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 …
The proposed Rs.2,000 crore KGS Aranmula international airport project in Kerala can go ahead if its promoters get the required environment clearance, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said Friday. The proposed project suffered a huge setback Wednesday when a tribunal cancelled its environment clearance. "The state government is not going for …
The Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday restrained KGS International Airport Ltd. from setting up the proposed greenfield airport at Aranmula in Pathanamthitta district. The Bench of judicial member Justice M. Chockalingam and expert member R. Nagendran passed the order on some petitions from the Aranmula …
The tribunal has also ordered KGS Group, the promoters of the project, to stop all the construction activities going on at the project The Chennai Bench of the National Green Tribunal [NGT] today cancelled the environment clearance given to the Aranmula Airport project, in Kerala. The tribunal has also ordered …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Sreeranganathan K.P. Vs Union of India & Others dated 29/05/2014 regarding granting of Environmental Clearance to M/s. KGS Aranmula Air Port Ltd., to set up an airport at Mallappuzhasserry, Aranmula and Kidangannur villages in Kozencherry taluk of …
BJP Govt May Halt The Implementation Of Kasturi Report The state may suffer a setback in implementing projects like the proposed Aranmula international airport and Kasturirangan committee report as the BJP , in its run up to the election campaign, had come out openly against both issues. The BJP had …
Says Region Waterlogged Property Now The state government has claimed that the proposed Aranmula airport would not be coming up on a wetland. In a counter affidavit filed at the Chennai bench of National Green Tribunal in the case challenging environmental clearance for the project, the environment department says the …
Former minister and CPI leader Mullakkara Ratnakaran on Tuesday inaugurated an indefinite satyagraha against the proposed Aranmula airport project organised by the anti-Aranmula airport coordination council. Activists representing various organisations working for the protection of wetlands and paddy fields at Aranmula joined the protest. "A very small portion of Rs …
Elephant that fed on plastic waste dead Stung by the death of a wild elephant which fed on plastic refuses, Forest Department officials are contemplating a ban on plastic in Pampa, Sannidhanam and Nilakkal areas of Sabarimala. Discarded plastic refuses are posing threat to ecology and wild animals in the …
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Wednesday refused to stay the proceedings initiated by the Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in connection with the implementation of an airport project at Aranmula in Pathanamthitta district. The NGT had restrained KGS Aranmula Airport Limited from executing …
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Wednesday asked the State Pollution Control Board (PCB) to state whether any study had been conducted by it on the proposed Aranmula airport project. The Bench comprising Justice T.R. Ramachandran Nair and Justice B Kemal Pasha asked the counsel for the …
Centre, State, and airport firm told to file replies before January 31. Work on the Aranmula airport cannot begin till the Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) issues further orders. The tribunal, on Tuesday, extended its last month’s interim order restraining KGS Aranmula Airport Ltd. from executing the …
Health Dept Statistics Caution Against Diarrhoea Though the state boasts of high health standards, statistics revealed by the health department indicates severe threat from several communicable diseases. The data from 2006 to 2013 show that the state has been witnessing a rapid increase in the prevalence of communicable diseases, with …
Foresees serious environmental and ecological implications The Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) has warned against conversion of wetlands for the Aranmula airport project, as it will have serious environmental and ecological implications. A report prepared by a KSBB team, on the basis of the third report submitted by the Kerala …
Council urges Ministry to cancel clearance, send team The State government and the KGS Group, a private company, managed to obtain environment clearance for the Aranmula airport project by furnishing totally misleading and false information to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), the Aranmula Heritage Village Action Council …
5 firms likely to ask for rethink on application to open new quarries As many as five firms may ask for reconsideration of their application for opening new granite quarries in Western Ghats, invoking an order of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest. The applications of firms for opening …
Activists Point Out Loopholes The expert appraisal committee of ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) gave environmental clearance to the Rs 2,000 crore Aranmula international airport, ignoring key issues such as reclamation of paddy fields, land acquisition, social and cultural disruption of people in an entire locality. Aranumula residents point …
Ministry rejected all objections raised by several organisations, people living in the vicinity of the proposed airport The Ministry of Environment and Forests has cleared the proposed Aranmula international airport in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala. The ministry released the order giving full environmental clearance to the project, rejecting all the …
No government could implement projects such as the proposed airport at Aranmula disregarding public sentiments against it, especially in aspects of nature conservation, food security and socio-human capital stocks, Madhav Gadgil, ecologist and chairman of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP), has said. Prof. Gadgil, who was in the …
Participates in Navaratri festival in Padmanabapuram Palace Reiterating the Kerala government’s position on the Mullaperiyar dam, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said his government would not compromise on the safety of the dam, a matter concerning lakhs of people living in many districts of that State. After participating in the inauguration …
World Rivers Day is being observed today Even as World Rivers Day is observed on Sunday, the Central Travancore region, comprising Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, and parts of Alappuzha, is fast becoming a graveyard of rivers and natural streams owing to indiscriminate sand-mining, encroachments, and pollution. The Pampa, regarded as the lifeline …
