Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hemant Kumar & Others Vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 13/05/2025. An application was received by the NGT filed by Hemant Kumar on behalf of all the villagers of Gram Panchayat Salani Katola, tehsil Nahan, district Sirmaur, Himachal …
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has sanctioned Rs 145.72 crore for the construction of carriageways along nearly 89 kilometres of road on two major national highways, mainly in the districts of Kangra and Sirmaur. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said he received a communication on this from …
Of the 151 fire incidents reported in last one week, at least 95% were forest fires With the temperatures remaining nearly 10-12 degrees Celsius above normal, amid the extreme dry weather conditions, forest fires are spreading fast across the state. Nearly 150 fire incidents across six districts of the state …
Even as industrialists are running out of time to avail of the special tax holidays granted under the Central industrial package, which is ending this month, country
The key purpose of this document is to provide an assessment of impacts of Renuka dam from the point of view of those to be affected and analyze the issues in the frame-work of community rights, resource ownership, use and distribution. The role of the state and its policies in …
Chander Shekhar Sharma | Hamirpur The Mid-Himalayan Watershed Project has caused the Himachal Pradesh gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate to shoot upto 9 per cent. The watershed project has been launched in the State by the World Bank. A recently released report on the implementation of Mid-Himalayan development project …
Under the professional Institutional networking (PIN) of Ministry of Rural Development,United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) sanction Appraisal of impact assessment study, in the three districts namely Sirsa in Haryana, Sirmaur in Himachal Pradesh and Hoshiarpur in Punjab. NREGS was started in the first phase in these selected districts. Study has …
Optimization of ecosystem goods and services from plantations depend on their sustainable production, protection and management. So far, the objective of attaining optimum production of environmental goods and services has remained a far cry due to uncontrolled exploitation, ignorance and inefficient management strategies. Present paper point towards the efficiency of …
In a throwback to the Chipko movement to save trees in the seventies, the Rakhi festival has turned into a rallying point for hundreds of village women near here as they pledge to protect their 'brother' trees that will be drowned by the Renuka hydroelectric project. Women from villages near …
Alerted by the death of a lioness in Renuka Lion Safari in Sirmaur district of Himachal, the authorities have directed the supervisory staff to ensure that
Studies carried out in sal forests of Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh revealed that the artificially reclaimed sites develop much faster in terms of soil and vegetation as compared to abandoned mines. The community developed on artificially reclaimed site was altogether different from the naturally occuring one but the naturally …
Location: On River Giri, a tributary of the Yamuna, in Renuka tehsil of Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh Objective: To supply 1,240 mld water to Delhi for nine months a year and 40 MW electricity to Himachal Pradesh Cost: Rs 2,700 crore; Centre will bear 90 per cent of the project …
Delhi eyes water from Himachal dam but without checking distribution losses in the city Fifty-year-old Jagir Singh Tomar is among the 700 families in Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh who would be affected by the proposed Renuka dam on Giri, a tributary of the Yamuna river. The project, via Haryana, …
The city of Delhi gets a lot of rain every year, more than sufficient for its needs, but it does not use that rainwater. It had hundreds of water bodies, but it has destroyed most of them and continues to destroy the remaining ones. For its supply of water Delhi …
Environment impact assessment and other screening processes have evolved into methods of rubber stamping all proposals, both good and bad. The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, met people in 32 villages of Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh last year and asked …
The city of Delhi gets a lot of rain every year, more than sufficient for its needs, but it does not use that rainwater. The city gets huge quantity of water from dams and rivers from long distances, equal to one of the highest quantity of water in the nation …
by Manshi Asher THE Renuka dam project, to be set up by the Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation limited in Sirmaur district, has been in the news for more than a decade. The project has been a pipe dream, literally and figuratively, for the government of Himachal Pradesh, which hopes to …
