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 first stage of nuclear programme is way behind schedule and is mired in controversies, but the second stage seems to have more problems in store. When the Union cabinet sat down on September 2 last year to approve the construction of a 500 MW prototype fast breeder reactor in …
gujarat is witnessing a trend that instantiates how socio-economic movements often don't reach their logical conclusions. Tracts earmarked for landless farmers under the bhoodan programme are being used to construct residential and commercial complexes in the state. The state government has initiated action against private builders for such misuse of …
although Gujarat continues to be engulfed by the Sardar Sarovar dam controversy, yet the state government has embarked on an even more ambitious mega venture that throws up several environmental concerns. On February 5, chief minister (cm) Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Rs 54,000-crore Kalpasar multi-purpose tidal …
Strong political pressure is being brought to bear on Maharashtra to agree that the height of the Narmada dam should be increased. The state had objected to the move because it had not completed the rehabilitation exercise. The Narmada Control Authority, therefore, deferred the decision until a spot assessment was …
The Digvijay Singh government in Madhya Pradesh paid the price for ignoring the demands of those displaced by the Narmada Valley project. Now, under a BJP government will there be a change in the resettlement and rehabilitation policy? UNLIKE the Congress(I), which has waffled on the issue of the Narmada …
Greenpeace campaigners on board their ship Rainbow Warrior, on a Corporate Accountability tour, get into a conflict with the Indian authorities. When Rainbow Warrior began its tour of India in November, the international crew on board the ship expected the usual resistance and conflict that Greenpeace campaigners had come to …
after finding high levels of dioxin-related compounds in breast milk of women living near landfills, a Vadodara-based non-governmental organisation intends to file a public interest litigation (pil) against the Gujarat Pollution Control Board and the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (vmc). Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti (pss), the ngo, alleges that people's health is …
The policy discourse on management of protected areas (PAs) has come a long way from purely conservationist strategies to participatory approaches. In between these two there is a wide range of options that combine different elements of resource sharing, market regulation and privatization. Located in western part of India, Gir …
Kerala, along with Gujarat and Maharashtra, are the three Indian states selected for a programme called the Commonwealth local government good practice scheme. The scheme is to be implemented by the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (cglf), a London-based institution founded in 1995 as a focus for action on local democracy …
Thanks to an alert sounded by activists, the Indian authorities could take timely action to prevent dumping of toxic waste. Pressure group Greenpeace had raised an alarm about the Norwegian ship Hesperus
The Gujarat government has come up with a quick-fix solution to ensure that parched areas of the state get irrigation benefits from the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). It has drafted a proposal to constitute a body to develop the irrigation infrastructure. The development means a shift of responsibility from the …
In the year 1998, Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (gspc), one of the fastest-growing groups in the energy sector and the only state-government owned e&p; (Exploration and Production) company in the country, created a Special Purpose Vehicle, Gujarat State Petronet Ltd (gspl), to set up a comprehensive gas grid infrastructure in …
The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has stayed the granting of lease to the J K Industries-owned Central Pulp Mill to extract bamboo from Shoolpaneshwar Sanctuary in Bharuch district of Gujarat. The CEC was responding to an application filed by ARCH, a Gujarat-based non-governmental organisation. The lease violated the Supreme Court …
The term genetically modified (GM) is highly controversial. While the science of transferring desirable genetic traits from one organism to another has applications in several fields
safe disposal of medical waste is a challenge faced by most medical institutes and hospitals. But if the Gujarat-based Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies (fcipt) is to be believed, the problem may soon be resolved. fcipt has developed the plasma pyrolysis system. "It is an ecofriendly technology that converts …
Thirty years of planning, 15 years of construction, ten years of promises and Rs 15,000 crore later, the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) is finally functioning
Karanda is a versatile but under-exploited plant found throughout the dry regions of India. It is cultivated for its edible fruits in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. A number of karanda variants are commonly found; according to taxonomists, they all belong to two species
