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 …
Ahmedabad: Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been put on alert in Surat and Amreli districts, following heavy rain warnings. Since 8 am on Tuesday, the state received rainfall in around 122 of the 250 talukas. According to the revenue control room, heavy rains were recorded in …
Residents of over 104 villages in five talukas — Olpad, Choryasi, Makrej, Palsana and Mangrol — in Surat district, South Gujarat, are up in arms against the move to bring their villages under the Surat Urban Development Authority (SUDA), which is preparing a master development plan 2035. The government has …
Ahmedabad: The number of days of moderate and severe heat waves engulfing Gujarat over more than a decade is steadily increasing. This has been revealed in a study on 'heat waves, temperature extremes and their impacts on monsoon and drought', spanning three decades (1981 to 2010), and representing nine agro-climatic …
Surat: The Adani-Hazira Port Pvt Ltd (AHPPL) and its associate Hazira Infrastructure Pvt Ltd have deposited Rs 25 crore with the Surat district collector's Escrow Account towards the compensation and restoration for carrying out work at their near Surat without acquiring environment clearance (EC). The National Green Tribunal (NGT) had …
Bharuch: Large number of industrial units in Ankleshwar, Panoli and Jhagadia estates may have to curtail production following damage to the pipeline carrying treated effluents into deep sea. The pipeline runs from Ankleshwar to Kantiyajal in Hansot taluka. Alok Kumar, chief executive officer (CEO), Narmada Clean Tech Ltd, the company …
Adani-Hazira Port (AHPPL) on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court challenging the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT’s) order that quashed environmental clearance (EC) granted to its ambitious port project in Hazira near Surat and also imposed a penalty of `25 crore for restoration of damaged environment. Adani-Hazira Port (AHPPL) on Wednesday moved …
Adani Ports and SEZ today said the order by the National green Tribunal (NGT) on carrying out work at their Hazira-based port without environment clearance has not impacted its operations in the area. "There is no stay on construction/operation currently and we have been provided four weeks to comply with …
The order was issued in response to a plea filed by four local fishermen of Hazira in 2013, who challenged the EC granted by MoEF for further development of port activities at Hajira in the same year. The National Green Tribunal has slapped a penalty of Rs 25 crore on …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Hazira Macchimar Samiti & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/01/2016 regarding Environmental Clearance (EC) granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) for further development of Port activities at Hajira, district Surat. …
The court had previously stated that Surat generates 1600 ton MSW per day, of which only 50 ton is treated. Upset over the delay in formulating a concrete action plan for solid waste management in Surat, the National Green Tribunal has ordered the district collector to recover Rs 75 crore …
The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has come down heavily on industrial units operating from residential areas and sealed over 800 small scale units in Varacha zone of the city. After Gujarat High Court directed SMC to take appropriate action against industrial units operating in residential areas last November, the officials …
The Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today that Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD) had conducted an enquiry into the matter. As per OISD report no culpability could be established, however, the root cause of the …
Indian Air Force helicopters rescued over 100 people from various parts of Amreli, with four helicopters pressed into service. Heavy rains caused by a deep depression over the Arabian Sea have left 70 people dead in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region and parts of South Gujarat since Wednesday. The depression has since …
SURAT: Owners of a water park were penalized for cutting down 70 trees in Damka village of Choryasi taluka, about 24 km from Surat city. They were imposed a fine of Rs 70,000 by the taluka mamlatdar on Monday. According to the Choryasi mamlatdar's office, management of Joy Fun Park …
For the first time in Gujarat's epidemic history, the state has the maximum number of swine flu cases and deaths in the country. On Tuesday, Gujarat overtook Rajasthan after it registered 40 new cases, taking the number of swine flu cases reported from January 1 to 6,226. Rajasthan has 6,209 …
Ten more people succumbed to swine flu in Gujarat today, taking the toll due to the H1N1 virus in the state to 342 this year, an official statement said. 102 fresh cases of swine flu infection were reported today, taking the total number of cases to 5,623, the statement issued …
Seven new Swine flu deaths were reported in Gujarat on Monday. With this, the total death toll from January 1 has reached 88. A total of 87 new cases were recorded from across the state with highest number of 21 cases reported from Ahmedabad followed by 20 from Kutch. Vadodara …
With the death of a 37-year-old man in Surat on Tuesday,the death toll due to swine flu has gone up to 19 in Gujarat. In the last two days,three deaths have been reported due to deadly H1N1 virus from New Civil Hospital in Surat. The death toll in Surat is …
A recent survey conducted by online classifieds platform for vehicles cartrade.com shows that Gujarat market shows high demand for used compressed natural gas (CNG) cars as compared to rest of India. It showed that Surat is leading with a demand of 18.35 per cent, followed by Rajkot with a demand …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Hazira Macchimar Samiti Vs Union of India & Ors dated 02/12/2014 regarding cargo port at Hazira, Surat, Gujarat. The Tribunal directed the Commissioner of Fisheries, shall file affidavit explaining the present width of channel of the …
