Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of News item titled: 5 Jharkhand forest officers attacked by Stone mafia, appearing in The Times of India dated 24.03.2025. The application was taken up on the basis of a news item published in the Times of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of News item titled: 5 Jharkhand forest officers attacked by Stone mafia, appearing in The Times of India dated 24.03.2025. The application was taken up on the basis of a news item published in the Times of …
A report on the factual aspects and action taken by the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board for compliance of the NGT order of December 5, 2019 in O.A. No. 162/2019 in the matter of Anwar Hussain Ansari, Vice President Jhamumo Vs State of Jharkhand. The matter related to encroachment on …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Anwar Hussain Ansari, Jhamumo Alpsankhayak Morcha Vs State of Jharkhand dated 03/05/2019 regarding pollution of the ground water by M/s Aditya Birla Chemicals, Rehla, District Palaamu on account of fly ash produced by industrial process. It was also alleged that …
Farmers are eagerly awaiting their crop compensation in villages falling in and around Palamu tiger reserve. Standing crop and harvested crop both are destroyed and damaged by herd of elephants. Standing crop is raided by herd of pachyderms in the fields while harvested crop stored in barns which are always …
Two hills in tiger reserve Palamu count much. The hills are Burha Pahar and Jaigir Pahar. Burha pahar is ‘notorious’ while Jaigir pahar is “submissive’. Burha pahar is in Kutku range of North division while Jaigir Pahar is in the South division of Garu range. Both the hills become temporary …
Ranchi: The Jharkhand forest, wildlife and environment department began a state-wide survey on Wednesday to determine the population of wild elephants in the state. Forest guards, officers and trackers, who have been specially trained for the census, will carry out the census in all forest divisions, including eight wildlife sanctuaries …
Ranchi: Chief minister Raghubar Das and agriculture minister Randhir Singh on Wednesday convened a series of meetings with the agriculture department officials and disaster management department and appointed a task force at district-level to submit block-wise drought report by October 15. The government has admitted around 20% loss of paddy …
A senior BJP leader of Palamu, Parshuram Ojha has written to the Chief Minister Raghubar Das about the drinking water crisis in the district. The BJP leader has urged the Chief Minister to set up a team of officials to know the basic problem. Ojha who is known here as …
The officials of the Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) have been given lessons in tranquilising rogue wildlife. In the recently-concluded three-day training on ecology, ethnology and population estimation of large mammals in Betla, the PTR officials were given a demonstration of the use of tranquilising gun, dosage of sedative etc. There …
A member of the State biodiversity board, DS Srivastava, has asked the Palamu tiger reserve authorities to draw up a contingency plan to meet the rain water deficit in the National Park and elsewhere in this 1,026 square kilometre spread tiger reserve. The biodiversity board member alleged that about hundred …
The indiscriminate encroachment of forest land in the two districts of Latehar and Palamu has become a major cause of concern for the forest authorities here. Following the Forest Rights Act, 2006, land is being encroached upon without any fear of law. This is done over a period of time. …
Misuse of transit permit for felled trees in the district by timber smugglers has become rampant. Many people in Palamu are cutting trees illegally on raiyyat land and smuggling timber using permits issued by the district forest office. No raiyyat can cut a tree on his land or transport logs …
Daltonganj: Two white vultures were spotted by the officials of Palamu Tiger Reserve in Chainpur recently. They were perched on the sand bed of river Koyal, said sources. This is the first time in 10 years that a vulture has been sighted in Palamu. The sighting of this rare species …
Low rainfall in the state has more than affected crops this kharif season and is forcing farmers to migrate to other parts of the country for livelihood. Most of the men in remote villages here have already started moving to states like Bangalore, Raipur, Kerala, Mumbai in search of work. …
A well-building project in Jharkhand has fallen flat on its face with more incompleteor collapsed wells and unpaid wages. More than three years after the Jharkhand government ordered that 50 wells be built in each of its 4423 panchayats, with an aim to build over a lakh irrigation wells in …
Forest fire is one major reason behind the depleting forest cover in the state, claims environmentalist and forest activist. And such fires are frequent with the onset of summer. On several occasions these fires are man-made. Activists blame the state forest department for its inaction in handling the menace while, …
Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh clearly and categorically advocated not to issue any fresh licence for mining in the iron ore rich Saranda area. The Minister also divulged that several such applications had come when he was heading the Forest and Environment Ministry but declined to give his …
For the first time, 500 NREGS workers have drawn their wages in January utilising the UIDAI Adhaar, a micro ATM, and biometric data. The pilot project, to ensure transparency and timely disbursal of wages, has been welcomed by villages. Launched simultaneously at Meru in Hazaribagh and Ratu in Ranchi on …
Ranchi, Aug. 5: Nine districts of Jharkhand will have an annual earning of over Rs 1,151 crore with the local population reaping most of the benefits if a 26 per cent profit sharing clause under a draft Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Bill 2011, to be tabled in Parliament …
A total of 48 CCTV cameras are to be installed in the 1,026 square kilometre of the Palamu Tiger Reserve, segmented into 30 zones, field director SEH Kazmi said. Training to this effect was given at Betla on Monday. Forty tiger reserve personnel attended the training session in this regard …
