Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ramdevbhai Samatbhai Sanjva Vs State of Gujarat & Others dated 09/05/2025. The matter related to remedial actions to be taken for abatement of pollution of river Bhadar near Ahmedabad. Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has filed the response affidavit, March …
The shipbreakers of Alang are an exasperated lot. "As it is we are crippled by excise duty and competition. Then these Greenpeace activists make business tough for us. Shipbreaking falls under 32 government departments. How are we supposed to operate,' says R K Jain, operator of a ship breaking plot …
The Sardar Sarovar Project has been the focus of a long drawn-out conflict between the Gujarat government and experts, on the one hand, and anti-big dam activists, on the other. This is a revisiting of the principles behind an alternative that was articulated 10 years ago, but is still relevant …
This case study reports on how the various stakeholders came together to alleviate the problem of effluents discharged by factories in the industrial estates on the eastern periphery of Ahmedabad into the Kharicut canal that flows into the Khari, a tributary of the Sabarmati.
Conditions of water scarcity have been aggravated in Vadali village of Gujarat due to the persisting differences between higher castes, chiefly the ahirs, and those lower in the hierarchy such as the kolis and other dalit castes. Power relations are linked to social and economic hierarchy and the issue of …
The decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau is heading for India after being released by the Egyptian authorities. It is to be dismantled at the ship-breaking yards of Alang in Gujarat pending the Supreme Court (sc) decision on February 13, 2006, on whether the ship should be allowed to enter the …
The gujarat government has banned the sale of loose edible oil in the state from January 1, 2006, to check oil adulteration and avoid health hazards. The state civil supply department also imposed a compulsory fortification of the oil with vitamin e to improve the nutritional level in the state. …
the Gujarat High Court (hc) has severely indicted the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (gpcb) for the Kharicut canal pollution. A division bench comprising justices D H Vaghela and D N Patel observed that the gpcb had failed to deal with the canal pollution "with the seriousness it deserves'. The bench …
On 17 May 2005, the Government of Gujarat issued a resolution (GR) to bring wastelands under cultivation inviting big corporate houses and rich farmers – a beginning of corporate farming in a big way in the state. The GR has the provision of giving wastelands up to 2000 acres for …
Gujarat state has the longest coastline and stands second in mangrove area coverage among all the states of the country. Moreover, recent incidents of tsunami has strengthened the importance of mangroves as a shelterbelt which reduce the impact. This publication provides the insight into the history of mangrove forests, their …
stay on eviction: The Gujarat High Court (HC) stayed the eviction of about 38,855 tribals across 11 districts of the state. This came after the HC admitted a public interest petition filed by the Adivasi Mahasabha , which is a network of 43 voluntary organisations working on tribal issues, claiming …
Issue of No Objection Certification for construction of private air landing strip at Mundra, District Kutch, Gujarat by Gujarat Adani Port Ltd, Ahmedabad (30 November 2005).
Ground truthsWheeling-dealing for CDM benefits Close to Godhra town in Gujarat is a factory of the Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited (gfl). The mammoth factory has a unique claim to national, and global, fame: it is India's first project to be approved under the Clean Development Mechanism (cdm). It has successfully met …
gujarat Pollution Control Board (gpcb) served a second closure notice on August 10, 2005, to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ongc) unit at Piludra, Ankleshwar
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of State of Gujarat Vs Mirzapur Moti Kureshi Kassab Jamat & Others dated 26/10/2005 regarding prohibiting the slaughter of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle, Gujarat.
The Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (SCMC) recently reversed its stand on the fugitive Danish ship that is allegedly carrying hazardous waste and has been docked in Gujarat's Alang port. In a new recommendation to state authorities, it not only permits beaching of the ship, but also its dismantling under the …
a high level of arsenic is present in treated industrial effluents in Gujarat's Golden Corridor belt, it was detected recently. Department of microbiology (dom), Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, says arsenic is getting mixed with the surface water in the area. dom plans further analysis in the coming months. "We have analysed …
