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 …
MUMBAI: Water samples collected from over 30 districts of Maharashtra were found to have contaminants, a report by the state's Public Health Laboratory has stated. The Maharashtra Public Health Laboratory has found that water taken from various sources like bore wells, wells, public tanks and water tankers in rural and …
Nagpur: As summer intensifies in Vidarbha, at Mangrulpir, a town of 35,000 in Washim district, even the source to be tapped on emergency basis has dried up. It is one of the most affected pockets in the region. TOI had visited the area, over 250 kms form city, on April …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Asim Sarode & Others Vs District Collector Nanded & Others dated 11/01/2016 regarding environmental concern faced by residents of more than 12 districts in the State of Maharashtra due to contaminated ground water in terms of …
Over 65,000 birds across 26 species and many animals from nine species of mammals were killed in hailstorms that occurred between February and May this year in Marathwada and Vidarbha regions. A Bombay Natural History Society study has reported mass wildlife mortality in 27 areas, which includes high mortality in …
Letter from State Level Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC), Maharashtra to Collector, Washim regarding environmental clearance for stone quarry proposals dated 26th June, 2013.
The government has opened 90 new water testing labs in the state, in addition to the 30 that operate at the district level. Having received over 2,500 cases of an unidentified fever in the past one year from rural areas, the public health department acquired space in state-run rural and …
It is not just about large-scale financial and political irregularities. Maharashtra’s irrigation scam has put a question mark on the validity of the state’s high-cost irrigation policy itself. Under this policy very little irrigated area has been created in the state despite hundreds of dams being constructed and thousands of …
The project will disseminate weather-related inputs to farmers to improve land productivity and boost crop output About 50,000 farmers in ten districts of Maharashtra are expected to benefit from a pilot project, which will disseminate weather-related inputs using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve land productivity and boost crop …
Plant is set to come at Ruchi's Washim unit, will also generate income for the local community Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd (RSIL), India’s largest edible oil player, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Thermax Ltd, a leading company in energy and environment solutions, to set up a one …
Over 10,000 villages and 15 of Maharashtra's 35 districts face a drought-like situation. Malti Palvi, a 27-year-old housewife from Sakhare, a village in Thane district around 80 km from Mumbai, stands in a queue to take water from a nearby well at 6 a.m. Her turn comes only after 2 …
Bibekhed village in Buldana district sparkles brightly against the bleak backdrop of Vidarbha known for its despairing farming community. Till about ten years ago, men here wouldn
Mahesh Joshi For the past eight years, standing crops of the three tehsils of Kannad, Gangapur, Vaijapur and some parts of Phulambri in Aurangabad district lay vulnerable, not only to drought and heavy rains, but also to deer herds.The threat has become particularly severe over the past three years with …
Mumbai: Water woes only increase for the people of Maharashtra. The scenario is so bad that authorities are forced to take help from neighbouring states to fill up tankers which supply drinking water to rural areas. The state administration admits the situation in Marathwada and Vidarbha could get worse if …
P. Sainath Seeking authenticity for his letter to the Prime Minister and the President, Ramachandra Raut composed it with care on Rs.100 non-judicial stamp paper. Then he added a few more addressees, including his village sarpanch and the police, in the hope that it got home someplace. Then he killed …
POLA IS THE HARVEST FESTI-val in Maharashtra. On this day every August, farmers in the agricultural belts of the state bathe their buffaloes, paint their horns and parade them around their villages. As the villagers of Bhadumri (in western Vidarbha) were busy sprucing up their cattle in August 2006, 35-year-old …
A ray of hope is dawning in a few hundred villages of Washim and Akola districts, thanks to a project called the Integrated Sustainable Agricultural Programme (INSAP) being implemented by Yuva-Rural (Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action) with the help of Swiss-Aid India. According to Nitin Maate, a coordinator or …
