Committee Report in OA No.46/2018 (WZ) (Joint Forest Management Committee V/s The Principal Secretary, Revenue & Forest Deptt. & Ors.) There is environmental destruction caused due to dumping of debris of the rocks cut for establishment of statue of Jain Tirthankara, Rishabhanatha. The statue has been carved out of the …
NASHIK: The groundwater level in Nashik division has improved marginally as compared with the five-year average. Experts said that good rainfall in the last monsoon season, recent hailstorms and release of water from dams in Nashik district had resulted in the rise. The pre-monsoon survey carried out by Groundwater Surveillance …
NASHIK: City-based environmental group, 'AplaParyavaran - NashikSamuh', has threatened to organize a human chain agitation if the administration fails to stall the idea of constructing new bathing ghats along the Godavari river for the Kumbhmela. The group has also urged city MP Hemant Godse and district guardian minister Chhagan Bhujbal …
NASHIK: The civic body has invited tenders from private organisations for planting trees in lieu of the 2,000 to be hacked for widening of roads throughout the city limits. Environment activists are, however, sceptical about the maintenance of these plants and insist on following the rules related to any tree …
The number of people suffering from sickle cell anaemia has risen from 19 in 2012-13 to 32 in 2013-14, even as ten carriers of the disorder were found in Nashik city, the district health office has reported. Zilla Parishad chief executive officer Sukhdeo Bankar has called for a screening of …
NASHIK: Even as the district administration claimed to have achieved 81% of its tree plantation target for the fiscal 2013-14, it doesn't have any information about how many saplings managed to survive. The administration had the target of planting 80 lakh saplings in the previous financial year under the 100-crore …
Volunteers of the Manav Utthan Manch (MuM) on Tuesday staged a 'satyagraha' in front of Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan, the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) headquarters, from 11am to 1pm, demanding a first information report (FIR) on illegal felling of trees which took place last month. Around 200 trees were hacked for …
NASHIK: Environment activists and central public works department (CPWD) officials will conduct a joint inspection on Thursday of the trees planted at Sinnar in lieu of the ones that will face the axe for the widening of Nashik-Pune highway. Altogether 1,856 trees face the threat of the axe from Dwarka …
The municipal commissioner has set up an inquiry committee to conduct a survey of the 65 silver oak trees that have allegedly been hacked illegally on the road from ABB Circle to City Centre Mall. On Monday morning, environmental activists noticed that only six of the 71 silver oak trees …
Rising maintenance cost and alleged lack of support from the state government and the civic body are making it difficult for the state road transport corporation to maintain and utilize buses supplied by the Centre as part of its urban renovation mission. Keeping this in mind, the transport corporation wants …
As many as 3,500 trees would have been felled for various road widening works throughout the city, had it not been for the local environment activists who approached the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Western region, Pune and brought a stay on it. The NGT, on a hearing on May 7, …
The state government has increased the organic farming area in Nashik division from 800 hectares to 1,200 hectares to promote the form of agriculture and discourage use of chemical fertilizers. Two years ago, the area under organic farming, which largely depends on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost …
The CEO of the Zilla Parishad (ZP), Nashik, has called for detailed reports of the high infant mortality rate (IMR) reported in Yeola, guardian minister Chhagan Bhujbal's constituency in the assembly. The IMR has risen sharply from 19.29 per thousand to 23.49 per thousand in barely three years in Yeola, …
NASHIK: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Western Region, Pune, on Wednesday, asked the municipal commissioner, the mayor and the executive engineer of the town planning department to be present for the next hearing on May 28 in connection with the issue of 3,500 trees likely to face the axe for …
The forest department has decided to send a fresh proposal to the state government for the construction of a 25-km cycle track that it had planned in the interiors of Harsul, Peth and surrounding areas. The department is also planning for an alternative route for the track and will be …
In a bid to protect the environment, city activists on Monday filed an application in the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Western zone bench, Pune, against the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), pleading the tribunal's intervention in preventing the of felling of 350 trees for the various road widening works across the …
NASHIK: The Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) and the Lesser Florican (Sypheotides indicus), birds once found in abundance in the region, are feared to be extinct, while seven other avian species have been marked as "highly endangered". These two species are grassland birds and declining grassland habitat could be the …
The high-power committee appointed by the Bombay High Court on March 7 on river pollution conducted a ground survey of the Godavari river from Someshwar to Dasak on Wednesday. Its observations and likely solutions will be discussed on Thursday. The committee was formed during the hearing of public interest litigation …
The proposed common effluent treatment plant (CETP) at the Ambad industrial estate is getting delayed for the past five months as the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) is yet to allot the plot to the industries. The MIDC had identified a two-acre plot in October last year for the purpose, …
Environmental activist Sandip Bhavar has sent a legal notice to Nashik municipal commissioner Sanjay Khandare, accusing that the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC)'s Tree Committee (TC) was "improperly" formed. Bhavar - whose name was among those suggested for the committee - has warned of civil and contempt proceedings if the municipal …
After a year of its constitution and seven meetings thereafter, the Nashik Municipal Corporation's Tree Authority Committee is still plagued with controversies and confusion. In a reply to the right to information (RTI) filed by a tree activist, the mayor has quoted 15 members while the municipal commissioner reiterated that …
