivered: any or every deal will survive only on the strength of its merit and not on the capacity to corrupt us or that of threats by any super power," 5ushma 5waraj, BJP spokesperson, had said, rationalising the decision to scrap the 2,015 …
WE HAVE a perspectivebut nopolicieson environmentdeclares Sitarain Yechury, the suave Communist Party of India-Marxist (cpi-m) politburo member. Green causes, till now, have lain low on the election agenda of red partiep. The main thrust of the cpi-m's election manifestoes (1984 and 1989, particularly) has been on economic issues facing the …
The Pooyamkutti hydel power project in Kerala's Idukki district cleared by Kamal Nath, is another hotbed of controversy. Conceived by the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) decades ago, the project was to produce 700 MW of power by building series of dams on the PooyamKutti river. A KSEB report had …
Kolaghat's (in Midnapore, West BengaD 1.260 MIN thermal power project has been the bane of thousands who have been struck by silicosis due to flyash generated by the project; silicosis is caused by sustained exposure toactive silica' floating around in very fine dust form, which lodges itself in the respiratory …
AS THE party in power at the Centre for 45 out of 49 years, the Congress(i), with all its factions, can be held mainly responsible for India's achievements and failures. In the politically tumultuous '70s, ,environment' was attracting international attention, with the UN- sponsored Conference on Human Environment taking off …
THE concept of environment concerns itself with issues likewaterforests and podutionall of which exercise inutti-dimensional impacts on common people's lives. With the rising con-sciousnes;s in the fieldpolitical parties of all hues hageover the yearsadded 'green sections' to their manifestoes. Our analysis shows that the parties' responses to environ-mental issues are …
