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 …
On Tuesday, a cub was found dead near Adhyalmendha lake near Jankapur village in Nagbhid tahsil. On Thursday, the half-burnt carcass of its sibling was found in a thicket. By Saturday, another cub was dead. The last was found by the forest staffers in a had shape. It died even …
In this forested district in Vidarbha, tribals and their needs are neglected by political parties Rahi Gaikwad Chandrapur `Ministers only speak of issues like building a road or doing small favours; the larger issues have never been addressed , Chandrapur
Soil resource characterization of Dhamni micro-watershed in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra was carried out using IRS-1D LISS-III data in conjunction with field survey and ancillary data. The study indicates that nearly 84.2 per cent of the total geographical area of the watershed is under cultivation. Forest (mainly degraded) occupy only …
Mumbai: The Adani Mining Private Limited's isn't the only company awaiting clearance to mine coal in the dense forest cover around the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR). Five companies have been allotted coal blocks in the area. Environmentalists say, this will be the death-knell for the tiger reserve. The major …
Mumbai: State forest minister Babanrao Pachpute is drawing flak from environmentalists again. Earlier, he was criticised for threatening non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for opposing a proposed coal mining project in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur district, east Maharashtra. Now, environmental activists are seeing red after he set up a …
This paper examines different sources of dust generation and quantifies dust emission rates from different point, area and line sources considering background dust concentration at one of the Opencast Coal Project (OCP) of Western Coalfields Limited. Air quality modeling using Fugitive Dust Model (FDM) reveals that dust generated due to …
Maharashtra coal mining EIA dumps people, wildlife COAL mining is set to replace 3,350 hectares (ha), and perhaps more, of reserve forests in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra. This will affect people who are dependent on such forests for everyday needs like firewood. The Centre has given mining leases to three companies, …
A LEOPARD fell into a forest department trap early on Tuesday morning at Chandrapur district's Sarandi village, close to Vejgaon village where leopard attacks have been frequent. Officials, however, are not sure if it was the same problem animal against which shoot orders had been issued. Principal Chief Conservator of …
The industrial development and growing population in India is in demand of more energy. Coal based thermal power generation is a major source of energy and is expanding at a very high rate leading to over exploitation of coal reserves, which is causing adverse impacts on the environment. Remote sensing …
little did farmers in Maharashtra know, or ever expect, that the thousands of rupees they invested in their soybean crop would be lost to countless colonies of caterpillars. The losses have shaken the region
Chandrapur (Maharashtra), September 18 The primary health centre (PHC) at Chandankheda, a village in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra, stands out, having got a fresh coat of green paint. From a dank, cobweb-ridden structure with leaky roofs to being the most favoured healthcare destination in these parts
Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Vidarbha's star tourist attraction, is buzzing with activity. Inside the 625.40 sq km reserve, excavators are hard at work, digging up earth for an ambitious road-building project. Strips of forest, several metres wide, have been cleared alongside existing roads. Outside, along the fringes of the reserve, …
At least 31 people have been killed by tigers from Tadoba since April 2005, according to forest department records. But only two of these killings took place inside the reserve. The rest occurred in the thickly forested Mul, Shioni, Talodhi, Nagbhid and Brahmapuri forest ranges adjoining the reserve's eastern border, …
About 1,000 miners have been withdrawn from an underground mine of Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) in Maharashtra after a carbon monoxide leak. WCL shut down two pits of Ballarpur collieries after traces of carbon monoxide were noticed spreading steadily through the tunnels on Tuesday. The gas leak was first noticed …
The establishment wants to enshrine Baba Amte so that it can ignore his message, says ANIL SADGOPAL IT WAS in January 1998 that more than 25,000 peasants, fishermen and boatmen carried out a satyagraha under the banner of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) at the Maheshwar dam site, a hydel …
Travelling through Maharashtra on assignment, I heard hair-raising stories about a killer tigress in Talodhi village, barely 150 km from Nagpur. I couldn't resist the temptation of taking time off from documenting natural resources management practices and making a detour to track the tigress. Talodhi is located near the Tadoba …
Devrao Atram, a Kolam tribal from Maharashtra, got his land back two years ago. He had given 5 hectare (ha) on contract to a non-tribal banjara family 25 years ago. When he wanted to claim his land back five years from then, he was beaten up and driven out of …
The tribals of Jiwati tehsil in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra, are gradually learning how to fight the encroachers. The area, one of the most backward in the country, had seen large-scale land grabbing by non-tribals after the 1965 drought. The non-tribals (mostly from the Banjara community) from Nanded, Latur and Parbhani …
