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 …
Almost 10 months after the Central government’s flagship scheme Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) was launched in Maharashtra, the state government has been able to zero in on merely two projects to be sent to the Centre for approval under the scheme. While the state government was to address the issue …
IMPHAL, April 26 – Power-starved Northeast States, including Manipur, should initiate steps to replicate the idea of tapping renewable power as in and around Maharashtra’s Nagpur city. This was shared by almost all the 20 journalists from Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh who recently toured Nagpur to witness the various agro-based …
MUMBAI: Maharashtra's 13 power-generating plants, which supply power to the state and 30 other industrial units, are among the country's top 478 manufacturing establishments guzzling a major chunk of the country's fuel, mainly furnace oil. These set-ups have been asked by the union power ministry to reduce their current energy …
The SC deadline for notifying buffer areas around each tiger reserve is being cheered by the greens. But court orders alone cannot alter the grim ground reality. A primer HOW On 3 April, the Supreme Court directed state governments to demarcate and notify buffer zones around critical tiger habitats (CTH) …
The environment ministry will not accept any proposal for new and expansion projects in four major coal fields — Korba, Asansol, Chandrapur and Dhanbad — as no measures have been taken to reduce environmental pollution. The four coalfields are among the 18 industrial clusters with a high environmental — air, …
The Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary in Adilabad district — where a new tiger reserve is being established but is opposed by tribals — has lost 27 sq km of dense forest area between 2000 and 2010 due to cutting of trees and encroachments. In the Jannaram Forest Division, in which Kawal …
India has made a long journey in the field of irrigation by raising the irrigation coverage from 22.6 million ha in 1951 to 100 million ha in 2005. Consequently the food-grain production was raised from 50 million tons to 210 tons in above period. However from the past experience, it …
Coal mining poses a serious threat to tigers in Chandrapur region of Maharashtra near the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) and must be reined in, says a report by the Fact Finding Mission of Greenpeace India. The mission consisting of wildlife experts Praveen Bhargav and Biswajit Mohanty and environmental lawyer Rahul …
Cost escalation made Maharashtra's power generation company reconsider present site in Dhule district. The Sakri solar power plant in Maharashtra's Dhule district is touted as the world's largest solar power plant till date. Sometime ago there was a proposal to shift the plant to Chandrapur district in Vidarbha region following …
Coal mining poses a serious threat to tigers in Chandrapur region, near the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve and must be reined in says this report by the Fact Finding Mission to the area organized by Greenpeace. Coal mining poses a serious threat to tigers in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur region, near the …
At a time when several new power projects in the country are facing resistance from people, residents of Sakri town in Dhule district of Northern Maharashtra are fighting to retain a 125-MW solar power project. The State Forest Department has recently issued a notice to the project promoter – Maharashtra …
The 125-MW Shivajinagar Sakri solar plant, one of the largest solar projects in the country, under construction at Dhule in northern Maharashtra, is in jeopardy. The Forest Department of Maharashtra has now put a claim on that land. The Rs 1,987-crore project is being implemented by Maharashtra State Power Generation …
Harvest time has come and gone but the residents of Sitarampeth village in Chandrapur district did not get a penny in return for protecting nearly 300 ha of reserve forest for over a decade. “No valuation has ever been done of the work done by us,” says Rambhau Dhande, a …
The environment ministry has told a Group of Ministers (GoM) that the coal ministry’s argument of a possible production shortfall of 39 million tonne is untenable as it has lifted the moratorium from five out of seven coalfields. In a presentation prepared for the GoM — set up to suggest …
The state government plans to rope in more than 4,000 anganwadi workers across Maharashtra to play the role of whistleblowers against families and doctors misusing sonography machines to identify and abort female foetuses. The shameful drop in girl child ratio to 880 per 1,000 males has propelled the state to …
Maharashtra Minister launches “Save the Girl Child” campaign to curb sex-selective abortions In a packed cultural hall in Chandrapur, poor acoustics did not take away from a serious play on female foeticide. The voices of the actors went high and low as mikes were pushed hastily towards them. At the …
Union environment minister, Jayanthi Natarajan, at a recent meeting told the Group of Ministers (GoM) that the system of ‘go’ and ‘no-go’ has not been mandated by the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 (FCA) and does not have any legal standing. This is a significant departure from the stand advocated by …
After giving sanctions to 57 private power projects in Vidarbha region, the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has now dashed off a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi requesting her to stay 27 of the projects. MPCC chief Manikrao Thakre
In April this year, Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra made history. One of its villages became the country’s first to win the right to sell and harvest bamboo. Down To Earth reports how India's largest paper manufacturing company Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT) is using most of the bamboo in Maharashtra, leaving …
In April this year, Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra made history. One of its villages became the country’s first to win the right to sell and harvest bamboo. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh handed over transit pass books to residents of Mendha Lekha village, allowing them to exercise community forest rights over …
