Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake and Bird Conservation Trust Vs State of Karnataka & Others dated 02/05/2025. Pursuant to the tribunal order dated April 24, 2025, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) informed the court that as per …
A bountiful monsoon brought cheer across the country this year. But a few areas, particularly in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, were not as lucky as the rest. Governments of these states decided to change their fate with the help of an artificial rainmaking technique called
The retreating monsoon is leaving a trail of death and destruction across much of India. Floods have submerged three states in misery, while a severe drought has left two others high and dry. The toll: around 10 million people affected in the past month alone. The Union and state governments …
Panchayats, Democracy and Development . By Vinod Vyasulu . Rawat Publications, Jaipur and New Delhi, 2003 . 195 pages . Rs 395 In 1992 the Indian Parliament approved of the 73rd constitutional amendment, which made it mandatory for state governments to devolve powers to local bodies. More than a decade …
the Union government has withheld payment of claims worth about Rs 285 crore, filed by Karnataka's farmers under the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (nais). The authorities have cleared only a fraction of the state's crop insurance claims that amount to Rs 310 crore. Nodal implementing agency General Insurance Corporation of …
on august 7 the Karnataka state cabinet gave a fresh twist to the Cauvery controversy, when it decided to propose that the river's water be shared with Tamil Nadu (tn) only for drinking purposes. The ludicrousness of the plan can be gauged from the fact that almost 95 per cent …
a severe water crisis spawning an acute shortage of textbooks? Strange but true. Karnataka's school students recently became unsuspecting victims amid this bizarre turn of events. It so transpired that the Mysore Paper Mills (mpm) stopped functioning as its water supply was disrupted due to the drying up of Bhadra …
the sale of more than 5,000 hectares (ha) of land in the command areas of northern Karnataka in a span of just three years has made the state government sit up in alarm. It swung into action on June 6 notifying the Karnataka Irrigation (Amendment) Ordinance. The regulation bans the …
A few days ago, most of India reeled under drought. Cities thirsted for water. Karnataka's chief minister S M Krishna - seeing water supply in his software capital reduced to once in three days - announced desperate measures, such as prayer. The entire country seemed to await the first emancipatory …
Andhra Pradesh's response to the Paragodu project has been multi-pronged - when the government takes the issue to the Centre and the Supreme Court, the political parties adopt the agitational approach. Andhra Pradesh views the Paragodu dam project as yet another attempt by Karnataka to deprive it, the lower riparian …
In the Kannada language, the word kere means a man-made or natural water tank, and the word for the numeral nine is ombhatthu , pronounced colloquially as vombatthu . The author's surname, which means nine water tanks, is derived from the fact that in the 19 th and the early …
even as Karnataka chief minister S M Krishna set off on his statewide tour of temples to invoke the rain gods, the water level in Mysore's Krishna Raja Sagar (krs) reservoir plunged to an all-time low of 65.68 feet. The krs dam is built on the Cauvery basin, which is …
Illegal variants of GM seeds are threatening the future of cotton in India The biotech revolution in India has turned into a nightmare. At least in Gujarat, where cotton farmers are happily using illegal versions of genetically-modified (GM) cotton seeds. The so-called regulator set up by the environment ministry, the …
Thirty years after banning manual scavenging under the Night Soil Carrying System Abolition Act, Karnataka is still a fair way away from flushing it out of the system. On April 25, 2003, though, a minuscule step was taken in this direction when the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) inaugurated a mobile …
a recent development is bound to bring a smile on many faces. A high-yielding variety of wheat has been given the green signal for commercial cultivation in Maharashtra and Karnataka. Scientists from the New Delhi-based Indian Agricultural Research Institute (iari) have developed the new strain
the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) has taken Karnataka to task over the implementation of an administrative reorganisation plan by the state forest department (fd) in May. In a sternly worded letter to the chief secretary of Karnataka, the moef reprimanded the state fd for placing two protected …
during Tipu Sultan's reign over Mysore in the 18th century, the sandalwood tree was accorded royal status and brought under state control. Today the Karnataka government ostensibly allows private production of sandalwood, but actually maintains a tight rein on the trade. In fact, eight months after the notification of amendments …
