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 …
Report of the Oversight Committee in compliance of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order June 17, 2020 passed in Original Application 475/2019 (Ajay Pandey & Others Vs Union of India & Others). The matter related to remedial action against illegal sand mining on the Yamuna river bed between Etawah and …
Affidavit by Ajay Pandey (applicant) by way of additional evidence to prove the illegal sand mining in the Panchnand area and river Yamuna with its tributaries in the districts Etawah, Auraiya, Jalaun and Kanpur Dehat of Uttar Pradesh and Bhind of Madhya Pradesh. The sand mafia before the rainy season …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ajay Pandey & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 17/06/2020 regarding remedial action against illegal sand mining on the river bed between Etawah and Jalaun District including Auraiya District, Uttar Pradesh. A report was filed by the Uttar …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ajay Pandey & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 26/07/2019 regarding illegal sand mining on the Yamuna river bed between Etawah and Jalaun District including Auraiya District, Uttar Pradesh. A report was sought by the Tribunal on May …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ajay Pandey & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/05/2019 regarding illegal sand mining taking place on the river bed between Etawah and Jalaun District including Auraiya District, Uttar Pradesh. According to the applicants, illegal sand mining is …
With a view to encourage eco-tourism in the vicinity of the Taj Mahal , the Samajwadi Party (SP) Government in Uttar Pradesh has given its nod to develop nearly 200-km long 'Bicycle Highway' from Agra to the lion safari in Etawah. The highway was approved in a cabinet meeting presided …
AGRA: In a one of its kind initiative, a 197km-long "bicycle highway" will be constructed from Taj Mahal's East gate to Etawah lion safari at a cost of Rs 94 crore. Public Works Department has finalized the project and the construction work is likely to start soon. UP views this …
KANPUR: Nearly 3000 students of various government and private schools passed several resolutions to conserve environment at `Parliament of Children' in the `Numaish-Pandal' at the ongoing Mahotsav in Etawah, on Saturday. Noted environmentalist and Raman Magsaysay Award winner- Chandi Prasad Bhatt, who was the chief guest on the occasion and …
Nearly 66 remote villages in Etawah, the hometown of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, will soon be lit using solar power under Janeshwar Mishra Gramya Yojana. New and Renewable Energy Development Authority (NEDA) has decided to provide solar-powered home electricity systems to 10 homes each of people coming from extremely poor …
KANPUR: The spotted pond turtle also known as black pond turtle (geoclemys hamiltonii) seized in the recent past in Mumbai and various other parts of the country, are in demand in local and international pet markets. These aquatic animals, found in Etawah, Auraiya, Kannauj, Mainpuri and neighbouring districts, are smuggled …
The encouraging signs of the first 'bonding period', among the three pairs of Asiatic Lion (Panthera Leo Persica) has made Etawah Lion Safari officials hopeful of further increase in the population in coming days. They are hopeful that second mating session would lead to off springs in July. In fact, …
KANPUR: Though the Supreme Court has given directions to the state government to check illegal mining along riverbeds, large-scale illegal mining of sand is going on from Patharra to the downstream Bhareh, which falls under National Chambal Sanctuary in Etawah district. The mining mafias are extracting sand from the river …
Illegal sand mining is posing biggest threat to last of the wild and breeding ghariyals left. Found in maximum strength in national chambal sanctuary running along three states — UP, MP and Rajasthan, ghariyals are losing out to human interference. Illegal sand mining, fishing and stone quarrying in the sanctuary …
Poachers are robbing the Chambal river, flowing through the National Chambal Sanctuary, of its rich aquatic life right under the nose of the Etawah district administration. In a brazen act, an armed gang of poachers overpowered natives of Bhareah last week and fled with a seven-quintal cache of fish caught …
KANPUR: Illegal sand mining in the riverbeds of the Yamuna and Sindh rivers along the Uttar Pradesh-Madhya Pradesh border in the region is continuing in blatant violation of the Supreme Court's February 2012 ruling. Sand, illegally extracted in Etawah, Jalaun and Fatehpur is being used to fuel construction activities in …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has rejected the Uttar Pradesh government’s proposal to construct a VVIP guest house near Mulayam Singh Yadav’s dream project – lion safari —in Etawah on grounds that the district already has three guest houses under the forest department, it is learnt. The state …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has rejected the Uttar Pradesh government’s proposal to construct a VVIP guest house near Mulayam Singh Yadav’s dream project – lion safari —in Etawah on grounds that the district already has three guest houses under the forest department, it is learnt. The state …
KANPUR: With the onset of winters, the region has started buzzing with the chirping of winged guests, which have started arriving from as far as Siberia and Himalaya. District Forest Officer, Etawah, Manik Chandra Yadav said that the National Chambal Sanctuary and the wetlands besides other smaller water-bodies, have become …
The Untghat area of Tikri forest would be developed into a deer safari. Chief secretary Javed Usmani wrote a letter to the chief forest conservator (wildlife) Rupak Dey and asked to prepare an action plan be sent to the Central government for approval. If the proposal is approved, Gonda would …
The government has reviewed progress of the lion safari project and directed forest department to complete the project in a year's time. While the department has to complete the lion breeding centre this year, the safari project should be complete in 2014-15. The breeding centre is to be constructed in …
