Order of the Gauhati High Court in the matter of North East Eco Development Society Vs The State of Assam & Others dated 17/03/2025. In response to the direction given by the HC on December 18, 2024, an affidavit was filed on behalf of the government of Assam, Department of …
The Guwahati East Division of the Water Resources Department (WRD) has proposed diversion of the Guwahati Refinery channel and partial diversion of Bamunimaidam flash flood through the Bondajan Sluice Gate at an estimated cost of Rs 293.67 lakh, including the PWD part and excluding the railway part. Civil administration of …
The term, 'environment', has many connotations. In this paper, by 'environment' we mean the natural environment, which encompasses all the biotic and abiotic elements that form our surroundings, that is, the air, the land, the water, the forests, the seas. In India, more than three-fourths of its population depends directly …
Unabated earth-cutting in the hills in Batahghuli area of Panjabari has laid bare the lack of administrative and political will in checking vandalism on priceless natural resources. The slack enforcement of the district administration
Saurashtra was flooded since rainwater could not drain THE state highway between Viramgam and Surendranagar towns in Gujarat presents a stark contrast. On one side is a carpet of green fields for miles, and on the other, decaying jowar and cotton crops, at places submerged in water. The 60 km …
Speakers at a discussion yesterday stressed the need for setting up an integrated water management project to avert water-related hazards, including waterlogging problem. Disintegrated water management projects have brought economic benefits to one section of the society, while those have caused economic hardships to another section, especially poor people due …
This year during monsoon, all the North Indian states, except Himachal Pradesh, have already received above-normal rainfall, and the monsoon is still continuing. Due to this heavy downpour, a large area (including urban and agricultural) of Punjab has been flooded. It is a well-known fact that floods are created only …
Agronomists say that water logging, salinity, and non-agricultural uses are squeezing Pakistan's precious arable lands and posing serious threat to the agriculture sector and nation's food security. They estimate that everyday approximately 500 acres (1 acre = 4,840 square yards) of farmland is taken out of agriculture by the expansion …
Narail town and its surrounding low lying areas were inundated due to heavy downpour. Working class people are confined to their respective houses as they have no work. The sufferings of the destitute and slum dwellers know no bounds. Though the Aman cultivators are happy for heavy rainfall, the owners …
Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall since Friday continue to claim lives in various mid and farwestern districts of the country. Thousands have been displaced while hundreds are still awaiting rescue in their waterlogged villages. In Kanchanpur district alone, the death toll has reached 15, with seven more reported …
Due to a lax rescue effort by the authorities, land grabbers are filling up the Rupnagar main canal at Pallabi by constructing road and tin-shed houses across the canal. This unauthorised grabbing of the canal has worried locals as they fear the area would be waterlogged permanently if the canal …
In an effort to bring the drainage and consequent waterlogging issues into media focus, The Daily Star Chittagong bureau organised a roundtable titled "Drainage: A Menace for Chittagong' at its conference room on August 14. Abul Momen, adviser to the editor of The Daily Star in Chittagong, briefed about objectives …
The chief adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to take a comprehensive and integrated plan to remove water logging in different parts of the country including the cities of Dhaka and Chittagong. He also directed them, at a high-level inter-ministerial meeting at his office, to recover, from …
The caretaker government yesterday asked for urgently undertaking the long-neglected Eastern Bypass-cum-Flood Control Embankment construction project to protect the eastern part of the city from floods. A high-level inter-ministerial meeting, presided over by Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed, gave the directive as the government considered a package programme for solving waterlogging …
Excavation of few canals and removal of already identified blockages in the drainage system can save the port city from waterlogging and inundation, said the speakers at a roundtable yesterday. The roundtable titled 'Drainage: A Menace for Chittagong' was organised by The Daily Star Chittagong Bureau Office at its conference …
Tribune News Service New Delhi, August 8 Leader of the house in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Subhash Arya and Standing Committee chairperson Vijender Gupta have said that the MCD has appointed a high power co-ordination committee under the chairmanship of Mayor Arti Mehra to monitor waterlogging on the …
There is no possibility of respite for around 4 lakh people in Jhigatola area in the city from severe waterlogging soon as the authorities are likely to start work for development of a new sewerage system in the area in November. People of the area said they have been facing …
