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 …
Just two years ago, the people of P Yaleru village in Anantapur district had to walk several kilometres to get drinking water. According to 6 Sreenivas, technical director, Rural Development Trust, Anantapur, this area gets less than 550 millimetre of rain every year. Till 1992-93, only 15 out of 70 …
CHANDRABABU NAIDU Do you think the environment is important? Environment protection is one of my biggest priorities. We have a responsibility towards the future generation. My program mes like Janmabhoomi, watershed development and Joint Forest Management (JFM) will help improve the environment. With the help of JFM,,we are trying to …
the possibilities are beyond measure. From providing cures to health menaces with no cure at present, such as aids , to attaining global food security. Biotechnology has given humanity a faint taste of god-like power, symbolised in Dolly, the first cloned animal. It is the ultimate key to unlock mysteries …
chief minister of Andhra Pradesh N Chandrababu Naidu has recently warned that if found guilty for destruction of forests, the offending forest officials would be booked under the Prevention Detention Act. He was addressing a state-level conference of presidents and secretaries of Vana Samrakshana Samiti's (vss) in the state capital …
on December 13, 1997 at 3 am, K Ramulu of Vissannapeta village in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh heard a rumbling sound in the sky followed by a big thud. He found a heavy object lying on the gunny bag which he had spread on his roof. Ramulu, fearing …
The Supreme Court has allowed Karnataka government to go ahead with the construction of 26 crest gates on Almatti dam despite serious objections of Andhra Pradesh. The court, however clarified, "The work to be carried out by Karnataka at the dam will be at the risk and cost of Karnataka …
The field trials of US-based biotech company, Monsanto, on transgenic cotton "Bollgard' in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have, stirred a lot of controversy. On November 29, a group of farmers belonging to the Karnataka Rajya Raita Sangha MRS), a farmers' union, set fire to the first trial of the genetically …
A writ petition has been filed in the Andhr* Pradesh High Court challenging the establishment of the garbage storage, treatment and disposal plant at Dindigal in Hyderabad. The plant is spread over 200 acres. The petition was filed by Purshottam Reddy of the 0smania Univcrsity@ Hyderabad. He argued that the …
THE Union ministry for environment and forests held an independent probe into the controversial dinner hosted by the Telugu Desam Party members near Hyderabad. According to the findings, meat of wild animals is commonly served in some areas of Andhra Pradesh. This particular dinner was organised to celebrate state irrigation …
The success story of education in Arunachal Pradesh has been narrated by Purer Haimendorf. The socio-economic and political strength which Arunachal tribes enjoy has no doubt been the rock on which the edifice was founded and on which it subsequently grew. The strategy they adopted was based on the residential …
THE goal of universal education eludes India even though there is now a primary school in practically every village. The rate of dropouts continues to be over 50 per cent. The greatest casualty in the failure of our education system has been the girl child - whether in terms of …
The Supreme Court has directed the government of Andhra Pradesh not to locate new industries in the industrial estates of Patancheru, Bollarum and Jeedimetla in Medak district, The existing units are contributing to a large-scale water contamination in these areas. A division bench comprising justice V Manohar and justice G …
A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has ordered the closure of six polluting industries in Kattedan Industrial area. The industries are Vijayanand Textiles, Ramachandra Refinery, Anil Refinery, Bhavani Industries, Supreme Pigments and Jayadurga textiles. The closure was ordered on the basis of a report submitted by the …
This Writ Petition was filed in 1990 in the Supreme Court by the Indian Council for Enviro Legal Action & Others. against the industries and the CETP managements of PETL at Pathancheru and Bolaram for the pollution of the ground water and surface water caused by the discharge of the …
In the 1996 ninth general elections in India, water as an issue figured prominently in at least nine states. Among them all, Nalgonda in the Telengana region in Andhra Pradesh takes the cake. Nearly 500 farmers of the Telengana Jalasadra Samakhiya filed nomination papers, aiming to disrupt the electoral process …
THE hammer and sickle insignia flashes on fluttering red flags over 'Porattu Nagar' (township of struggle), a conglomerate of 500-odd huts in an encroached forest tract near Kanimerla village of Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh. Repeated attempts of forest and police officials to evict the encroachers failed. They retreated in …
GREEN has once again proved its superiority, though in an unusual field this time - pulses. Experiments conducted in recent years to find a suitable alternative to the less remunerative horse gram have indicated that green gram is more farmer-friendly than horse gram (Farmer and Parliament, Vol 30, No 9). …
IN ANDHRA Pradesh, woodlots maintained by farmers are the venues of social, cultural and religious festivals. In the northeast, much of the cultural life of the people revolves around events in the jhum calendar. Agroforestry has been around in India for a long time: the traditional practices have evolved in …
