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 …
Mandi: Fourteen towns, including Mandi, Sundernagar and Kullu, in the state are set to get rid of the frequent breakdown of power supply and low voltage as the state electricity board is overhauling its jaded electrical and distribution system under the centrally sponsored Accelerated Power Development and Restructuring Programme. Funded …
In less than three years, more than 9,500 polyhouses have replaced ‘terraces’ on nearly 100 hectares of cultivable land on the slopes of Himachal Pradesh. The innovative and lucrative method of farming inside polyhouses to grow vegetables has turned out to be ideal in harsh winters when little cultivation is …
Apart from destroying over 38,000 trees and affecting 1.26 lakh trees, as many as 50 families in Talain village will be displaced permanently by the controversial Lafarge cement plant being set up in the Alsindi-Ghanghar belt in Karsog subdivision in this district. The cement plant will spell doom for the …
In A first-of-its-kind initiative in perhaps any state of India, Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has decided to roll out Pollution Control Vehicles (PCVs) to instantly respond to complaints and take action. As a pilot project — beginning this November — the PCVs will be pressed into service in Ludhiana, …
Mandi/Purlog: Villagers from 11 gram panchayats in Mandi district, under the banner of the Satluj Bacho Jan Kalyan Samiti, today lodged their objections before a panel headed by the Deputy Commissioner, Mandi, during a public hearing and said no to the 38-km-long twin tunnels of the 775 MW Luhri power …
Luhri Hydro-electric project proposed by Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) Ltd. (A Joint Venture of Government of India & the State Government of Himachal Pradesh) aims at harnessing power potential of the waters of Satluj river. It also covers probable environmental impacts of various project activities to be undertaken during …
The Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board will hold a public hearing in regard to the 750 MW-Luhri hydro power project — coming up on the Satluj river — in Mandi district’s Parlog on August 9. Earlier, the Board did not hold a public hearing scheduled for May 5 due to …
n 20,000 trees, 60,000 saplings and 3.5 lakh non-timber plants and herbs will be destroyed, n 759 families will be landless and 361 homeless in Sundernagar Controversial Harish Cement Ltd
The delay in setting up a permanent campus for IIT Mandi due to land unavailability will be a thing of the past. The Environment Ministry on Friday cleared the diversion of 308 acres of forest land for the IIT, which will specialise in
Himachal* Renuka dam, Tidong hydel plant, cement units among projects awaiting environment clearance The Renuka dam is the latest in a series of projects in Himachal Pradesh that have been either scrapped or delayed due to environmental concerns. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) rejected the state government
Mandi: The high-profile Raid-de-Himalayas motor sport rally that reached today at Keylong in snowbound Lahaul-Spiti raised the ire of environmentalists, farmers and tribal writers. They said an ear-blowing convoy of over 140 vehicles had created havoc. Highlighting the impact of the motor rally in the peaceful sylvan valleys of Himalayas, …
ON SEPTEMBER 17, the National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) cancelled two environmental clearances: Vedanta’s bauxite mining in Niyamgiri Hills in Odisha and the National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC’s)Kotli-Behl 1B dam on the Alakananda river in Uttarakhand. A few days earlier, it had cancelled the environmental clearance for the integrated cement …
Chandigarh: The Himachal Pradesh government has come out with an Rs 4,668-crore integrated watershed management perspective (IWMP) plan for treatment of 31,12,472 hectare in the state. Highly placed official sources told FE that
New Delhi: The government is studying the green tribunal order quashing clearance granted to French giant Lafarge promoted Rs 900-crore integrated cement plant in Himachal Pradesh, environment minister Jairam Ramesh has said. Stung by criticism of his officials doing a "shoddy job" while approving the project in Mandi district, Ramesh …
EW DELHI: A Rs. 900-crore cement project in Himachal Pradesh promoted by French giant Lafarge has lost its environmental clearance after the National Environment Appellate Authority ruled that the project threatened the agriculture-based economy and the nearby Majathal Wildlife sanctuary. The clearance was originally granted by the Union Ministry for …
NEW DELHI: A Rs. 900-crore cement project in Himachal Pradesh promoted by French giant Lafarge has lost its environmental clearance after the National Environment Appellate Authority ruled that the project threatened the agriculture-based economy and the nearby Majathal Wildlife sanctuary. The clearance was originally granted by the Union Ministry for …
Baldev S Chauhan / Shimla September 14, 2010, 1:07 IST Lafarge India has suffered a setback, with the National Environmental Appellate Authority (NEAA) rejecting the clearance to a Rs 900-crore cement plant it was proposing at Ghanger in Himachal Pradesh
