Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Andhra Pradesh is in a hurry to complete 16 irrigation projects on the Krishna in an attempt to turn a clause in the Tribunal Award in its favour. Andhra Pradesh is gearing up to complete 16 irrigation projects, including five ongoing ones, on the Krishna river within the next three …
a proposed uranium processing plant at Seripally village in Andhra Pradesh's (ap's) Nalgonda district is facing vociferous public opposition. The area's native Lambada tribals, local leaders and many civil society groups voiced their disapproval of the project at a recent public hearing watched over by an unusually large contingent of …
water distress: The Andhra Pradesh government has embarked upon a new programme to meet the water requirements of its parched villages. It is forcibly taking over private agricultural borewells to supply drinking water. Media reports quoted officials as saying that 528 borewells have already been taken over. The government is …
the cause of a fresh dispute between Orissa and Andhra Pradesh (ap) over the sharing of the water of Vanshadhara River has been put on hold. ap 's plan to divert the river water by cutting the right bank near Katraagada village, close to the interstate boundary, had enraged farmers …
nearly a month after the tsunami hit India's eastern coast, some districts of Andhra Pradesh are reporting incidents of water appearing in wells that had dried up long ago. The first such occurrence was sighted recently in Mukundapur village of Ranga Reddy district, where about 30 centimetre deep water seeped …
Even as relief work continues in areas devastated by the tsunami, the corpus of the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund has quietly swelled to around Rs 500 crore. The money is said to be the largest corpus ever collected through the fund. This is just money that has been sent …
the much-awaited report of the Commission on Farmers' Welfare (cfw), constituted by the government to study the agrarian crisis and suicides by farmers in Andhra Pradesh, has indicted both the Union and the state governments. Presenting the report to chief minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy on December 11, 2004, in …
Self-Help Group and linkage banking programme has come a long way from a small pilot project of NABARD to become a major poverty financing programme in India. Several organisations have participated in the country-wide programme with several models, but the essence remained the banking linkage through groups of poor women. …
although stories of suicides by farmers and weavers in Andhra Pradesh have been relegated to the inside pages of local newspapers, the scourge continues to haunt the state. The 13-member Commission on Farmers' Welfare, constituted to study the agrarian crisis, has started touring the districts. Economist Jayati Ghosh, who heads …
large-scale construction of dams is preventing sedimentation in delta regions, in turn making it easier for the sea to advance and encroach on pristine ecosystems. This is what researchers at the Andhra University, Visakhapatanam, have found. The most devastating outcomes of this phenomenon are displacement of coastal communities and destruction …
One day in September this year, Rama Bhadraiah had a windfall. This small cola supplier in village Nadikude in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district sold 50 crates of nine bottles each. Elsewhere, in village Bhaisra in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district, Kishan Katlam
the Andhra Pradesh government has decided to send hundreds of poverty-stricken farmers to east African countries to find employment in cooperative farming. It is making efforts to lease land in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and establish cooperatives. Part of the profit from the output of the farms would be used …
as talks between Naxalites and the Andhra Pradesh (ap) government focus on land reform, a roadblock is imminent. It is the Forest Conservation Act (fca) that prohibits settlements and even restricts collection of non-timber forest produce. This triggers local discontent that the armed Naxalite groups exploit to spread their influence. …
the Andhra Pradesh government has introduced new measures to check over-exploitation of groundwater resources. The Andhra Pradesh Water, Land and Trees Act, 2002 (walta), which was amended in August 2004 and came into force recently, regulates the drilling of borewells for irrigation purposes. The drying of borewells was a major …
for andhra farmers: The government has formed a 13-member commission to examine the agricultural system of Andhra Pradesh and formulate an action plan to strengthen it so that the high rate of suicides by farmers can be checked. The state's agriculture minister N Raghuveera Reddy said the commission will also …
This health study was undertaken to estimate the impact of pollution on the health of the community at Medak. Its findings show that there is an overwhelming increase in most types of systemic diseases across the study group, as compared to the control group at Medak District. The study group …
Two years ago, Andhra Pradesh (ap) and West Bengal (wb) imported a herd of pedigree cattle from Australia for a government cattle breeding programme. Since April 28, 2002, the cattle have been quarantined in Chennai. Today, only 102 animals are alive; 116, including calves born in quarantine, have died. Probable …
