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 …
Gandhinagar district has 14,332 malnourished children, according to the state government's own data. What's more, 1,374 children of these are severely underweight. The state capital Gandhinagar city has 5,494 children. Of these, 505 are underweight. Minister of state for women and child welfare Vasuben Trivedi in the written reply to …
AHMEDABAD: Come October and Ahmedabad will have probably India's first smart grid system in place where consumers will be able to pick a suitable plan for electricity consumption like they do for cellphones. Uttar Gujarat Vij Company Pvt Ltd (UGVCL) is set to roll out a modernized electric grid or …
Unchecked littering has cost us our rivers and this is particularly true about Sabarmati which today has more garbage than water downstream in the city. Religious paraphernalia thrown from bridges, agricultural waste, pesticides and fertilizers from monsoon run-offs, parts of riverbank turned into illegal garbage dumps and illegal discharge of …
Imagine not taking a bath in this hot and sultry summer. But 37% Amdavadis have been doing just that. They do not bathe daily, says a survey conducted by the National Integrated Medical Association (NIMA). All this thanks to the lack of awareness about the health-related aspects of having a …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Himanshu R. Barot Vs State of Gujarat & Ors. dated 22/04/2014 regarding location of a factory in a thickly populated human locality, Kalyan Mill, Naroda Road, North Gujrat estate, Ahmedabad. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/judgment/109_2013(THC)(App)(WZ)_22Apr2014_final_order.pdf
A severe thunderstorm steamrolled the city for 25 minutes, claiming at least five lives. Krishnakanth Kushwar, 14, and Ramdas Kushwar, 24, died when a tree fell over the autorickshaw they were travelling in Amraiwadi. A 50-year-old man was crushed to death under a falling wall in Isanpur. In Sola, one …
Ahmedabad: A recent study done by a women’s organization, along with international agency, in 34 villages of Gujarat has found that 22.2% of the women who inherited land in the last three years had to give up their title deeds, either by force or due to lack of knowledge about …
The researchers conducted an analysis of all-cause mortality associated with a May 2010 heat wave in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, to determine whether extreme heat leads to excess mortality. Counts of all-cause deaths from May 1–31, 2010 were compared with the mean of counts from temporally matched periods in May 2009 …
Farmers from Hansalpur village, the proposed site for the upcoming Maruti plant, on Tuesday staged a day-long dharna outside the collector's office in the city. They were protesting against the construction of a wall on the disputed 207-acre land. The dispute is over ownership of land, which, the villagers claim, …
Realising the importance of wetland conservation for ecological balance, the Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC) has decided to launch an extensive drive to train locals across all districts in conserving and rejuvenating traditional wetlands. Large areas of Gujarat like Saurashtra, Kutch and North Gujarat are considered to be scarcity prone due …
Water is considered essential for life. But in Ahmedabad, it is the cause of rising waterborne diseases (jaundice and gastroenteritis) — which have witnessed a whopping 50% rise compared to last year, thanks to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) failure to provide clean drinking water. The civic body’s weekly health report …
On the eve of World Cancer Day on Tuesday, experts warned that Gujarat has become the breeding ground for oral cancers as over 1.3 crore Gujaratis are addicted to tobacco consumption. "National Cancer Registry Programme has indicated that Ahmedabad has the highest incidence of oral cancers in the country with …
We are not acquiring a single inch of land of farmers, says official The Gujarat government is acquiring 920 square km of land, most of it agricultural, of 15,000 farmer families spread across 22 villages for Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) project. Farmers have been …
The number of birds affected by deadly manja this Uttarayan hit approximately 1,150 on Thursday. The 'Save the bird campaign' that is being run between January 11 and 17 by the forest department in association with NGOs in the city rescued and operated on 1,142 birds while 54 such injured …
Rajkot: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) and Ahmedabad district collectorate will hold a public hearing for environmental impact assessment for the proposed Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) in Dholera on Friday. DSIR is one of the first investment regions to be covered under the proposed Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) …
A recent study undertaken by students of CEPT University, that monitored the ambient air quality of Ahmedabad at 32 locations, shows that at least 15 areas in the city, including its own campus, have suspended particulate matter beyond permissible limits. Other areas - Nava Vadaj, Kankaria Zoo, Viratnagar, Odhav GIDC, …
Gujarat accounts for 9% of all slums in urban areas across the country, findings related to key indicators of urban slums released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) on Tuesday show. The survey estimated a total of 33,510 slums to be present in urban areas of the country, of …
Having changed political equations in Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has started targeting Gujarat government. The party has published a detailed list of manual scavengers and places where they are forced to carry out the inhuman activity in Ahmedabad and other places. Convener of AAP in Gujarat Sukhdev …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Himanshu R. Barrot & Anr Vs State of Gujarat & Ors dated 09/12/2013 regarding industrial pollution in the Bapunagar area of Ahmadabad, Gujarat. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/109-(THC)-2013(OA)_9Dec2013.pdf
