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 …
Landscape changes were measured in two watersheds of western Himalayas over a period of 17 years using satellite images. Whereas the total forest cover was found to have been altered, there was substantial shift among different elements which could be attributed to the increasing populations that live off these watersheds. …
Drinking water scarcity in the region seems to have created a drought like situation. The matter of fact is that as many as 73 areas including 22 urban cities, 31 villages and 20 other colonies in five districts of Kumaon division are reeling under severe water crisis , while as …
Nainital Zoo officials have approached the higher authorities to procure a pair of Siberian tiger and tigress as the lone Siberian tiger in the zoo has almost completed its average life expectancy age. According to zoo incharge Manoj Shah, there are only two Siberian tigers in India. Other than Nainital …
In 2008, the Ministry of Rural Development issued guidelines on convergence of MNREGA with other development programmes and schemes to enable creation of durable assets and strengthen the livelihood resource base of the rural poor. In the framework for convergence, the role of NREGS is to provide the primary input …
A women's organisation called Maitri has finally decided to take measures to preserve the famous Naini Lake, located in the middle of Nainital in Uttarakhand. The lake, which is ensconced in the centre of the mountains in Nainital, has become highly polluted over the years and is also shrinking. The …
Nainital: It may not be good news for tourists but for Mussoorie it could literally mean a breath of fresh air. The Uttarakhand government has decided to introduce eco tax upon entry into the Queen of Hills with immediate effect, which is a first in the history of Mussoorie. It …
Sandeep Joshi NEW DELHI: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank met Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal here on Monday and urged him to give necessary clearances and provide financial help for two vital water projects
As part of the series that turns the spotlight on our decaying hill resorts, TOI takes a look at Nainital Lakes in the hills have a mesmerising serenity of their own. Which is why Nainital, at 1938 m above sea level, remains a favourite summer vacation spot. But following in …
Construction of a new housing project adjacent to the Khurpa tal by the Army Welfare Housing Organization (AWHO) has caused afresh hue and cry among the villagers in the surrounding area when Dr. Ajay S. Rawat, Professor of History in Kumaon University filed a PIL against the illegal boring of …
Dehradun: The Nainital High Court has, in a landmark decision, directed that Irrigation Department properties worth more than Rs 1,000 crore in Uttarakhand, under the control of the UP Government, be handed over to Uttarakhand. Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has welcomed the decision of the bench comprising Justices B …
Construction of a new housing project adjacent to the Khurpa tal by the Army Welfare Housing Organization (AWHO) has caused afresh hue and cry among the villagers in the surrounding area when Dr. Ajay S. Rawat, Professor of History in Kumaon University filed a PIL against the illegal boring of …
The Supreme Court has asked an environmentalist to approach the Uttarakhand High Court to stop large-scale illegal constructions and felling of trees in Nainital to preserve the beauty of the town and the main lake by strictly implementing an earlier order of the apex court. In an order passed earlier …
A study conducted in 45 villages in the central Himalayas assesses the current status of van panchayats, an old institution of decentralised forest governance. It finds that locals are indifferent to the administrative jurisdiction of the forest in the course of their resource extraction activities. There is no quantitative evidence …
NAINITAL town's Naini lake is shrinking and its water becoming increasingly murky. The quality of water in the lake, which is the sole source of drinking water for the people of the town, has deteriorated alarmingly. The discharge of sewage into the lake and inappropriate construction activity in the lake's …
If soil quarrying is a threat in the terai, mining poses huge hazards in the hills of Kumaon. Soapstone or talc and magnesite quarries have been taking over commons for over two decades, depriving local people of large tracts of the forestland, pasture, watersheds and farming land. Eastern Bageshwar is …
The state's industrialisation drive has been detrimental for agricultural growth on the whole. But it has not always harmed farmers. In some cases, land has been acquired below the market price, in others, market-driven transactions have been embraced by farmers, presumably because they have benefited, if only in the short …
Water samples from Gaula river and water accumulated in the tension cracks of the nearby hill side which are prone to slide due to complex geotechnical problems and later converge in the river near Amiya village, Nainital district, Uttaranchal, have been analysed geochemically, in order to understand the quality of …
For Khyali Datt Dourbi of village Laldhang near Ramnagar in Nainital district, Kotdwar seems to have become twice as far as it used to be. The journey was 90 kilometres (km) long till 2001 when he could take the Kandi road through the Corbett Tiger Reserve (ctr); now it has …
the Nainital High Court has rescued hapless residents of Kataldi village in Tehri Garhwal, Uttaranchal. It has stayed mining activity there (see: Deep impact, February 28, 2002). The two-judge bench, in an order passed on December 20, 2002, observed that mining was "derogatory according to rules' and should come to …
