Affidavit by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Sisir Kumar Panda Vs Union of India & Others dated 20/05/2025. The issue pertained to the removal of illegal construction/obstruction caused by the state authorities as well as the private persons in the ecological sensitive zone …
gahirmatha beach in the eastern state of Orissa, the world's largest rookery of the endangered Olive Ridley turtle, will soon lose this superlative. The turtles do not find the beach suitable for nesting any more and are changing to other places following continual disturbances due to human activities. This has …
November marks the beginning of the breeding season of the endangered Olive Ridley turtle on the Gahirmatha coast in the eastern state of Orissa. The first school of the protected turtles is expected on the beach by the third week of the month, according to the estimates of the Coast …
GAHIRAMATHA beach in Orissa which is the biggest nesting ground for Olive Ridley sea turtles in the world will be declared as a marine sanctuary. Last year, thousands of Olive Ridleys died while being caught in the gill nets of fishing trawlers when they neared the coast for their annual …
The infamous Indian bureaucracy beat the turtle literally this time. Two scientists who desired to conduct a study on the endangered Olive ridley turtle on the coast of the eastern state of Orissa were left with no option but to suspend their project because the government delayed its approval beyond …
Oxfam (India), a relief and development organisation, has launched a massive relief and sustainable development programme in the drought-hit areas of Orissa. The Rs 1.5 crore programme will be implemented in the worst-affected villages of Bolangir, Kalahandi and Nuapara districts, with the help of local NGOs and community-based organisa- tions. …
OXFAM (India) Trust has successfully completed its drought relief programme by supporting 14 community- based organisations in the three worst-affected districts of western Orissa - Bolangir, Nuapada and Bargarh. "We would just like to give the government a demonstration of the drought mitigation programme with our limited r6ources in terms …
gondwanaland: supercontinent in geological history, of which India was a part. Gondwana ('Forest of the Gonds'): land of the Gond tribals and their powerful empire. A historic region which straddles the four states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. And famed for its traditional water harvesting structures. However, …
While a kata was a relatively big structure, there were several smaller systems like bandhs and mundas built all over western Orissa. A bandh is a four-sided tank excavated below the kata , from which it derives its water by percolation. Normally used for drinking purposes only, bandhs are invariably
"Development of modern, centralised system of irrigation is the main reason. Everywhere in the command area of the Hirakud dam, these structures lie defunct today,' says R S Rao, reader, department of economics, University of Sambalpur. His views are echoed in the villages. "When we get water, though not so …
hirakud, one of the largest and the oldest dams in the country, has developed cracks. Its leaking walls may fall apart any time and sweep away the coastal delta of Puri and Cuttack. The Orissa government, however, is unfazed about the eventuality saying that there is "nothing to be alarmed …
charging ahead: In the race to manufacture user-friendly electric cars, Canada's Vancouver-based Ballard Systems seems to have taken a lead with a silent, non-polluting fuel-celled car. The six-seater car, which can run at a speed of 105 km per hour with more than 240 km between refuelling stops, has been …
current and future us and World Bank (wb) investments in Orissa are facilitating a battery of environmental, public health-related and social crises, according to a recent report by the Washington d c-based Institute for Policy Studies (ips). The wb loans will help transform the eastern Indian state of Orissa into …
the World Bank's (wb) staff appraisal report (sar) of the Orissa Power Sector Restructuring Project (opsrp) of April 19, 1996, seems to have emerged as a bundle of contradictions as far as the Indravati hydropower project is concerned. Orissa is the first state in India to get a wb aid …
A K NANDA, a young scientist from Berhampur in Orissa, has developed a commercially viable process for production of bio-degradable plastic sheets and films using starch. The polythene films developed from starch undergo complete degradation in two months of soil burial, unlike polymer plastics which take upto 100 years to …
THE NGO sector of Orissa has vehemently opposed the bureaucrats of the health and family welfare department of the state after they returned Rs 33 crore out of the Rs 60 crore grant for the 'blindness control programme' of the World Bank. The department said that it could not use …
The Save Coast Movement (SCM) of Orissa scored a major victory in its campaign to protect the habitat of the olive ridley turtles. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), bowing to pressure from the movement's leaders agreed to adopt measures to protect the endangered turtle. The DRDO is setting …
Resentment simmers in 27 villages near Gopalpur-on-Sea, Orissa, where the Tata Iron and Steel Company proposes to set up a steel plant on 290 ha of fertile land. Villagers clarify that they are opposed to the ousting of people from fertile lands supporting cashew) coconut and other fruit trees, and …
It could be the death knell for 20 hotels and a shrimp processing unit in Orissa if they do not take immediate mea- sures to stop polluting the sea by the end of this year.The Orissa Pollution Control Board decided to close down the hotels following a Supreme Court order. …
Drip irrigation may be centuries old NGr but its revival in a novel form deserves mention. The department of horticulture in Orissa has evolved the 'pitcher-method-drip-irrigation' where earthen pitchers filled with water are placed under plants%? which require a constant flow of water. A hole at the bottom of the …
SHRIMP farmers are up in arms against green activists in Orissa. The Orissa Shrimp Farm ers:ssociation has threatened to move the National Human Rights Commission against the "pseudo-environmentalists and eco-terrorists, jeopardising the livelihood of thousands of prawn farmers and villagers dependant on shrimp farming." Meanwhile, the Orissa Krishak Mahasangha, a …
