Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jagan Prasad Tehriya Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 23/05/2025. The applicant has alleged large-scale illegal felling of green trees within the Agra district, Uttar Pradesh. The application revealed instances of illegal tree felling at Fatehabad, Sadar, Kiraoli and Agra …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Rohit Prajapati & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/01/2016 regarding permissions granted by the authorities to establish Respondent Nos. 6 to 9 industrial units (United Phosphorous Ltd, United Chemicals, Darshak Pvt Ltd and …
For a state government that pats itself for having turned Gujarat into a power-surplus region by connecting all the urban and rural areas to the electricity grid, the census data of 2011 — that shows over 11 lakh households without electricity — could come as a shock. The housing data …
IN NOVEMBER last year, the Supreme Court directed the Gujarat government to pay Rs 3 lakh each as compensation to the families of 238 tribal migrant workers from Madhya Pradesh who died of silicosis, a fatal respiratory disease caused by inhaling silica dust, while working in the state’s factories. The …
When representatives of the world’s largest seed company, Monsanto, began to make discreet visits to the second floor offices of the inconspicuous Van Bandhu Kalyaan Yojana in the Gandhinagar headquarters of the Gujarat government in 2007, it set in motion a process that would transform Indian agriculture in unexpected and …
Yoginder K Alagh : Controversies around the Sardar Sarovar Project have continued for decades. So, when I recently wrote a piece on the project for FE (April 19), I expected to start a debate. But being a lone ranger and a 71-year-young researcher working at home with a pencil, I …
AFTER reserving the mining of limestone and bauxite for stateowned GMDC, the state government on Friday decided to reserve the lignite mines too for the PSU. The latest move is expected to expedite underground coal gassification projects in JV with Reliance Industries and ONGC as well as other long-term supply …
Study was conducted on low cost earthen dam during 2003-2005 at the Central Horticultural Experiment Station, Vejalpur. The study indicated that, runoff water, harvested can be recycled which forms an integral part of successful horticulture fruit crops, during lean period. Dam was constructed across small gully of 3 m depth …
Saeed Khan | TNN Ahmedabad: Gujarat government might have got a reprimand from Centre for not implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in a proper manner, but residents in a distant Naroda village of the Panchamahals district found a new pressure tactic to get the scheme implemented systematically. …
Eco-tourism is of special interest in the present day scenario for its relationship with conservation, sustainability and biological diversity and as a development tool. It is very much desirable to adopt certain firm measures to propagate good quality ecotourism without pressurizing or stressing the area. July-Dec 2007
the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (gpcb) served a closure notice to a plant of Alembic Ltd in Panelav village of Panchmahal district, Gujarat, on August 25, 2006. It manufactures bulk drugs and drug intermediates. The notice was issued after it was found that the plant was environmentally hazardous and its …
THE social forestry programme (SFP) initiated by N M Sadguru Water and Development Foundation (NMSWDF), an NGO working in Panch Mahals district in Gujarat, has empowered a large number of tribal women in the district by involving them in the management of nurseries and plantations. The programme, which began in …
