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 …
IN THE early hours of December 21, 1995, a group of fisherfolk assembled in thousands and staged a rasta roko (road block) on the National Highway No 17 at Byukampadi and Kulai, about eight km from Mangalore. They were protesting against the laying of a pipeline by the Mangalore Refinery …
THE dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu regarding the distribution of the Cauvery river water in the winter of 1995, had become a constitutional crisis, Early this year, the Narasimha Rao government appointed a three- member panel which was expected to submit a report to the Centre after assessing the …
THE Karnataka government seems to have turned a blind eye to the Forest Conservation Act, 1980, while authorising district forest officers to grant leases for quarrying in forest lands across the state. Until recently, the mines and geology department had the sole controlling authority for issuing quarrying licence in the …
OCCAMISM and chicanery marked the latest in the annual ritual of the Cauvery dispute, with the Prime Minister, P V Narasimha Rao, ordering Karnataka to release six thousand million cubic feet (TMCF) of water to Tamil Nadu immediately at the Supreme Court's behest. This being an election year, Rao's :ward', …
Bowing to the pressure of the Dakshina Kannada fisherfolk in Karnataka, the state government has finally directed Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) to instal a modern recycling plant and build a one-km long open canal for discharging effluents into the Arabian Sea after removing MRPL's pipelines. The MRPL has …
A N Yellappa Reddy, secretary, department of ecology and environment, government of Karnataka, spoke to Down To Earth about the unique sacred and medicinal plant resorts that have come up in the state. The Dhanvantarivana - named after the legendary ancient Indian surgeon - is a 11.34 hectares (ha) resort …
Large-scale episodal mortality among the freshwater fishes of certain lakes of Bangalore City, Karnataka State, India occurred in June 1995. We conducted an intensive study of the Sankey Lake which is situated in Sadashiva Nagar of Bangalore city where fish mortality occurred on quite a large scale during June - …
THE Karastaka government has been Facing pressure from the industry since Long to open up land ceiling limits for agricultural lands. Principal add the deal are Sterling Tree Magnum(STM) and Anubhav Plantation in raising commercial timber like teak wood plantations. These concerns have been buying all over India but in …
LOSS of hearing can now be completely overcome with the aid of a new implant developed at the Kasturba Hospital in Manipal, Karnataka. Unlike the bearing aids, the implant converts the codes received as electric signals, which are then sent to the electrodes to stimulate the hearing nerve fibres. The …
The decision of the Karnataka Pollution Control Board (KPCB) to identify 3 sites in Mysore district for dumping hazardous wastes from industries has run into rough weather, with the local people strongly opposing the plan. They fear that the sites, each measuring about 10.12 ha with storage capacities of up …
The Dakshina Kannada district will become Karnataka's showpiece of industrial development, the state government has been saying. However, a study begun in 1993 has projected a rather depressing environmental scenario. The report tabled in February warns that uncontrolled industrialisation will have "dire implications" for the area's terrestrial, riverine and marine …
It seemed too good to be true. A recent order of the Karnataka government allowed the 650 tribal families living in a part of the Rajiv Gandhi National Park to collect minor forest produce to build homes within the forest. The order also initiated the process of setting up public …
March 24, 1994. 3 pm. Basappa Bovi of Guttur village of Harihar taluka in Karnataka, who grows watermelons on the banks of the Tungabhadra, was walking down the riverside when a horrifying sight stopped him dead in his tracks. A sea of fish -- most dead, some gasping for breath …
In 1985, the Transnational Centre, a social action group, took the matter of industrial effluents polluting the Tungabhadra to the Karnataka High Court. The organisation detailed the various changes that polluting effluents set in motion in a river. The petition explains that when waste is dumped into a river, the …
In March, 1992, the District Committee for Science and Technology, Dharwad, an independent body set up by the state government, sent a team of scientists to take water samples from the Tungabhadra and examine the people of villages located along the banks of the river. Following are the main points …
The Karnataka government has joined in the vociferous opposition to the Kaiga nuclear power plant, under pressure from political parties and environmental groups. Deputy chief minster S M Krishna said the state government will urge Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao to suspend work on the plant in Uttara Kannada …
The Konkan Railway Corp (KRC) was caught off guard when the Karnataka agriculture minister, H M Revanna, chose to let loose a tirade against the project. The state government has always come out in the support of the project, dismissing the apprehensions raised by environmentalists about problematic ecological consequences. Speaking …
A strong protest movement is taking shape over the Kaiga Atomic Power Project of the National Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL), near Karwar in western Karnataka. The movement has gained momentum since a 130-tonne section of the inner containment dome of the plant collapsed in May 13 this year, …
THE TRAIN from Londa to Dharwar on the Miraj-Bangalore metre gauge in Karnataka passes through the jungles on the fringe of the Western Ghats. I asked my co-passengers, Hussainbi and Moinbi, a mother-daughter duo which is responsible for denuding these jungles. They are both headloaders. For the past 15 years, …
THE endangered lion-tailed macaque has become the mascot of the environmental agitation against the Sharavathy Tail Race Hydroelectric Project in Karnataka. Concerned about its negative impact on local biodiversity, environmentalists like Kusuma Sorab, G S Bhat, Ranganath and Mahabaleshwar have been agitating against the project ever since it was mooted. …
