Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Serajul Islam & Others Vs The State of West Bengal & Others dated 16/02/2024. The matter related to illegal stone quarrying activities in Mouza Madna, PS Nalhati, District Birbhum. Committee report on affidavit, February 15, 2024 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Serajul Islam & Others Vs The State of West Bengal & Others dated 16/02/2024. The matter related to illegal stone quarrying activities in Mouza Madna, PS Nalhati, District Birbhum. Committee report on affidavit, February 15, 2024 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jadab Chandra Saha & Others Vs West Bengal Pollution Control Board & Others dated 27/01/2020 regarding a rice mill in village of Madanpur, Post Office Mathpalsa, District Birbhum, West Bengal. It is alleged that pollution is caused by the boiler, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Joydeep Mukherjee Vs Chief Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal & Others dated 03/12/2018 regarding pollution of Tarapith area, Birbhum District, West Bengal. NGT directs the State Respondents to submit an affidavit on the issue of unregulated disposal of municipal waste …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Joydeep Mukherjee Vs. Chief Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal & Others dated 01/10/2018 regarding pollution of Tarapith area, Birbhum District, West Bengal. The government counsel submits that substantial work has been done which includes construction of the electric cemeteryas well …
17 of them have high levels of bacteria found mainly in human faeces, it says A dip in the Ganges is, generally speaking, synonymous with the idea of purification. But that shall no longer be so in Bengal, where the river is so polluted that it is now officially unfit …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Subhas Datta Vs Visva Bharati University & Others dated 01/11/2017 regarding the pollution caused during the Poush Mela, 2015 held in the Visva Bharati University in the month of December. National Green Tribunal (Eastern Bench) directs …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Joydeep Mukherjee Vs Chief Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal & Others dated 31/03/2017 regarding pollution of Tarapith area, particularly the Dwarka river, Birbhum District, West Bengal.
The rainfed areas receive mean annual precipitation in range of 500-1500 mm with high degree of variability and are beset with problems of mid-season drought and associated impacts on the crop productivity. In this paper, analysis of weekly, monthly, annual rainfall and weekly rainfall probabilities in relation to crop productivity …
Blaming the Centre for “non- cooperation” even for development projects, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced setting up of a new venture to develop the country’s largest coal mine in the State. Ms. Banerjee said that a special purpose vehicle - Bengal Birbhum Coalfields Ltd. - as been created …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Joydeep Mukherjee Vs Pollution Control Board & Ors dated 28/08/2015 regarding illegal brick fields in West Bengal.
Multivariate statistical techniques, cluster and principal component analysis were applied to the data on groundwater quality of Suri I and II Blocks of Birbhum District, West Bengal, India, to extract principal factors corresponding to the different sources of variation in the hydrochemistry as well as the main controls on the …
The Kolkata bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) headed by Justice Pratap Kumar Ray last week show-caused 70 hotel owners of Tarapith as they were operating without the approval of the state pollution control board. The hotels have been closed and their power connection has been snapped. The hotel owners …
KOLKATA: A report filed by river expert Kalyan Rudra to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) pointed to 'total extinction of biodiversity' in the Chandrabhaga River in Birbhum due to dumping of flyash from the Bakreswar Thermal Power Project (BKTPP). According to him, the water is whitish-grey in colour and physical …
Soil enzyme activities provide unique biochemical assessment of soil function as a good indicator of soil fertility which can be altered due to the profusion of fluoride in soil and seasonal change. Seven sites were chosen in the fluoride affected area of Nasipur, Birbhum district, West Bengal, India, to make …
The West Bengal government has undertaken a Rs 500-crore programme to convert 50,000 hectares of non–arable land into cultivable area in the State’s four drought-prone districts — Bankura, Birbhum, Purulia and West Midnapore. The decision was taken by the Cabinet and an amount of Rs. 500 crore had been cleared …
The violence in Dubrajpur in Bengal’s Birbhum district by villagers protesting against land acquisition by a private coal mining company has a strong resemblance to similar campaigns in Singur and Nandigram. Like in those two places, here too suspected Naxalite activists played a key role and joined hands with a …
Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to junk Bengal’s decade-old industry policy drawn up by the Jyoti Basu government in 1994 and adopt a new one in keeping with changing realities. Interestingly, industries minister Partha Chatterjee is unaware of the move. Mamata has entrusted former Union minister Saugata Roy …
Kolkata Yet another case of land-related unrest is roiling West Bengal, this time around developing a coal mine allotted to Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) in 2004. At least 27 policemen, including three officers, and six villagers were injured in a pitched battle early on Tuesday at Dubrajpur in Birbhum district, …
In fresh trouble for the West Bengal government, thousands of villagers who were protesting against land acquisition by a private coal mining company took on the police in Dubrajpur in Birbhum district, about 200 kilometres from Kolkata, early today. Over 25 policemen were reported to have sustained injuries in what …
NEW DELHI, 29 JULY: The spectre of drought looms large over major parts of northern and western India following a poor monsoon that has already hit sowing of kharif crops and left farmers and livestock in distress. Shortage of drinking water and an adverse impact on the prices of fruits, …
