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 …
when eight Karnataka forest department personnel held hostage by Veerappan were released in end-August after 45 days in captivity, the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu state governments
The Karnataka High Court recently awarded damages worth Rs 21,000 to a petitioner Muniswamy Gowda, who had accused a rice milling industry of damaging his health. The court ordered the state government, the chairperson of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) and the owner of the rice milling industry to …
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (AP) are heading for yet another water dispute with a public interest litigation being filed in the AP High Court, challenging the Karnataka government's decision to divert some water from the Tungabhadra reservoir at Hospet, AP. Karnataka has decided to increase the height of the Upper …
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------D RAJASEKHAR, BANGALORE The Agricultural Development and Training Society (ADATS), has been leading more than 14,000 coolies (landless labourers and poor farmers) towards sustainable development in 691 villages of Bagepalli taluk (province) in Kolar district of Karnataka since 1977. The society aims at building up a mass agricultural labourer …
After months of political wrangling, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (AP) are heading for a major legal showdown to assert their rights on Alamatti dam. Both have filed separate lawsuits in the Supreme Court (SC). The move came after an expert committee endorsed the arguments of the AP government opposing Karnataka's …
On the Comptroller and Auditor General's (cag) report tabled in the Karnataka Assembly in 1996, which identified 10,888 polluting industries in the state (till March 1995): In 1992, some of the industries were exempted (from seeking environmental clearance), under the exempted category of non-polluting industries, which meant that we could …
In another case of delinquency, the Karnataka High Court has censured the Karnataka pollution control board (PCB) for its inaction in "matters relating to serious instances of water pollution". The court also quoted instances wherein the government itself had prevented action against "errant parties or interfered with the proceedings and …
Karnataka has won the latest round of the legal battle over the construction of Almatti dam across the river Krishna. The Supreme Court recently rejected a petition seeking a stay on the construction of the dam. The court was ruling on a special leave petition by the Karnataka government and …
On not being assigned any environmental cases, although he is known for being interested in environmental affairs: I have been deliberately kept away from anything to do with the environment as far as assignments are concerned. The reason for not assigning any such case to me can only be answered …
"the last thing this place needs is an environmental journalist,' a senior secretary of Karnataka's mining department had said, referring to Bellary. Situated in mid-eastern Karnataka, drought-prone Bellary district is home to the mineral-rich Sandur hills. Extensive deposits of iron and manganese ores, besides those of red oxide, platinum, copper, …
• Compulsory afforestation by lessees • Blanket ban on mining in forest areas • Revision of mining royalty rates concurrent with steel prices • Mandatory ecological measures on industrial lands such as groundwater recharging measures • Mandatory social welfare schemes • Incentives for R&D; in conservation technology
green activists are up in arms against the ongoing work on the Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka. They have stalled work on the project's transmission line which cuts through the Western Ghats, posing a threat to the precious flora in the area. Local residents and green activists under the …
the louder you shout and the more noise you make, the greater is your chance of succeeding: this seems to be the mantra of both Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (ap) politicians on the contentious issue of the Alamatti dam (over the Krishna river in Karnataka). The dam is part of …
The Alamatti controversy is only one among the many continuing river disputes, which more than anything else, underscore the failure of tribunals as dispute resolving mechanisms. Here is a list of some such lingering irritants; international river water disputes that India has with Nepal and Bangladesh have not been taken …
tribals residing in the Nagarhole National Park in Mysore, Karnataka, are up in arms against the proposed eco-development project which is being funded by the World Bank (wb). They contend that the project will displace them and deprive them of their economic and cultural rights. The wb is aiding the …
in order to overcome the problem of siltation and decreasing water storage capacity, the Central Water Commission (cwc) is examining a proposal to increase the height of the Tungabhadra dam in Karnataka. The proposal is on for quite some time and assumes greater significance as the farmers of Kurnool, Anantapur …
Bangalore-based scientist C N Sastri has developed a non-toxic eco- friendly insecticide called bugsac. The insecticide -which is prepared from purely herbal ingredients - acts at both the cerebral and cellular levels. It causes the coagulation of the body fluid system of insects, resulting in immediate death. Bugsac is effective …
ATTEMPTS to industrialise the district of Bidar in Karnataka have backfired because they seem to have brought in more misery in the form of widespread pollution than prosperity to the region. The struggle launched by the locals is targeted at some drug factories in the area that have inundated it …
BANGALORE'S perrenial problem of water shortage is now in need of urgent alleviation measures. Two gauging stations on upstream Cauvery have recently 'judged an availability of 300 cusecs of water for the city under average rainfall conditions. At an altitude of 840-940 m, Bangalore is located in the watershed area …
