Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of S D Loda Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/04/2025. The state of Arunachal Pradesh and Itanagar Municipal Corporation was directed by the NGT, April 8, 2025 to file their counter affidavits on the setting …
From atop the 13,600-ft high windswept crest of a steep, serrated ridge, the Samudra Tapu glacier is a giant blanket of ice and snow, covering the bowl-shaped valley between jagged Himalayan peaks in the wilderness of Himachal Pradesh. Gleaming against an azure sky, the gigantic glacier-the second biggest in the …
THE total seasonal rainfall during the year's southwest monsoon (June 1 to September 30) for the country as a whole was 99 per cent of its long-period average (LPA), which, being within plus or minus 10 per cent of the LPA, can be termed as a `normal' monsoon. However, both …
on september 22, 2006, the Arunachal Pradesh government signed three mou s with central power undertakings for the development of upto 15,000 mw hydroelectric projects. The projects represent about a third of the potential hydropower capacity of the state and will need an investment of Rs 7,500-crore according to Union …
A new bird species has been discovered in the Eagle Nest Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh. The discovery of the bird, which belongs to the genus Liocichla was reported in the journal Indian Birds (Vol 2, No 4, July-August 2006). Only 14 specimen of the bird, named Bugun liocichla (Liocichla …
A full-page advertisement on September 20 announced a ceasefire of sorts between Arunachal Pradesh and the Union government. The state government will sign memoranda of understanding (mou) with big power corporations to build hydroelectric dams in the state. The state and power giants such as the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation …
the Bogibeel road and rail bridge project on the Brahmaputra river in eastern Assam has run into inordinate delays. Conceived to connect National Highway (nh) 37 on the south bank and nh 52 on the north of Brahmaputra, the project has an anticipated cost of Rs 1,767 crore. It is …
The national policy on resettlement and rehabilitation for Project Affected Families 2003, framed by the National Democratic Alliance government in February 2004, was a wasted effort. A two-decade long process that started in 1985 concluded with a whimper, until the United Progressive Alliance government's National Advisory Council (nac) came up …
Arunachal Pradesh Human Development Report 2005 Published by Arunachal Pradesh Government In 2005, Moji Riba, an Arunchal-based documentary maker returned to the Apatani plateau to see an industrious tribe rebuild Hong, a town razed to the ground by fire, in three days. Labour, wood and bamboo
Arney Mising, Arney Hazong, and Angonibari are among the over forty villages in Assam's Dhemaji district that have dropped off the map. The ravaging waters of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries have consumed them. Several hundred other villages in this flood-prone district are threatened with a similar misfortune. The woes …
After 22 years, things appear to be moving at the Namdapha National Park in Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh. On January 20, 2006, the park management for the first time organised a meeting between the district administration, state forest officials, the Project Tiger director, and the Lisu , the dominant tribal community …
In November 2005, the Arunachal Pradesh government selected four ngos to run 16 of its 85 primary health centres (phcs). The list included only one local ngo, Future Generations Arunachal Pradesh (fga), which is headed by chief minister Gegong Apang’s son, Omak Apang. The Karnataka-based Karuna Trust, the New Delhi-based …
Bustling markets, multi-storey houses, schools, and places of worship: Yazali in Arunachal Pradesh's Lower Subansiri district is a busy village town with a population of around 4,000
We had set out early from Hornbill camp. After walking five hours, we touched the banks of the Noa-dihing near Firmbase camp: on the river's sandy bed was a tiger pugmark. Japung, a forest guard, quirky and irrepressible, exclaimed " Bhagwan ke moti jaisa ek bagh toh hai, Namdapha mein …
an under-construction tunnel of the Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project in Arunachal Pradesh collapsed late night on August 7, 2005, following heavy rainfall. Fifteen contract labourers got trapped inside and could be rescued only after 18 hours, by the evening of August 8, 2005. The state government, surprisingly, didn't know about …
function table() { var popurl="files/images/20050815/31-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=350,height=450,scrollbars=yes") } The first morning, I come across piles of freshly chopped wood in front of each house. An Apatani village is built on high ground and is occupied by hundreds of houses, stacked wall to wall. At places, the road broadens to accommodate a …
The range of ecological dynamics the Apatani manage could make a professional ecologist tizzy. But even more mind-boggling is the range of socio-political dynamics that the people of the valley deal with and yet remain distinct. Till a few decades back, the Apatani valley was cut off from the rest …
