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 …
Petitioner accused KMML of not following tender norms The Kerala High Court on Wednesday set aside the contract awarded by Kerala Minerals and Metals Ltd (KMML) for mining and transportation of mineral sand from Kovilthottam, near Chavara in Kollam, to TVK Constructions Company. The Bench comprising Justice K.T. Sankaran and …
Govt Yields To Public Opposition, Not To Set Up CIAL-Model Co Unable to overcome public opposition, the state government has finally decided to drop the proposal to set up a CIALmodel Kerala Drinking Water Supply Company. Putting an end to the speculations against privatizing drinking water supply and limiting the …
The survey was undertaken during the period from October -2012 to September -2013 in the Vattakkayal, Sakthikulangara panchayath, Kollam district. The major objective of this study was to find out the biodiversity status of fishes in Vattakkayal of Kollam district, South India.
With a ban on bringing in captive elephants from other States in force coupled with the Forest Department putting an end to issuing ownership certificates for elephants, the captive elephant population of the State has plunged from more than 750 three years ago to less that 500 now. While this …
‘Illegal sand-mining rampant in almost all rivers in Kerala’ Environment organisations have called upon the State government not to permit sand-mining in rivers and coastal areas without conducting the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) as stipulated by the National Green Tribunal. They said illegal sand-mining was rampant in almost all rivers …
20 agencies have been entrusted with mapping and sand auditing of 20 rivers in State The Assembly Committee on Environment will keep a tab on the river mapping and sand auditing being undertaken by various agencies on 20 river systems in Kerala. Chairman of the Committee C.P. Mohammed told The …
Vincent Island has over 15 hectares of mangroves The estuarine Vincent Island on Ashtamudi Lake at Shakthikulangara in Kollam is a private property covered by over 15 hectares of rich mangrove forests. The island is the only place in India where the rare yellow mangrove ( Ceriops tagal ) is …
Revenue Minister Adoor Prakash has announced an assistance of Rs.13.43 crore for the implementation of various projects for the conservation of rivers in the district. Kollam district has been allocated Rs. 7.11 crore for river conservation, Rs. 3.74 crore to Pathanamthitta, Rs. 5.51 crore to Thrissur, Rs. 7.94 crore to …
The National Institute of Virology's unit in Kerala has detected and confirmed through full genome sequencing the evidence of a new strain of West Nile Virus (WNV) and its association with human cases in India. The virus, transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes, can cause a fatal …
The state has decided to conduct a research to find out whether any genetic changes have occurred to the dengue virus found in the state. For this the state health department has reached an agreement with the national virology institute in Pune, said health minister V S Sivakumar. Meanwhile, the …
State had demanded Rs.7,888 crore The Union government has sanctioned a drought-relief package of Rs.107 crore to Kerala. The amount was sanctioned by the National Disaster Management Committee, headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, to carry out long-term agricultural projects and to resolve drinking water shortage in some districts. State’s …
Alternative water supply schemes to be ready within a year The State government has made an allocation of Rs.24.8 crore for conserving and protecting the Sasthamcotta freshwater lake. The declaration was made by Additional Chief Secretary V.J. Kurien in the presence of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy at a meeting held …
As many as 141 confirmed cases of dengue fever and five deaths suspected to be of dengue were reported in the State on Wednesday. One death due to suspected leptospirosis was reported from Kollam, taking the toll of fever-related casualties on Wednesday to six. Of the 141 cases, 88 cases …
Unscientific disposal of sewage and pesticide residue from farmlands have contributed to organic pollution and chemical contamination of surface and groundwater resources in four river basins across the State, namely Valapattanam in Kannur, Kallada in Kollam, Keecheri-Puzhakkal in Thrissur, and Chandragiri in Kasaragod district. An environmental monitoring programme on water …
Licensed granite miners have extracted more of the scarce natural resource than they should from the government sanctioned quarries in Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram districts in Kerala, according to the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) investigators. The massive fraud, which has caused irreversible environmental damage in vast swathes of hilly land …
High incidence of Hepatitis A in two grama panchayats A study conducted by the district unit of the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project into the reported high incidence of Hepatitis A infection in Thrikovilvattam and Mayyanad grama panchayats on the outskirts of Kollam city found that the disease spread from a …
Environmentalists have welcomed the intervention of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in protecting the Sasthamcotta freshwater lake in Kollam district. Mr. Chandy will chair a high-level meeting in this regard on May 8. Terming it a step in the right direction, eco-activist V.K. Madhusudhanan, who had been taking up the cause …
Syzygium travncoricum, a tree endemic to Kerala, is no longer ‘critically endangered’ as classified on the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Field studies conducted by the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) in the wake of the IUCN classification suggest that the tree can now …
A large area of the freshwater lake has turned grassland threatening the Ramsar site The State’s largest freshwater lake and one of the 26 Ramsar sites in the country, Sasthamcotta Lake in the district is fast becoming a grassland. While there are frequent government announcements of substantial fund allocations for …
IPPAI Conference,April 10 - Ancillary Services, New Technology and Alternate options Moves afoot to form task force under the Revenue Department The Industries Department is understood to have mooted a proposal for constituting a task force under the Mining and Geology Department to check the exploitation and transportation of metals …
