Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
In a discussion with students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) on Wednesday, union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh revealed that the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) was not happy with the public hearing conducted by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for the …
Watch public hearing proceeds of a port project in Gujarat. See also: Public hearing of Pipavav Port Expansion, Gujarat -II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNBmqtIZfWc Public hearing of Pipavav Port Expansion, Gujarat - III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kZVNFyOtdc Public hearing of Pipavav Port Expansion, Gujarat - IV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpqIDk89c6s Public hearing of Pipavav Port Expansion, Gujarat - V …
The multi-crore Renuka Dam project is on hold, and 800 MW Kol Dam is also under the scanner of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. Hul (4.5 M), a private sector project in Chamba, is witnessing daily protests by locals seeking scrapping of all the clearances given to it. …
Guwahati, April 27: Gauhati High Court today deferred the hearing of a PIL submitted by Assam Enviro-Legal Protection Society, an NGO, alleging Rs 7 crore was misappropriated in 2008 in the name of cashew nut cultivation in Dima Hasao district, to next week. Justice Arun Chandra Upadhyay fixed the next …
Independent India’s first hill city has jeopardised the ecology of the Sahyadri Hills. Its developer and political patrons bent rules and circumvented environmental law while building it. Resultant landslides could endanger the city. Read this special report published in DownTo Earth. Independent India’s first hill city has jeopardised the ecology …
Jamshedpur, April 15: Vandalism by political workers this morning stalled a public hearing on pollution and green issues organised by Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB), as protesters objected to the venue. No sooner than the hearing began at Michael John Auditorium around 8.15am, 20 protesters led by BJP worker …
30 villages in Andhra Pradesh are up against a coal-based thermal power plant being built by East Coast Energy Pvt Ltd on Kakarapalli swamp. The contested site is a marshy land with at least 40 middle-sized ponds and a vast area used as salt farms. About 30,000 people depend on …
A village in Andhra Pradesh has become the epicentre of an eight-month-long fight against a power plant in neighbouring Kakarapalli. Following two deaths in police firing on February 28, people from 29 villages near the plant site thronged Vadditandra village in Srikakulam district to show support and mourn the deaths. …
Lavasa is a destination for the well-heeled, upwardly mobile, aspiring for quality life. The streets bear names like Thicket and Celosia (an ornamental plant); the village that the town replaces—Dasve—has become the Dasve boulevard. The town centre boasts a town hall that does not resemble any municipal office but a …
Sitting near her dilapidated hut in Mugaon village, 70 kilometres from Pune, Thumabai Walhekar (50) was furious. I had asked her a simple question—did she want township Lavasa? Mugaon is one of the 18 villages where Independent India’s first hill city is being developed. Thumabai spoke breathlessly in Marathi, her …
New Delhi:A day after he inspected the Okhla-Timarpur waste-to-energy plant, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has written to Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit alleging he had found serious anomalies in the project. Referring to the anomalies, Ramesh has said,
Project developers will have to demonstrate that diversion of forest land is essential, as per tightened norms of the Environment Ministry. The effort is to minimise diversion of forests. It is felt that developers often seek diversion of forests as it is simpler than acquiring non-forest land. As the number …
A public hearing will be held in Dehradun on March 25 and 26 on the subject of impact of climate change on life and livelihood in the Himalayan States. According to the founder and chairperson of Himalaya Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan, Uttarkashi Suresh Bhai and Arvind Darmoda, who are members of …
Ranchi, March 21: Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) will organise a series of public hearings between April 18 and May 6 in an attempt to address grievances related to polluting industrial units in the state. Through the first such exercise of its kind, JSPCB will try to gauge the …
Since I have made a commitment on the floor of the House and I have stressed the need to implement the Polavaram project with the full cooperation of Orissa and Chhattisgarh, I would request for your cooperation in the matter to facilitate conduct of public hearings in Orissa and Chhattisgarh …
Days after he was stopped from speaking against the government during a public hearing regarding the Jaitapur nuclear power project, local resident Milind Desai and 12 others were arrested by the Ratnagiri police on Tuesday for cases of rioting registered against them after an incident in December 2010. Desai was …
Read this special report published in Down To Earth on Nirma, the detergent company that gave false information to obtain clearance for its cement plant in coastal Saurashtra. Detergent company Nirma gave false information to obtain clearance for its cement plant in coastal Saurashtra. Environment ministry to inspect site and …
About a decade ago, farmers of 15 villages in Mahuva block in coastal Saurashtra could barely grow one crop a year. This was because the groundwater they used for irrigation was saline. Their fortunes changed in 2000 when the Gujarat government created a reservoir—Samadhiyala bandhara— by building a dam at …
