Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Ever since the well-known environmentalist P R Mishra stepped into Sukhomairi to transform its barren landscape in the early 70s, Jethu Ram has been thinking of water and trees. He was among the few villagers who first volunteered to work for soil and water conservation after being convinced by Mishra. …
THE cutting of about five lakh trees by the Indian Air Force (IAF) in the Tilpat forest range of Haryana last year is still shrouded in controversy. V K Bahuguna, deputy-director general, forest protection division (FPD), says that the Forest Protection Acts in most states prohibit anyone from eliminating forests …
WATER-LOGGING in northern India has caused massive decline in the area under cotton cultivation. The production of cotton in Punjab and Haryana has been the worst affected, said the North India Cotton Association. But the area under cotton in the Gangangar tracts in Rajasthan has not shrunk. According to estimates, …
Farmers in Haryana have found a novel way to prevent rapid decline of natural forests in India. This method would also help support nearly 500 wood-based industries. They have demonstrated commercial viability of the poplar tree (Poplus). This tree can reduce pressure on natural forests that are declining annually at …
WILDLIFE officials fear that migratory birds will not come to the Sultanpur National Park, Haryana, because the lake that supports the park is rapidly drying up and even the artificial sources of water have been stopped. According to R D Jakati, chief wildlife warden of Haryana, widespread activities like industrial …
aids prevention: The government of India plans to launch the second phase of its nationwide AIDS control and prevention programme. The government has received Rs 750 crore from the World Bank for this programme. For the first phase (1992-99), the government had allocated around Rs 320 crore. Half of the …
an improved biogas system has recently been developed by a Haryana-based non-governmental organisation. Compared with existing systems that produce inflammable methane by fermenting biological waste, this new system from the Social Centre for Rural Initiative and Advancement ( scria ) in Khori village, Haryana, is less expensive and can be …
the focus of the book is on the processes by which the development of a grassroot institution was attempted and the constraints faced in doing this with bureaucracy as a dominant partner. The book highlights developing effective mechanisms for resolving conflicts either between Hill Resource Management Society (hrms) and the …
THE concept of joint forest management JFM is based on the interaction of forest departments with local people. However, the interests of people and forest departments could at times be at variance, as in Salehpur, a Gujjar-dominated village in Haryana near the border with Himachal Pradesh. The Hill Resource Management …
in rohtak district of Haryana, a scandal involving the illicit felling of about 10,000 trees worth about Rs 50 lakh has recently surfaced. Apparently, several persons including some forest department (fd) officials have been framed in several cases. The trees which belonged to the fd, were reportedly felled between December …
LAST monsoon, floods had usurped their crops. And then followed malaria, taking a massive unforseen toll. The malady is feared to have claimed over 10,000 lives in the Mewat region in the Haryana-Rajasthan border, spanning over 800 villages in the Gurgaon district of Haryana, and almost an equal number of …
the air is oppressively still. Sultanpur is today a virtual ghost town. Thirteen km off Hisar, this small town has a population of about 5,000. The dung-spattered bylanes are mostly empty. Most of the residents have been bed-ridden since mid-July, when a mysterious fever struck Sultanpur and adjoining villages in …
Foreseeing the threat posed by mining to the Surajkund and Badkallakes in Haryana, the Supreme Court has ordered the closure of all mines on May 13. No mining operation will be allowed within a two km radius of the tourist resorts. The court also directed that no construction of any …
Come summer and the squabbling for water between Delhi and Haryana begins. Haryana was pulled up by the Supreme Court of India on February 24, for its failure to stop the leakage of highly polluted effluents in river Yamuna through drain no eight originating in Haryana. Water supply to Delhi …
HOMING IN WITH FLOWERS: Cashing in on the flower boom in the country, the Haryana-based Karishma Floriculture Ltd (KFL) has decided to manufacture indigenous greenhouses for floriculturists. Negotiations are on with Dalsems, Netherlands, the world leader in the production of greenhouses, stated S N Bansal, the managing director of KFL. …
THE stone crushing units one witnesses while entering Haryana gives a crystal clear picture of the development taking place in the lives of the people there. Bonded labour, exploitation of women, environmental degradation, health hazards, the growth of slums and recurrent floods are some of the inevitable gifts inherited by …
MOVE over, Montego and Daewoo. You're far too stick and soft for India's terrible terrain. Outside the cities in Punjab and Haryana, the highways - and the fields - belong to this rumbling, dyspeptic roadhog called Maruta, a contemptuous corruption of a simpering cousin, the Maruti. The Maruta is rural …
THAT toothy grin is on again. After the previous fiasco, when US secretary of energy Hazel R O'Leary visited the village of Dhanawas (in Gurgaon, Haryana) near Delhi last July, some residents promptly shot down her offerings of renewable energy technologies; they were more interested, they said, in better schooling …
THE sight of young forests in a dry desert is a breathtaking sight. Marusthal par vijay is the story of the Haryana Forest Department's afforestation efforts to block the sinister advance of the Thar desert. The film shows how Hissar in Haryana and Jodhpur in Rajasthan sandbag off the assaults. …
ON MARCH 3, Navita Singh, senior sub-judge of Haryana's Kaithal district, created a precedent when she passed a permanent injunction restraining the working of one of Kaithal's 350 odd punjawas -- outdated brick kilns using coal dust that, resembling a hillock, have no chimneys that distinguish "modern" brick kilns. Singh's …
