Valsad (D)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding desilting of the Defence Colony drain in Delhi before the monsoon, 16/04/2025

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 …

GPCB issues notice over sludge issue

Vapi: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has issued a show cause notice to Vapi Waste and Effluent Management Co. Pvt. Ltd (VWEMCL) for not implementing the precautionary steps required ahead of the monsoon at the common solid waste management site. Huge quantity of industrial sludge on Tuesday had spread into …

Oil slick hits Valsad beaches again

Surat: Pristine beaches of Umargam and Nargol are raising a stink once again. Oil slick, which coagulated as black balls, has once again hit the coast, leaving fisher folk jittery. The beaches affected in the past four days include Nargol, Tadgam, Maroli, Saronda, Umargam and Daman. “The slick has kept …

ICT - A rapid, innovative but simple technique for malaria diagnosis

Early, proper and accurate diagnosis plays an important role in case of malaria. Usually malarial diagnosis is done using clinical criteria and/or microscopy. Immunochromatographic tests (ICTs) are now a days widely available and recognized as an alternative method for diagnosis of the malaria. In this study we performed microscopy i. …

Child sex ratio declining in tribal districts as well

Ahmedabad: Tribal districts, which were the torch-bearers for the girl child in Gujarat, boasting of a far healthier number of girls in 0-6 age group, too have shown a decline in the past decade. Sociologists see this trend as alarming as almost all non-tribal districts in Gujarat are already reeling …

At 734: 1000, sex ratio in Vapi India’s lowest

Ahmedabad: Two cities of Gujarat, both industrial hubs, top the list of cities with lowest sex ratio in India. Vapi, the industrial town in south Gujarat, has got the lowest sex ratio in the country with only 734 women per 1,000 men. Diamond city Surat is second with 754 women …

Winter surprise at Bhilad mango orchard

2,000 Kg Of Unseasonal Alphonso Ready For Plucking By February Surat: There have been cases of unseasonal fruit growing on an isolated tree but not in an entire orchard. An estimated 2,000 kg of mangoes on 100 trees of an orchard near Sarigam on the Gujarat-Maharashtra border will be ready …

Pollution Is Not Above Board, Nor In Control

AROUND 300 tonnes of toxic waste still lies unattended at the former factories of Union Carbide in Bhopal. Dow Chemicals, which now owns Union Carbide, the company responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, will spend £7 million on the 2012 London Olympics. The same company has refused to clean …

Gujarat set to increase mangrove cover by 120 sq km

Gujarat's environment and forests department is aiming to bring an additional area of 120 sq km along the State's coastline under mangrove cover by the end of the financial year 2011-12. “We aim to carry out plantation of mangroves in 120 sq km area by the end of this year. …

Gujarat to bring addl area under mangrove cover

Gujarat’s environment and forest department is aiming to bring an additional area of 120 sq km along the state’s coastline under mangrove cover by the end of the financial year 2011-12. “We aim to carry out plantation of mangroves in 120 sq km area by the end of this year. …

Population hits the 6cr mark in Gujarat

GANDHINAGAR: The state's population has reached 6.04 crore in 2011, experiencing an overall decadal growth of 19.17 per cent. Gujarat has also experienced a 35.83 per cent growth in urban population between 2001 and 2011, as compared to rural areas' 9.23 per cent, which could prove to be a major …

Maha-Guj river link project underway

Nagpur: The detailed project report (DPR) of the Damanganga-Pinjal link, a project to share water of two river basins across Maharashtra and Gujarat is likely to be ready by the end of this year. The Geological Survey of India (GSI) central region, one of the agencies involved in the project, …

Gentle on critical pollution

Over a year ago, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) undertook an exercise to assess pollution levels in some of the highly polluted industrial areas of India. It then released a list of 43 most polluted areas, terming them critically polluted, and imposed a moratorium on their expansion. …

Gentle on critical pollution

After declaring 43 industrial areas in India as critically polluted and imposing a moratorium on their expansion, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is going easy on them. As many as 23 critically polluted areas have been removed from the moratorium list since last October on the basis of …

Now, Kesar mango from Sanand

AHMEDABAD: At a time when Sanand is poised to become country's auto hub, farmers in the region are trying to make a mark in the agriculture sector. Through a project supported by the state horticulture department, farmers have got positive results in growing Kesar mango. Kesar mango trees have been …

Swarnim Mamata project launched

Only 31 per cent of pregnant women in tribal taluka of Kaprada in Valsad district made use of institutional delivery system, which was lowest in Gujarat, a recent districtlevel health survey has revealed. Eighty-five per cent of the population in the 100 per cent tribal dominated taluka live below the …

Comprehensive environmental pollution abatement action plan: Vapi industrial cluster - Gujarat

Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and other institutes formulated the concept for Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) and has analyzed the environmental status of industrial clusters which were identified in consultation with Ministry of Environment and Forests for CEPI analysis. These …

Drowning villages for 8 paise

RESIDENTS of Kelwan in Gujarat’s Dang district do not allow outsiders to enter their village, especially people who seem city dwellers. They take them to be government officials who would conduct surveys for a project that will submerge their land and take away the area’s water to benefit industry. Their …

Poisoned beach

Effluents from an industrial estate destroy the coastal ecology and deprive local people of their livelihood at Tadgam in Gujarat. FAR from urban influences and pollutants, the beach at Tadgam in Valsad district in south Gujarat should be bustling with life. Gulls, sandpipers, stints and egrets should be foraging for …

As ocean rises, coastal villagers migrate to safety

Melvyn Thomas | TNNSurat: An impending danger is lurking in more than half-a-dozen coastal villages of Valsad. These villages are being invaded. More than half of the residents of these sleepy fishing villages have already fled away in search of safe shelters. It is not the issue of drinking water …

Mining activity troubles Bagwada village in Valsad

Vapi: The people of historic Bagwada village, a sub-centre of Peshwa regime, in Valsad district feel harassed by the ongoing mining activity at the foot of a hill there because of the nuisance that it causes and the danger it poses to ancient monuments. The Arjun Gadh (fort) and the …

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