Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
the Madhya Pradesh government set a very bad precedent for the cleaning up of contaminated environments. While starting the cleanup at the Union Carbide factory site in Bhopal, the state authorities failed to observe the basic criterion for safety: protecting the community living around the factory. Worse, they did not …
function graph() { var popurl="files/images/20050731/26-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=400,height=300,scrollbars=yes") } Here is a piquant contradiction: forest-rich states in India are beginning to grumble about the natural wealth they possess, and are protecting. In his speech to the 12 th Finance Commission (fc), Virbhadra Singh, chief minister of Himachal Pradesh
I n India, forest evaluation is an emergent practice. And those that have done so have realised its immense utility: the benefits from Himachal Pradesh's (hp's) forests, Verma's evaluation shows, are 2.61 times the value of the growing stock, 980 times the total expenditure incurred by the state's forestry sector …
A Rojgar Adhikar Yatra (a journey for employment rights), through some of the 150 districts where the National Food for Work Programme (nfwp) is underway, has found that rampant corruption afflicts the programme. The findings are significant because the nfwp is touted as the forerunner to a comprehensive employment guarantee …
Although, the rate of literacy is higher in Bhopal as compared to other cities of the state, the women folk are still ignorant of recent technological developments and the aquaculture technology is no exception. In view of this perspective, the Department of Applied Aquaculture, Barkatullah University, Bhopal implemented a training …
Environmentalists fear Scheduled Tribe Bill will put India's forest cover at stake. Matkuli is the base camp as you begin your climb towards Pachmarhi. Located inside a 1,500 sq km Project Tiger area comprising two sanctuaries and one national park, it has grown from a small village of 50-odd houses …
On December 3 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killing at least 3,800 people and causing significant morbidity and premature death for many thousands more. The company involved in what became the worst industrial accident in history immediately …
The people of Dobjhirna village, barely 5 kilometres (km) from the town of Semri in Madhya Pradesh's Hoshangabad district are furious. Not without reason. The land they have tilled for 15 years is to be taken away from them to relocate people from another village, Dhai, which lies in the …
68 people dead and 40 missing, and it wasn't a natural disaster. Nor an accident. A dam released water in Madhya Pradesh, just like it used to every day. Only this time, thousands of people had gathered for a dip in the river Narmada 25 km downstream of the dam. …
Malnutrition deaths of children in a tribal hamlet point to the general state of welfare programmes in Madhya Pradesh. Two-year-old Suresh Sahariya of Patalgarh village has just been discharged from the district hospital in Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh. With his distended stomach, hollow eyes, and decaying and falling teeth, it seems …
function graph() { var popurl="image/20050415/7-graph.pdf" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=550,height=350,scrollbars=yes") } the Panna Tiger Reserve (ptr) in Madhya Pradesh (mp) is reported to be
This article is based on the findings of a recent survey of the midday meal programme in Madhya Pradesh. Comparison of the new ‘suruchi bhojan’ with the old ‘daliya’ programme in the government primary schools in the survey area and observations on programme implementation in Karnataka, suggest a pressing need …
Kill it, let it die, let's not drag this colossal waste. Bankruptcy with monthly losses totaling Rs 5 crore, indignity of unpaid salaries for 11,500 staff members who help run only 1500 buses forced this euthanasia on the government-run bus transit undertaking in Madhya Pradesh. But we were probably expecting …
understanding the dynamics of human migration is essential to prevent spread of malaria to new areas, according to a study published in the December 2004 issue of Current Science (Vol 87, No 12). Researchers from the Malaria Research Centre in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh cite the example of the malaria epidemic …
in madhya Pradesh (mp), the Indian Tobacco Company (itc) has been buying foodgrains directly from farmers. On December 12, traders operating in mandis (wholesale foodgrain markets) all over mp went on an indefinite strike in protest against this practice, saying it would make them redundant and even wipe out the …
in a move that might set an example for other states, the Madhya Pradesh (mp) government has decided to abolish the mp State Road Transport Corporation (mpsrtc). Nearly 11,500 employees will be affected by the action. Chief Minister Babulal Gaur said on January 2, 2005, that the body will be …
theMadhya Pradesh (mp) government had hired a consultancy to suggest ways of managing the mp State Road Transport Corporation (mpsrtc). Before the consultant could give a report, the state government announced its decision to shut down the corporation (see p15). It could have saved the money spent on the consultancy …
What happens when it is discovered that two departments of the government, namely the Forest Department and the Revenue Department,have committed grave errors in discharging their duties, especially when the error has led to the denial of certain sonstitutional rights to lakhs of people? The Orange Area land dispute is …
Soil and water conservation measures are meant to reduce soil erosion and utilize rainwater. The measures include construction of contour bunds, contour trenches, graded terraces, check dams, dugout ponds, open wells, and similar other works. Some of the works done by the agencies of the Madhya Pradesh Govt. are analyzed …
