Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
P M Raghunandan, Bangalore, Apr 14, DHNS: Rise in prices of essential commodities may have scourged the middle class most, but they are not ready to consume the PDS (public distribution system) rice (also called ration akki) available at lesser price despite it being good quality. Consider this: The State …
Muralidhara Khajane Not one elephant has been electrocuted in Chamarajanagar in the last 18 months MYSORE: Even as the Forest Department is planning to erect elephant-proof barricades to a length of 547 km in different wildlife sanctuaries in Karnataka to reduce man-animal conflict, forest officials of Chamarajanagar have succeeded in …
Forests provide wide range of ecosystem services and thereby help communities to derive many direct and indirect benefits. Forest watershed services of absorbing rain water and releasing it slowly, allowing it to seep into the soil preventing run-off with sediments helps communities downstream to maximise the benefits from crop cultivation. …
CHAMARAJANAGAR: Members of the Chamarajanagar Taluk Panchayat have alleged that officials of the Watershed Development Department have misappropriated a large amount of funds under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) by executing work that was of poor quality. At a meeting here on Thursday, a member, Mahadev, requested the …
The Soliga tribe in the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Hills of Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka has maintained a continuous and intimate interaction with the forest, deriving most of its basic requirements from the forests. The Soligas used to engage in shifting cultivation and collection of non-timber forest produce which was harvested …
An assistant sub-inspector attached to Chamarajanagar Rural Police Station, B Basavegowda (52) has been trampled to death by a wild tusker near Yettegowdanadoddi forest range, on Karnataka-Tamil Nadu Border on Monday. According to police, both Basavegowda and another police constable, Ravi were going on their two wheeler to Kolipallya in …
DH News Service,Mysore: To check the growing wild elephant-human conflicts, In-charge Deputy Conservator of Forests Yatish Kumar mooted a plan on the lines of South Africa to prevent wild elephants straying into human habitat in Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts. In South Africa, railway tracks have been used as fence and …
Tribal communities are a rich source of traditional knowledge. Initiatives that respect their knowledge while taking them through the process of development could be enriching to all the partners involved. Here is a case of a partnership which has been mutually enriching.
Laiqh A. Khan KOLLEGAL (Chamarajanagar district): After a 16-year lull, the forest areas of Kollegal region on Karnataka's border with Tamil Nadu will begin to resonate with the sound of explosives and the drone of excavators and trucks as quarrying for the valuable black granite is all set to resume. …
The Biligiri Rangaswamy (BR) Hills are in the Yelanur Taluka of Chamrajanagar District of Karnataka. In the midst of these hills lies the 540 square kilometre Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary (BRT WLS). This area is also the traditional home of the indigenous Soliga people who have lived here for …
The Karnataka government recently signalled its intention to renew granite quarrying licences in the Malai Madeshwara hills in Chamarajnagar district. Quarrying was banned in 1992, when the area was under the sway of Veerappan. But with the sandalwood smuggler out of its way, the state government believes that resumption of …
In 2002-2004, Karnataka's S.M. Krishna government blamed farmers' suicides on alcoholism and gambling. This time around, the authorities cannot ignore the bitter harvest and its aftermath. In Bidar district alone, 48 farmers have killed themselves since July 2006. All of them were sugarcane cultivators. .News of suicides is trickling in …
