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 …
Out of the total 39 tiger reserves in the country, 13 are in Vidarbha alone. After the recent increase in the number of tigers across the country (From 1,411 to 1,706), the central government has decided to promote Nagpur as the tiger capital or
Driptech has launched retail sales of their low-cost drip irrigation systems in India. Driptech is an award- winning US-based company that designs and manufactures low-cost, high quality drip irrigation systems for small farmers in Karnataka, Jharkhand, and Tamil Nadu. Retail sales The company is launching retail sales of their low-cost …
TEMPERS rose as farmers and other affected persons threw chairs at officials during the August 27 public hearing of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)’s 1,300 MW expansion project at Mouda, near Nagpur. Environmental action groups and politicians across party lines joined in to decry the manner in which the public …
When Kanpur businessman Vivek Chaturvedi took up farming as a full-time occupation in 2004, he had no way of knowing that he would usher in a revolutionary farm machine six years later. Chaturvedi's innovation, an ox-driven pump, can pull up 25,000 litres of water in just an hour from depths …
The fossil diatoms and geochemistry of the lake water and sediments of Ambazari Lake, Nagpur were studied. The diatoms assemblages with the characteristics of different salinity regimes and pH have been identified and grouped from the bottom (unit I) to the top (unit III) of the core. Units I
State cabinet ministers from both the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are at loggerheads with Union minister for environment Jairam Ramesh for withholding clearance to several projects in the Konkan region, Vidarbha and Navi Mumbai. They are going to take up their complaint against Ramesh with the prime …
Vidarbha is green again, the rains have finally come, and at least at this point of time, seem to have come to stay their entire term, unlike the previous years when the it simply disappeared after giving us a false hopes of a normal monsoon. Here the article takes a …
The Maharashtra government has finally cleared the rehabilitation package for the people to be displaced by the controversial MIHAN SEZ Near Nagpur city. The decision has made some concessions to the project affected persons who were demanding 12.5 per cent developed land in lieu of land acquired from them for …
After dithering for a year, the Maharashtra government notified the buffer zone around the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur district on May 5. The mining lobby was reportedly putting pressure on the state government to withhold the notification. The buffer around the Tadoba Andhari reserve comprises 1,101.7 sq km …
The Maharashtra government has ordered the National Thermal Power Corporation (ntpc) to cease work on its 1,000 MW power project at Mouda in Nagpur district. The ntpc had ignored several notices from the state asking it to frame a comprehensive rehabilitation scheme and get it cleared by the Maharashtra State …
A comprehensive water sector audit done by the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) in 2005 resulted in recommendations for improvement at two levels: water distribution and water supply energy efficiency to increase the efficiency of the treatment plants. This audit was the basis for a water sector energy efficiency master plan …
Nagpur: This could just turn out to be a master stroke to ease if not solve man-animal conflict. In a novel experiment, the Nagpur forest division officials used urine of captive tigers in the city
Maharashtra’s target is to generate 33,000 MW from 47 new thermal power plants. This is a measure for its power-starved western part; some of it would go to the Nor-thern Grid. Vidarbha, in eastern Maha-rashtra, is power surplus; the region produces 67 per cent of the total power in the …
NAGPUR: The district administration has geared up to tackle the drinking water crisis ahead of summer and will be spending Rs8.18 crores on it, official sources said today. A meeting chaired by district collector Praveen Darade today reviewed the situation in 916 villages falling in the district. Phasewise necessary steps …
THE Maharashtra government has gone back on its promise to give developed land to farmers who cede land for infrastructure and industrial projects. In December¤ the state amended the law that provided farmers developed land in lieu of land acquired from them. The Maharashtra Project Affected Persons’ Rehabilitation Act¤ 2009 …
