Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
The one-time summer getaway of the rich and famous of Bengal is today ruing its transformation into a Maoist stronghold, the gnawing bitterness aggravated by the Centre giving it the short shrift while choosing districts for a pilot project to kick-start development and give the campaign against extremism a social …
Giridih, June 19: The villagers of Giridih are firm. They will not allow construction of any sponge iron unit in the district as past experience has shown that industrialists do nothing to check the pollution caused by the plants. After thwarting Shivam group
Giridih, June 15: Villagers in Mohanpur on the outskirts of the town today opposed the new project of Swati Sponge there on pollution ground. At the first mass-level hearing on the upcoming sponge iron plant, the residents also criticised the role of the state pollution control board on the issue. …
Giridih, June 14: After the district administration gave into public protests and scrapped a sponge iron plant project in Udanabad, it is now an NGO of Dhanbad that has joined the war against pollution caused by these units. A four-member team of Green and Labour Welfare said they had conducted …
Ranchi, June 8: Giridih showed the way. Khunti is following suit. Within a week of deputy commissioner Vandana Dadel freezing the salary of 500 Giridih officials for tardy progress of projects under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), her Khunti counterpart, Puja Singhal Purwar, today showcaused 11, including six …
SHAHNAWAZ AKHTAR Giridih, June 8: This is probably a first in the history of Giridih. Giving into public protests, the local administration today stalled the construction of a sponge iron unit by Shivam Group in Udnabad on pollution grounds. It also promised the villagers that no clearance would be given …
Giridih, May 18: They are political foes, but pollution friends. Putting behind the Lok Sabha election results, BJP and JMM have come together to voice concern over the rising level of pollution in the district. Leaders of both the parties today drew the attention of Giridih deputy commissioner Vandana Dadel …
- Company stops work, administration clueless SHAHNAWAZ AKHTAR A half-built water tank at Old Jail Campus near Barganda in Giridih. (Shahnawaz Akhtar) Giridih, May 10: In these dire days when the temperature is denying to dip below 40
Water woes This April is proving to be too cruel for Giridih. First, the unbearable heat and now, an acute drinking water crisis looms large on the district with two of its water supply centres drying up, thanks to the sharp rise in temperature and the absence of rainfall. Water …
Giridih, March 16: The effect of nanotechnology on agriculture could generate some interesting results, feel scientists at the Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih centre. Chemical fertilisers and pesticides are harmful to the ecology. Thus, the Union ministry of science and technology has funded a research development programme of agro-enterotoxic nano-particles and …
Giridih, March 2: Giridih is poised to become the first and the only district in the state to boast community toilets in its rural pockets. Under a programme initiated by the water and sanitation department, pay-and-use toilets will come up in five blocks of the district by the end of …
- Illegal mining and mushrooming sponge iron units spell pollution peril for Giridih SHAHNAWAZ AKHTAR Up in smoke: Iron and steel factory in Giridih Giridih, Feb. 24: For a getaway once famed for its uncontaminated ambience, this is a shocker. Rampant mining of coal and mica and poison fumes billowing …
Giridih (Jharkhand): The entire male population of a village numbering more than 350, including children, have deserted their homes in Jharkhand apprehending arrest by police in connection with cases of felling trees. They have been booked for destruction of forest and encroachment of forestland under the Forest Act, and some …
The two-decade-old land controversy involving a project of the Central Coalfield Limited (CCL) in Giridih has reared its head again. Seventy families, who had given their land before 1980, have launched a fresh agitation against the company in demand for a better compensation package. They began a blockade at Kabribad
Giridih, Nov. 10: If records are anything to go by, implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in Giridih has been worse than expected. The NREGA analysis report prepared by the district administration to find out whether the job guarantee act is being properly implemented in panchayats has …
ANTARA BOSE Jamshedpur, Aug. 3: Taking an initiative to provide clothes to all the needy people in the state, an NGO and a B-school have joined hands. Anshu Gupta, the founder and CEO of Goonj, a Delhi-based NGO, would address XLRI students on August 5
