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 Patna High Court has asked the state government to submit a detailed report on measures taken to treat and control encephalitis cases, especially in Magadh region. The government has to file its reply within two weeks. Since August, of the 386 children admitted at ANMMCH, 83 died — the …
Japanese encephalitis (JE) has claimed the lives of eight more children in the last five days in Bihar's Gaya district, taking the death toll in the epidemic to 62, a health official said Thursday. The two children died in the last 24 hours and six in the last five days …
Rajkumari Devi is no astrologer. But with self-acquired expertise in agriculture she has become proficient in assessing the quality of the soil in her area and ensuring successful harvests. Through the experience of three decades this 'kisan chachi', as she is called, has learnt all the nuances of good farming …
Bihar is in the grip of yet another seasonal outbreak of encephalitis that has claimed the lives of at least 16 children in the Magadh division in less than three weeks. As on Sunday, the government-run Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH) in Gaya district reported at least 65 admissions …
Many parts of the flood-prone north Bihar are currently under a flood scare as several rivers have witnessed an alarming rise in their water levels in the past few days, setting off a quickened erosion of large portions of the river banks and making people scared. Major rivers like the …
A mystery fever is stalking children in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. As many as 47 children succumbed to the disease by June 29. Seventy-nine others, admitted in the two government hospitals in the district, were either undergoing treatment or had been discharged after treatment. The disease has been around in Muzaffarpur …
An alert was sounded in Bihar after two youths were drowned in a flooded river on Monday. The flood situation worsened in Gopalganj, Sitamarhi and Muzaffarpur districts with rivers swelling.
With the death toll in the mysterious disease rising to 47 on Sunday, the Bihar government is likely to declare it an epidemic. Under the epidemic Act, the Health Ministry will be empowered to take samples of brain tissues of the mystery disease victims. Six deaths have been reported during …
Priti, Nirjala, Sahil and Sonu, all three years old, Ajit (6), Anshu (4), Amarjit (8) and Shivani, just one and a half, were among the 15 children who have died of suspected encephalitis at Muzaffarpur
At least 22 children below the age of six years have died, and 35 others hospitalised during the past one week in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district due to a mystery disease, officials said. While four children died at the Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), three others died at the …
Ever since mango trees began flowering in both western and eastern Uttar Pradesh this season, farmers as well as scientists at the Central Institute of Subtropical Horticulture (CISH), Lucknow, are working overtime to save the crop. In the districts of Sandila, Barabanki, Malihabad in Lucknow, Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar, scientists are …
MORE than 5,000 people were lathicharged while protesting the construction of an asbestos plant in a village in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. On January 22, residents of Chainpur were staging a sitin outside the site to protest cancercausing asbestos when police tried to disperse them. When the protestors turned violent, …
With the asbestos cancer pandemic estimated to be causing 30 deaths per day in India, residents of Bishnupur-Chainpur in Muzaffarpur in Bihar are up in arms, protesting the setting up of a factory in their village. The protests are being led by octogenarian trade union leader Sachidananda Sinha (based in …
People in eight villages in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar have been protesting the construction of an asbestos fibre-cement roofing plant nearby since January when work began at the site without the mandatory environmental clearance. But they did not get a chance to voice their concerns at the public hearing held …
Watch this video that shows the villager's opposing the Asbestos unit in Chainpur village of Muzaffarpur district. The residents are worried that asbestos used in plant may cause respiratory illnesses and cancer. http://www.downtoearth.org.in/node/1160
This is a letter to MOEF mentioning serious flaws in the proceding of the public hearing of proposed asbestos fibre cement roofing sheet factory of M/s Balmukund Cement & Roofing Ltd in Muzaffarpur on June 28, 2010.
This is a letter written by local villagers to MoEF regarding the public hearing of proposed Asbestos Fibre Cement Roofing Sheet factory of M/s Balmukund Cement & Roofing Ltd. Proceeding was very biased and did not provide proper opportunity to the local representatives who had adverse opinion about the project.
AN 18 hectare plot straddling lychees orchards and farms in Chainpur village of Muzaffarpur district is in the midst of a dispute. A company, Balmukund Cement and Roofing Ltd, is constructing an asbestos fibre and cement roofing plant on the land. Villagers nearby are opposing it saying the company bought …
Mujrapatti and Laltenpatti are dimly-lit, they reek of an acrid mixture of cigarettes and itr (perfume). Most houses there have a nameplate. But these do not disclose the names of the people therein. They only inform of a dance performance: “8 pm onwards”. Outside, in the lanes of the two …
