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 …
The state government has approved construction of a road connecting Isapur in Kolhapur district and Chaukul in Sindhudurg district with diversion and deforestation of reserved forest spread over 4.32 hectares in the ecologically-sensitive areas. Officials said that the road will cut at least 40 kms of the distance between the …
A month back, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) department in Thane had collected 81 samples of milk from Mumbai and Thane division after there were complaints about adulteration. After analysing the samples, it was found that six well-known companies are involved in this act. According to an officer from …
KOLHAPUR: The civic body has cancelled its plan to set up the proposed 180-tonne waste-to-energy plant and is instead planning to start the unit in two phases - first, by setting up a facility to treat 100 tonnes of garbage and in the second start treating the remaining 80 tonnes, …
The forest department is considering to implement strict measures to maintain the wildlife corridor which connects Koyna wildlife sanctuary and Chandoli national park, both part of the Sahyadri tiger reserve (STR). The 7-km corridor will be protected for safe and natural movement of tigers, leopards and other wild animals in …
The action plan prepared by Kolhapur zilla parishad to curb pollution of the Panchganga river has not yet been approved by the environment department of the Maharashtra government. The plan, pending with the state for the past eight months, is likely to be delayed further, since the implementation of the …
Kolhapur district has received only 64% rainfall of its annual average rainfall of 1,772.4mm so far. The district authorities claimed that there is still time on hand and once monsoon is revived, there will not be any shortage of water in the district. Kolhapur is the southernmost district of the …
KOLHAPUR: In its first ever meeting, the district environmental committee appealed to citizens to take precautions against environmental and noise pollution during the Ganesh festival from August 29. The meeting was organised at the collector's office on Monday to discuss the strategies to make the public appeal. The meeting was …
KOLHAPUR: The western zone of National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Pune is going hear the Top quarry case on Tuesday. The case was filed by local residents against the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC), opposing the dumping of the garbage in a quarry located near the Top village, around 11 km …
KOLHAPUR: Environmentalists have expressed concern over the uncontrolled deforestation of private forests in southern Maharashtra. They said the trend of hilltop farming, developing farm houses, roads, installing wind mills and mining is causing deforestation in Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara districts. Experts have also said that razing tree cover in the …
Greens Cry Foul Over Undue Rush To Approve Plans The state forest department has cleared as many as 32 proposals seeking diversion of over 2,000 hectares of forest land for other purposes in the last six months. Almost half these proposals, which had been pending with the department since last …
A Bombay high court division bench of justices Abhay Oka and M S Chandurkar on Friday issued a show-cause notice to the Kolhapur Zilla Sahakari Dudh Utpadak Sangh Ltd, popularly known as Gokul milk dairy , for not having a facility to treat waste water. The directions came after the …
While experts from Kolhapur said that the union government had failed to satisfy the needs of the agriculture and cooperative sectors in its budget announced on Thursday, Member of Parliament Raju Shetty, a farmers' leader in western Maharashtra, said that the union has started taking "appropriate steps" to boost these …
The state archaeological department will prepare a plan to conserve the ancient sculptures and temples found in the receding water of the Panchganga river. On Wednesday, a meeting was held with officials of the department, Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) and local experts, following which the civic body said it would …
A survey report on Monday revealed that as many as 11,000 children in Kolhapur district are malnourished, prompting the minister of state for rural development, Satej Patil, to direct government officials to prepare a plan within eight days to tackle the issue. Officials claimed that the malnourishment figure is steadily …
PUNE: Despite a drop in the number of H1N1 cases, the high mortality rate (from 8% in 2012 to 25% this year so far) has left doctors and experts worried. Of the 21 cases till April this year, five have succumbed to the infection. Of these, Nagpur accounted for four …
KOLHAPUR: The implementation of Supreme Court's ruling banning bullock-cart races poses a big challenge for the police department and administration. Bullock-cart races are one of the most popular traditional sports in rural Maharashtra. Over 1,000 bullock-cart races happen in Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara and Pune districts between August and March every …
The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) headed by justices V R Kingaonkar and Ajay Deshpande on Monday directed the civic body to float fresh tenders for appointing a firm for treating biomedical waste in the city. In the process, the NGT cancelled the temporary assignment given to …
The civic administration on Tuesday assured corporators that the work of diverting the nullahs flowing directly into the Rankala Lake will start next week. The sewage discharge has polluted the water body and led to rampant growth of algae. The assurance was made during a meeting of the Kolhapur Municipal …
Green activists from the city are divided over the cause of the death of fish at a couple of places along the Panchaganga River. Fish were found dead near the Shiroli Bridge and at Bawada Bridge on Friday. Following complaints from local residents and activists on Friday, officials of the …
The civic body has an uphill task in hand - the problem of dumping of piles of garbage with its plan to distribute decomposed waste as fertilizer to farmers free of cost finding no takers. About three lakh tonnes of garbage are piling up at the Kasba Bawada site for …
