Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Every year, before monsoons, the spectre resurrects, grabs headlines and is buried in a few months. Malnutrition deaths of children in Maharashtra first made news a decade ago. Since then, committees have been appointed, schemes have been announced
These are the guidelines issued by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board for environment friendly immersion of idols. Ganesh Idols are immersed in water bodies. Such water bodies include rivers, lakes, ponds, estuaries, open coastal beaches, wells etc. Consequent pollution of such water bodies has been a matter of concern and …
A major accident that hit a platform of Bombay High (bh), India's largest offshore oil facility, on July 26, 2005, has put a question mark on the safety measures taken by the country in oil-exploration activities. The fire killed 12 employees of the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ongc) …
Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration has banned the sale of Rajnigandha brand of pan masala on the ground that it contains magnesium carbonate, a probable carcinogen the sale of which in the form of gutkha or pan masala is banned in the state. Acting on a consumer complaint, fda conducted …
india's commercial capital Mumbai recorded its highest ever rainfall of 944 millimetres (mm) in 24 hours on July 26-27, 2005. The city was flooded, with water levels as high as three-four metres in some areas. A total of 452 people had died due to the disaster by August 6, 2005; …
Maharashtra's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned the sale of popular energy drink Red Bull in the state on the charge that it contains ingredients of animal origin. Some media reports alleged that one of the enzymes used in the drink comes from the bile of oxen. Red Bull …
The Rural Employment Guarantee Bill, 2004 is based on the Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Act (MEGA), 1977. Maharashtra is the only Indian state to have an employment guarantee act. MEGA promises every adult person in Maharashtra's rural areas the right to paid unskilled manual work through the year. But then it …
Forest officials at the Melghat tiger reserve (mtr) have a strange predicament: the management plan of this 1,676.93 square kilometre (sq km) reserve in Maharashtra’s Amravati district cannot be executed, even though the state’s chief wildlife warden gave it his assent way back in November 2003. The plan waxes eloquent …
Melghat's management plan has a separate chapter on the multiple-use area (MUA). Different zones within the area are set aside for activities such as soil and moisture conservation, meadow development and weed eradication. A plan is also in place for bamboo harvesting in the MUA, Working scheme for bamboo bearing …
In 1985, 1,315.65 sq km of the mtr was notified as a sanctuary and people in the 61 villages within this protected area lost all their traditional rights over forests. After the 1994 mua notification, 22 villages were left within the sanctuary. In 2001-2002, three of them
Letter from Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to the Secretary, MOEF on the environmental clearance for a tourism project/hill station in Mulshi and Velhe Talukas of Pune District, Maharashtra dated July 15 2005.
the Bombay High Court (hc) recently directed the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (mpcb) to take punitive action, including closure, against 180 hotels in Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani for non-compliance with prescribed sewage treatment norms. The action is to be taken by June 30, 2005. The order came in response to a …
andhra Pradesh (ap) has sent a third memo to Maharashtra, asking it to stop the construction of the Rs 1,200 crore Babli hydropower project on river Godavari. At a recent press conference, ap's irrigation minister P Lakshamaiah said the state government would do anything to block the project, but he …
Maharashtra's innovative scheme for protecting its carnivore population and managing growing human-animal conflict brings much needed hope at a time when the entire country is incensed over dwindling tiger populations. The Maharashtra forest department (mfd) has created five wild carnivore rescue teams (wcrts) to handle emergency situations when animals enter …
