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 …
MARDIA Chemicals Ltd (MCL) of Gujarat has been producing H-, J- and K-acids, tobaid acid, vinyl sulphone, dye intermediates and sulphuric acid since January 1991, with what are suspected to be 'second-hand imported plants. Reports of pollution by the plant poured in 1991 itself. Complaints of air, water and ground …
1987 0 P Agarwal buys and illegally acquires land adjoining Bichhri village and sets up a chain of chemical factories on it September 1988 The villagers launch an agitation and write letters to the President, the Prime Minister, the state chief minister and the Rajasthan Pollution Control Board (RPCB) September-October …
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute study, carried out at the behest of the Supreme Court, lists the 'dewatering' of the aquifer around Bichhri as a measure to repair the damage done by the H-acid plants. But environmental engineer and senior professor of Aligarh Muslim University, R L Siddiqui, explains …
Plot no 6104, Phase IV industrial estate of the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), Vapi, could be any other industrial unit among hundreds others in this township. There is no signboard proclaiming the name of the company. The unit, Golden Colourchern Ltd, is owned by 0 P Agarwal, and H-acid …
H-acid (or 1-napthol-8-amino-3,6 disulfonic acid) is an azo dye (an alcohol + an ether) *which exists as a white crystal or grey powder. Large quantities of sulphuric and nitric acids, common salt,-iron filings, caustic soda, lime and napthalene are needed for its manufacture, which can cause extensive damage to standing …
It is not just the land that has turned barren in Bichhri - the cattle have also been badly hit. Initially, when effluents flowed through the village, residents were alarmed to see the skin peel off their cattle after they had wallowed in contaminated water. Several families lost their cows …
THE Supreme Court (SC) judgement has made our village famous, a primary school headmaster tells a small group gathered around him in a temple courtyard in Bichhri. He is referring to the February 13, 1996 judgement in the court of Justices B P Jeevan Reddy and B N Kirpal, ordering …
• A recent report made by the Punjab Pollution Control Board has made gloomy predictions for India's two major wetlands located in Harike and Kanjli areas in the state. Indiscriminate deforestation and mismanagement are devastating these wetlands. • The world's biggest solar power chimney plant of 200 MW capacity is …
THE fact that laws which govern the cooperative sector have always left successful cooperatives tantalisingly within the reach of political leadership has once again come to the fore in Gujarat. The almost idyllic calm at Amul, the most successful of such ventures in the country, was shattered when it was …
At last the Gujarat government has announced a cash award for those educating the masses about the need for planting trees and taking care of them. The award carries a sum of Rs 70,000. To be eligible for the award, the person has to belong to the state, having contributed …
LATE October 1995, the Gujarat government asked the Dutch company Haskoning to prepare a pre-feasibility report of the Kalpsar project - envisaging a 30-km long dam in the Gulf of Khambat between Bhavnagar and Bharuch. The proposed 2,000 sq km area enclosed by the Rs 9.76-crore dam would hold sweet …
THE latest figures of the oustees of the Sardar Sarovar Project (ssp) show that relief and rehabilitation (R&R;) has almost come to a standstill. In the last 14 months since June 1994, the Gujarat government has been able to resettle just 94 families from all the three states of Gujarat, …
WHEN the Gujarat High Court ((-,Hc) orders for closing down 756 units in and around Ahmedabad on August 5, and 26 major industries in Nandesari estate in Barcida on September 5 (Down To Earth, Vol 4, No 9) were not followed, contempt petition against government officials was admitted. However, the …
IN THE depths of saline ground above a water layer that is blackish they store fresh water for their year's needs. They are the Maldharies inhabiting the vast expanse of undulating Banni porturelands located in the desert areas of the northern Kutch district of Gujarat. They are the descendents of …
Much to the dismay of the owners of 5 industrial estates located in Naroda, Odhav and Narol areas in Gujarat, their writ petition, seeking permission to restart production was turned down by the Gujarat High Court judges on September 19. The division bench consisting of Acting Chief Justice R A …
A RED dog laps up purple water from an open gutter, while a yellow cow ambles past. Dreams in technicolour? No ... just one of the many everyday scenes in Ankleshwar, Gujarat, Asia's largest chemical industry zone and possibly one of the most polluted. The acrid smell of chemicals welcomes …
Chastened by the state High Court's orders on its apathy in disciplining effing polluting units, the Gujarat government has taken belated action and cut off water and electricity connections of about 240 polluting units located in Vapi, Nandesari and the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation estates. The government action was prompted …
THE Gujarat legislature passed a bill in July 1995, reducing the area of the Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary in Kutch, Gujarat, to 444.23 sq krn from the earlier notified 765.79 sq km. Narayan Sarovar, famous for chinkaras, has become the battle ground for developmentalists and conservationists over the last few years, …
Handling facility of general cargo/LPG/chemicals and their storage terminal at Navinal Island, Mundra Taluk of Kutch District, Gujarat: environmental clearance - office memorandum (25 August 1995).
IT WAS a Herculean task. For 6 months in 1993, the residents of Kabripathar village enthusiastically carved channels in the unflinching, hard soil, laid pipes and tamped down and levelled the sloping land. Today, this newly-established lift irrigation system is helping them battle the tyranny of the seasons: they can …
