Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Goa Foundation Vs Union of India dated 28/09/2020. The issue for consideration is the remedial steps for protection of ecology of Western Ghats, which is an eco-sensitive area. The NGT observed that there was demand for more and more exclusion …
Goa Minister for Forests Alina Saldanha has criticised the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), accusing it of trying to force the recommendations of the K. Kasturirangan Committee report on the Western Ghats on the State. In her letter dated December 6, the Minister reiterated the State government’s stand …
PANJIM: The Goa government, has criticized the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), alleging that it is trying to force the recommendations of the K Kasturirangan-led working group on the Western Ghats, on it. The government argued that the report did not reflect the ground realities. Forest Minister Alina …
PANAJI: The Goa government has lambasted the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) for trying to impose the findings of the K Kasturirangan-led working group on the Western Ghats on the state administration. In a letter addressed to Union minister for environment and forests Jayanthi Natarajan, state forest minister …
The Goa government has stated that the K Kasturirangan panel findings on the Western Ghats cannot be accepted, as recommendations are unilateral. Forest minister Alina Saldanha has written to the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), stating that the directions issued by the ministry after accepting the panel report …
Experts Say Kasturirangan Report Does Not Ban Construction, Cultivation, Tourism And Infrastructure Development In Villages In ESA Viju B Chief minister Oommen Chandy may have succumbed to political pressure from UDF allies, quarry owners and church authorities, who want a drastic reduction in the number of villages categorized as Ecological …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that the State government is confident of solving the concerns of the people of the State about the K. Kasturirangan committee report by convincing the Centre about the need for changing some of its “adverse” recommendations. Inaugurating a seminar to evaluate the report, organised …
People of Chakkittapara say they have lived as one with nature, seek people’s report “If they touch us, it will be another Jallianwala Bagh here,” Chakkittapara grama panchayat president K. Sunil shouts over the anxious din of a grama sabha held at Muthukad Lower Primary School on the slopes of …
Though conservationists welcomed the directions issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) prohibiting mining and all Red category Industries within 4,089 villages in the Western Ghats across six South Western States, they have urged the government to prohibit any new large scale alteration or obstruction to natural flow …
Mumbai: The National Green Tribunal has directed the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to take into consideration recommendations of the Madhav Gadgil committee and those mentioned in the Kasturirangan panel report while granting a clearance in the ecologically sensitive zones (ESZ) of the Western Ghats. Senior counsel Raj Panjwani …
Green tribunal says MoEFs can consider either of the reports The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday said that it was no longer mandatory for the Environment Ministry to refer to Gadgil panel’s report while deciding applications for clearance for projects in permissible areas of the Western Ghats. A bench …
No government could implement projects such as the proposed airport at Aranmula disregarding public sentiments against it, especially in aspects of nature conservation, food security and socio-human capital stocks, Madhav Gadgil, ecologist and chairman of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP), has said. Prof. Gadgil, who was in the …
The Nilgiri Documentation Centre (NDC), an Ooty-based NGO involved in ecology and environmental issues, has demanded that the entire Nilgiris district be declared an ecologically sensitive area (ESA) as defined in the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) report prepared by Madhav Gadgil. Human activity, especially construction, will be strictly …
The report of the Western Ghats ecology expert panel (WGEEP) is not against development but it supports sustainable development with protection of ecosystem and nature, said Madhav Gadgil in Kochi on Tuesday. Delivering the keynote address at a function organised by Indian association of lawyers, WGEEP chairman Gadgil said that …
A three-member expert committee will study the Kasturirangan Committee report on Western Ghats to help the state form an official view on the matter. The committee comprising Oommen V Oommen, chairman of state biodiversity board, V N Rajashekaran Pillai, executive vice-president, Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment, and …
The Union ministry of environment and forests' (MoEF) decision in accepting 'in principle' the Kasturirangan report with a new definition of Western Ghats and delineation of its ecologically sensitive area (ESA) has irked environmentalists, as they fear it will open up fragile areas for development and destruction. Environmentalists noted that …
The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) in principle acceptance of the Kasturirangan report on Western Ghats, defining the extent of the ghats and the ecologically sensitive area (ESA) subject to certain conditions, has drawn flak from reputed ecologist Madhav Gadgil. "Kasturirangan has ended up essentially protecting reserve forests, …
Western ghats ecology experts panel (WGEEP) had adopted a broader basis to determine ecologically-sensitive areas, as recommended by the Sen Committee in 2000, but the narrow focus of the high-level working group (HLWG) headed by Kasturirangan on forested areas under government control is totally inadequate and inappropriate, Madhav Gadgil said. …
The report of the Species Survival Commission's Biodiversity Unit (SSC) on 'The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in the Western Ghats, India' has revealed that close to 16% of the 1,146 freshwater taxa-aquatic plants and fish native to the western ghat states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and …
The principal bench of the national green tribunal, New Delhi, has directed the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to clarify its position on the acceptance of the two reports submitted by Gadgil and Kasturirangan on the Western Ghats. The bench, in an order dated August 30, 2013, had …
Western Ghats must be considered as ecologically sensitive to ensure sustainability of the rivers of the Indian Peninsula says this Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel report submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Forests. See Also Report: Problems of hilly habitations... News: Green tag sought for Western Ghats. Report: The …
