BHOPAL: Solar power intervention and promotion in villages of Khandwa region of Madhya Pradesh is not only changing lives by helping cutting down household expenses of residents with savings on fuel bills, but has affected students in these villages the most by helping them increase their study hours. According to …
BHOPAL: Solar power intervention and promotion in villages of Khandwa region of Madhya Pradesh is not only changing lives by helping cutting down household expenses of residents with savings on fuel bills, but has affected students in these villages the most by helping them increase their study hours. According to …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Shramik Adivasi Sangathan Vs State of Madhya Pradesh & Others dated 12/08/2016 regarding illegal excavations by various private persons including contractors and violations of the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 in Harda, Betul and Khandwa Districts of Madhya Pradesh. HISTORY …
AAP leaders here handed over a memorandum to Madhya Pradesh Governor Ramnaresh Yadav today seeking the work of setting up of second phase of Shri Singhaji Thermal Power Station in Khandwa be stopped in order to save money of tax payers. "We have handed over a memorandum to Governor seeking …
Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh: Farmer Bablu Chouhan is waging a daily battle to clear the constant barrage of fly ash, which is turning his 5-acre farmland in Dogalia village barren. Almost all his family members are ill. The fly ash is coming from two 500-hectare ponds, where the Shree Singaji Thermal …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jagannath Mane Vs Union of India & Others dated 29/01/2016 regarding Environmental Clearances granted for the purpose of carrying out stone mining in the land bearing Khasra No. 748 of village Nahalda, Teshil and District Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh. NGT dismisses …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Jagannath Mane Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 19/03/2015 on whether the industrial estate located in village Turfikunbi, District Khandwa is a forest land and therefore in terms of the provisions of the Forest (Conservation) …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jalindar Piraji Dhanwate Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/02/2014 regarding grant of mining lease and / or establishment of Stone Crusher on separate pieces of land in Khandwa District. It is alleged that the entire land in Khasra …
PUNE: Researchers studying the critically endangered Forest Owlet in Madhya Pradesh hope to start a similar project in Maharashtra's Melghat tiger reserve soon. The reserve contains the largest known population of the bird found only in India. Being a protected area, it offers greater safety to the habitat of the …
HARSUD (KHANDWA): 'Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to drink' the lines from Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' has come true for residents of Harsud in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh. Pratappur, a nondescript village of 200 families, despite being surrounded by water from all sides after construction of …
Protesters demand Indira Sagar Dam water level be kept below 260 metres The Jal Satyagraha or sit-in-water agitation by villagers affected by the Indira Sagar Dam entered its tenth day on Tuesday despite curfew and arrests. The agitation is currently in progress in six villages in the districts of Dewas, …
With arrest of another 125 oustees from Bichhola village of Harda district on Tuesday, the number of arrested jal satyagrahis from Khandwa, Dewas and Harda has crossed 1,000 mark in the three days. Arrests have failed to dampen the spirit dam-hit and they continued their protest against increase in dam …
Despite a crackdown on their jal satyagraha, the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activists are undeterred by the arrests of villagers in the Narmada ghatti. Hundreds of displaced people in Malud village in Khandwa district have entered the water demanding proper rehabilitation including land for the loss of their fields, farms …
Hundreds of people from Khandwa, Dewas and Harda including senior Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Chittaroopa Palit were arrested on Sunday by police as soon as they started jal satyagrah to raise the issue of affected villagers of the Indira Sagar dam. However, affected villagers started jal satyagrah at new …
Seek extension of deadline for Omkareshwar evacuation Around a thousand Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activists staged a protest in front of the Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) here on Monday, against the delay in rehabilitation of evictees of five dams. More than 200 policemen in riot gear manned barricades from …
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Sitapur: Taking a cue from their counterparts in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh, who participated in neck-deep ‘Jal Satyagraha’ in September 2012 demanding the lowering of the water level in the Omkareshwar dam, as many as 1,500 residents of Kashipur village and some others from the neighbouring Kamharia and Barhinpurwa …
While a ministerial committee began hearing grievances of oustees of the Omkareshwar dam in Madhya Pradesh, Narmada Bachao Andolan activists met President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday. The state government had constituted a five-member panel after reducing water level at the Omkareshwar dam to 189 m which ended an NBA-led agitation …
Barely a couple of hours after police evicted protesters from a 'Jal Satyagraha' today, about 50 persons from villages near Khardana entered the Narmada river demanding reduction of the Indira Sagar dam height and immediate resolution of other issues. Around 50 persons entered the river after police arrested over 100 …
Bowing to pressure following sustained television coverage of the Narmada Bachao Andolan’s ‘Jal Satyagraha’, the Madhya Pradesh government on Monday lowered the water level in the Omkareshwar reservoir to 189 m. As the NBA called off the agitation and hailed “people’s victory”, the government pointed out the move would deprive …
New Delhi: While the first responsibility of addressing issues of oustees of the Omkareshwar dam project lies with the Madhya Pradesh Government, activists say the Centre, especially ministries of Power, Water Resources, Environment and Tribal Affairs, cannot be absolved for their liabilities and here’s why. Himanshu Thakkar of the South …
