East Godavari

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

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 …

Plea to search for water sources

Bhimavaram, Nov. 20: The Andhra Pradesh Rythu Sangham demanded that the government work out alternate sources to ensure water supply to raise crops for the rabi season in both the Godavari districts. The sangham district general secretary, Mr B. Bala-ram, said here on Friday that if the district authorities simply …

Food crisis stares at state

Oct. 28: A severe food crisis looms large over the state with the government deciding to declare a crop holiday for 75 per cent irrigable area in the Godavari delta in the forthcoming Rabi season. The delta, with over 10 lakh acres in East and West Godavari districts and considered …

Heavy rains predicted

Sept. 29: Hyderabad and other Telangana districts are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall on Wednesday following the formation of a well-marked low pressure over west central Bay of Bengal. Isolated heavy to very heavy showers are expected at Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East and West Godavari districts.

Scanty rainfall in most districts, Andhra may declare drought

Andhra Pradesh is facing a drought-like situation this year. The state had been receiving good rainfall ever since YSR Reddy became Chief Minister for the first term in June 2004. In his second term now, the Chief Minister is now thinking of declaring a drought in case the state does …

HC concerned over sanction of sand permits

July 7: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday expressed its concern over the indiscriminate sanction of individual permits to carry sand from the Godavari river in East Godavari district. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Anil R. Dave and Justice Ramesh Ranganathan while dealing with a petition filed by …

Chicken litter solves gas and power needs

June 22: Electricity from chicken litter and cooking gas from kitchen waste. Sounds strange? That

Drinking water should be priority, says Chiru

June 10: The Praja Rajyam chief, Mr K. Chiranjeevi, on Wednesday, appealed to the state government to give top priority to provide safe drinking water. Participating in the debate on Motion of Thanks to the Governor

Lack of community participation in the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: A case study

The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, among other things, seeks to promote community participation in school education. The programme has completed its first phase of five years of implementation. This article evaluates the working of the school education management committee in a tribal area of East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. It …

Reliance to begin gas production by mid-March

GADIMOGA (E. Godavari District): All is set for commencement of natural gas production from the KG-D6 block of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India

Potable water from air

Jalimudi village in East Godavari district will get 1,000 litres of potable water every day, produced from air. The water station, the first of its kind set up in any village in India, has begun trial runs.

AP farmers protest against SEZ; Patkar lends support

The paddy-rich coastal Andhra region is turning into a new battleground for anti-special economic zone movement. The ongoing agitation by farmers against the proposed multi-purpose SEZ near the port city of Kakinada has received a major boost with Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar throwing her weight behind the …

Bio waste causes concern

Rajahmundry, Dec. 17: Unscientific recycling of used plastic saline bottles has become rampant as the health authorities fail to keep a tab on their pilferage from hospitals to scrap shops in East Godavari. Plastic saline bottles with a capacity from 100 ml to thr-ee litres are being used to meet …

Threat to potable water in K-G

Hyderabad Dec 8: Several areas in the rich coastal Godavari districts are facing a threat of losing drinking water supply because of oil exploration in the Krishna-Godavari basin. Recent studies found out the salinity levels in drinking water in villages near the offshore operations points in the East Godavari district. …

Job scheme updated

Rajahmundry Nov. 27: In the wake of the increasing number of irregularities in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the state government has taken up an exercise to streamline its implementation by training field and technical staff and systematise the execution of the works. In East Godavari, …

Park status to sanctuary

Rajahmundry, Nov. 25: The state government issued an order declaring Papikonda Wildlife Sanctuary as a National Park recently. The government issued GO No. 144 declaring the wildlife sanctuary as a national park to be developed in an area covering about 1,012.85 square kilometres. At present, the wildlife sanctuary is located …

Vaccine to replace drops

Rajahmundry Nov. 13: The Centre has proposed to introduce injec-table trivalent polio vaccine in the immunisation schedule of children below one year, shortly. Unlike the present conventional practice of administering oral polio drops to children in the age group of zero to five years in the regular immunisation drive and …

Papikonda is a national park

Hyderabad, Nov. 4: The state government issued orders notifying Papikonda wildlife sanctuary as a national park. This became necessary as works were taken up in the sanctuary area for the Polavaram project. The animals in the national park will be shifted. Khammam, East Godavari and West Godavari will be part …

Iodine deficiency still plagues AP

Hyderabad, Oct. 20: People of the state are still unable to get iodised cooking salt of proper standards that helps fight goitre, retardation in children and reproductive failure in females. Health experts are sad that even on Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Day, which falls on October 21, no thought is …

Rodent menace in farms

Rajahmundry, Oct. 15: After facing the nature

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