Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
India will join 100 nations in ratifying the Paris agreement on climate change on April 22, Union Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar said at the University of Mumbai, according to a press statement. The United Nations agreement, negotiated in Paris in December 2015, sets out a global …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ajay Kumar Negi & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 04/04/2016 regarding Tidong-I Hydro Electric Project in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh. The Tribunal permits the Project Proponent (M/s Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd) to carry out the construction work of the …
Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests, present this Two Hundred and Seventy-seventh Report on "The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2015". The Bill seeks to provide for the establishment of funds under the public accounts of India and the public accounts of each State and crediting …
To expedite clearances for State PSU projects Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi that special provisions made for Central PSUs in the matter of raising compensatory afforestation be also made applicable to State PSUs in order to expedite compensatory forest clearances for such development …
Move comes after miners had demanded that they be allowed to start operations early in blocks under their possession The Union environment ministry has allowed mining to be started in the non-forest parts of forested coal blocks. According to a recent guideline, the forest conservation division of the ministry have …
KOCHI:The Rajya Sabha Committee on Science, Technology, Environment and Forests will hold talks with NGOs, civic organisations and experts at the Government Guest House here on Sunday. “Members of the committee headed by Aswini Kumar MP are already in the city to seek suggestions and opinions of organisations and experts …
Stressing on creating a balance between development and environment conservation, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar today said the government is working towards creating an urban forest in each city in the next 10 years. "We have started working on urban afforestation...it is envisaged that in the next 10 years there should …
There will be no respite from traffic jams on Rao Tula Ram Road stretch in south Delhi, at least till 2017.Construction of a parallel flyover to ease congestion has hit another roadblock, leaving little scope for the project to be completed by its deadline of November 2016. This time, the …
KOLKATA: Encouraged over the success of replanting tall trees, The West Bengal Waste Land Development Corporation (WBWLDC) will develop a 'tall tree nursery' over 5 acre of land at Rajarhat New Town where large trees that will be brought after uprooting from somewhere else will be kept with proper supervision …
GHAZIABAD: The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) is set to resume work on its ambitious cycle track project, after a stay imposed on it by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) was lifted, earlier this month. The principal bench of the tribunal, headed by chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar, disposed of a petition …
Environment ministry clears 229 projects in a month, up from 217 in a quarter. Wary of the perception that his ministry is clearing too many projects too fast, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has asked ministry officials to replace the word ‘diversion’ of forest land with ‘reforestation’ in all communications. An …
GURGAON: Another 330 trees will be cut to make space for the upcoming Hero Honda Chowk flyover. Earlier, 52 trees had been cut for the same project. A senior forest department official said the range officer had already carried out the inspection of the trees that are to be cut …
BENGALURU: Yet again, infrastructure work is taking a toll on the city's shrinking green cover. Close to 90 trees on Platform Road, west Bengaluru, are set to face the axe, with 15 already felled since Sunday. BBMP has started chopping trees near Okalipuram junction to make way for the 8-lane …
A Bill to provide for the establishment of funds under the public accounts of India and the public accounts of each State and crediting thereto the monies received from the user agencies towards compensatory afforestation, additional compensatory afforestation, penal compensatory afforestation, net present value and all other amounts recovered from …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on forest land cleared for developmental projects, 07/05/2015.The Central Government between 2004 and 2013 has accorded approval for diversion of 3,43,909 ha in 13,891 cases under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 for various categories of projects including industrial and development projects.
In a move which may give a major boost to the country's efforts to increase its green cover under a law, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its approval for introducing a new legislation in current session of the Parliament. The proposed law -Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2015 -seeks to …
A day after TOI reported that the Rao Tula Ram flyover project has been held up due to lack of forest clearance for tree cutting, environment minister Asim Ahmed Khan held a meeting with the forest department and has asked it to report on the status of the case. “I …
In a bid to boost afforestation activities, the Centre is mulling to hand over 90 per cent of the Rs 36,000-crore Compensatory Afforestation Management Fund directly to all the states, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said. The fund was created from the penalties collected from corporates for not meeting the mandatory …
To meet drinking water requirement of Delhi The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has finally given clearance for the diversion of 909 hectare forestland which was the biggest hurdle in the way of the 40-mw Renuka Hydro-Power Project in Sirmaur. With this, the project will meet the drinking …
