Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …
ABOUT 27 per cent of the residents of Delhi, in the age group 35-64, are reportedly suffering from hypertension, or high blood pressure (BP). This could be an underestimate as, according to a study conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AHMS), New Delhi, only 51.9 per cent …
The Delhi High Court (HQ recently reserved its order on the import of zinc and lead ash skimmings after hearing a marathon argument on a petition filed by the Zinc Manufacturers Association (ZMA). The HC had imposed an interim ban on the import of these two items on April 22, …
HAVING learnt from past experience, health officials and the government are all set tackle the threat of dengue in Delhi this year. A proceedings of a conference on "Dengue outbreak in Delhi:1996", organised by the Ranbaxy Science Foundation in December 1996,were released by Delhi health minister Harsh Vardhan on May …
Twelve persons died in three chemical explosions in Delhi recently. Methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP), the chemical compound believed to be responsible for the explosion, is used as a catalyst for fibreglass processing in helmet-manufacturing units. Stabilising agents like di-methyl phthalate need to be added to this volatile compound in …
With a view to curbing air and noise pollution caused by diesel generator sets, the Delhi High Court recently sought expert opinion on the issue. It was pointed out that these sets were being widely used by shops in market places and industrial houses, reportedly without permission. The ministry of …
a contraceptive that has been denied permission for clinical trials in the us as it is a suspected mutagen (substance that can change genetic material), is reportedly being tested with private American aid on thousands of women in India. The tests are being carried out in several government hospitals including …
ON FEBRUARY 10 this year, Machu Dandavate, the deputy chairperson of the planning commission, underlined the reason behind a phenomenon which has lately taken the country by stem. Judicial activism - the intervention of the judiciary to stem the rot, especially in the field of environment and its protection - …
AN INDUSTRIAL estate in Andhra Pradesh's (AP) Medak district, Patancheru lies just off the Hyderabad-Pune highway. Save the electricity lines that snake across the undulating landscape and the unhurried public transport, the region seems untouched by the 20th century. But an insidious by-product of industrialisation has wreaked havoc on the …
THE ridge in Delhi (the capital's 'lungs') has been mired in controversy for the past two decades for its rampant abuse. This rump of the Aravalli hills, a discontinued sparse forest of kikar, babul, shisham, neem and eucalyptus, has always absorbed pressure from a metro that is bursting at its …
THE September of 1995 left its mark on the Kullu-Manali valley in Himachal Pradesh (HP) in more ways than one, While unprecedented rains and an angry Beas river caused widespread havoc in the hills, the aftermath was marked by the exposure of a tale of alleged corruption and nepotism. On …
WHILE the courts have played their role by increasing awareness against environmental degradation and ensuring that executive agencies respect the environmental laws of the land, the results have left more questions unanswered. In Bichhri, for example, the Courts had an opportunity to penalise the polluters with exemplary Cities and resolve …
On April 16,1996, a division bench of the Supreme Court (SC) comprising Justices Kuldip Singh and S Saghir Ahmed directed the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court to constitute a special division bench to hear environment-related petitions - and the nation's first green bench was born. The SC has …
Whether the SC passed the correct executive orders • The mum are not equipped to deal with environmental issues. They do not have the expertise, the material on the basis of which they can judge the effects of what are alleged to environmentally disastrous activities. - P N BHAGWATI • …
February 13, 1996: SC orders the closure of five chemical units producing H-acid, a chemical whose production processes have been banned in the West in Bichhri, Rajasthan. April 18, 1996: Setting aside a Central notification which had permitted development activity within 200 metres (m) of a beach, the SC bans …
• Greening of the ridge with indigenous species has not started. • Many vacated parts of central ridge are being used as garbage dumps. • Parks covering 310 ha of the notified Delhi ridge area have not been given forest character. • Chandraswami's temple in Sanjay Van has started encroaching …
Bichhri: where the earth bleeds People's protests had forced the closure of Bichhri's polluting industries. The court's intervention, which was late in coming, has not helped much, Bichhri remains the same IN BICHHRI, a nondescript village near Udaipur in Rajasthan, tile wells contain, instead of clear water, a brownish cocktail …
TO COMBAT the menace of increasing garbage, the residents of Vasant Kunj in New Delhi decided to approach a cop. That is exactly what Sukhbir Tanwar is, a former policeperson who turns garbage into manure. "I want Delhi to be green," says the former sub-inspector of the Central Reserve Police …
The Delhi High Court recently banned the import of toxic zinc and lead ash and their skimmings till further orders. The court was ruling on a petition seeking implementation of the Basel convention, 1989, which seeks to ban trade in hazardous wastes. India had signed the convention in 1992. The …
governments today manage a natural resource by first nationalising it and then creating a bureaucracy to handle it. But the method that was used in the past is precisely what all modern environmental economists are advocating, which is letting the people manage their natural resources and giving them the right …
The cycling junkets of the chief minister (CM) of Delhi, Sahib Singh Verma, came to a breaking halt with the sudden turn of events at the Centre. The CM has been pedalling hard on his bicycle to push for - payment of the dues owed by the Centre to the …
