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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Brij Mohan Yadav. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 20/07/2015 regarding illegal mechanical mining going on right in the heart of the river Ken at Raipur Village, District Banda, Uttar Pradesh.
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the much awaited Ken-Betwa river link which will benefit Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in terms of meeting irrigation, drinking water and electricity needs of people across six districts in the two states. The Cabinet earmarked over Rs 9,000 crore for the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Bardani Mishra Vs. State of Madhya Pradesh & Nine Ors dated 01/04/2014 regarding illegal mining in Panna, Chhattarpur and Banda. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/31-2014(CZ)(OA)_1Apr2014.pdf
The National Green Tribunal has expressed displeasure over the absence of a representative of the Ministry of Environment and Forest in a sand mining case, saying even in the New Year it “persists” in its “practice” of being unrepresented. “Nobody is present on behalf of respondent 1 (MoEF). It had …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Brij Mohan Yadav. Vs. Union of India & Others dated 22/10/2013. NGT orders that no illegal mining is to be permitted in District Banda, Uttar Pradesh particularly in rivers Badain and Ken. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/864-2013(MApp)_22Oct2013.pdf
Uttar Pradesh has fared badly in utilising the financial assistance received under the Bundelkhand Package managing to spend only 43.89 per cent of the money allocated to it as Additional Central Assistance (ACA) by the Planning Commission. Of the Rs 1,695.76 crore allocated to it as ACA for seven districts …
Illegal sand mining is a lucrative business in Uttar Pradesh with all the major rivers in the State mined by the mining mafia with strong political links. The illegal sand mining is rampant in the flood plains of the Ganga, Yamuna, Ghagra, Ken, Betwa, Chambal and the Gomti. The business …
ALLAHABAD: In a novel approach aimed at recharging depleting ground water status in the arid land of Bundelkhand, the Banda district administration has been interacting and seeking suggestions from masses with the help of social working site Facebook. The objective is to create awareness about recharging ground water through traditional …
Minister for water resources Pawan Kumar Bansal is reported to have been horrified to have learnt of the macabre incident in which a mother, Qadeeran, and her youngest son, Rasheed, were killed by her two elder sons, Nafees and Anees, over a water dispute in Banda district of Bundelkhand. Plunging …
BANDA/CHITRAKOOT: Sunita's hands tremble as she picks up a heavy hammer to break a stone boulder in Narhari village, about 40 km from main Banda city. It has been more than three hours since the 18-yearold has been doing what her father Jagat Pal never wanted. "But we do not …
LUCKNOW: Five days after Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi accused Mayawati government in UP of mega-scale corruption in the centrally sponsored schemes, union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has shot off a letter to UP chief minister Mayawati citing a huge scam in the MNREGA scheme in the state. According …
Credit Pushing Poor Farmers Into Vicious Debt Cycle Banda: Rising debt and increasing poverty: that is the story of the average farmer in Uttar Pradesh
Banda: Everything is in short supply here, especially hope. There was a flicker of it, though, when on April 30 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came here with Rahul Gandhi. Maybe the people were expecting a miracle, an end to the misery created by season after season of bad crops and …
Out of the total geographical area of India about 53% suffers from different kinds of land degradation, and Uttar Pradesh accounts for 9.06%. About 4.0 m ha (11.03%) area of the country is suffering from ravine problem. U.P. shares 1.230 m ha (31%) ravine land of the country spread over …
Lucknow: The forest department has come up with plantation targets for the year 2010-11. The department will plant saplings covering over an area of 55,000 hectares in the coming year. The plantation exercise will begin this month with the advent of monsoon. The total plantation target of planting saplings over …
Technical wing of Irrigation department is planning to enhance capacity of pump canals in several districts which would bring additional 4265 hectare area under irrigation facility. The project for enhancing capacity of canals in Allahabad, Chandauli and Banda districts costing 1266 lakh will be completed in current fiscal 2010-11, state …
In March 2004, a group of Dalit women from Uttar Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region stood on a stage in a plush Delhi auditorium. Th-ey were honoured with the Chameli Devi Award for outstanding media work. The same year, three of their colleagues received fellowships from the Dalit Foundation in Delhi for …
They know little of the Copenhagen slugfest, but a couple in a Uttar Pradesh village decided to do their bit to check climate change. Sangam Singh and Mandvi Singh of Matond village in UP’s Banda district solemnized their marriage with a pledge to spread the message of climate change mitigation. …
At least 32 more people froze to death in last 24 hours in Uttar Pradesh as cold wave continues to sweep Gangetic belt engulfing the plains with dense fog bringing rail, air and road services to a screeching halt, official said on Sunday. Educational institutions have been closed till January …
