Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
More than 2,500 trees have been cut down to plug breaches near Dhussi dam and its surrounding areas in Ludhiana. In Kherabet area alone, more than 600 trees were cut from the forestland, though not a single tree grown by the landlords on the riverbed have been touched.
THE Great Indian Desert, Thar, is expanding, swallowing and degrading about 12,000 hectares of productive land every year. An alarmed Rajasthan government recently asked the state pollution control board to suggest how to arrest the land degradation and soil erosion. The board reviewed about 200 research papers on the impact …
Ensures irrigation, enhancement of rain water realisation PUDUKOTTAI: Work on modernisation of the panchayat tank taken up by the M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) at Thalinji village near Iluppur has started paying dividends. The tank, spread over an area of 22 acres, is 300 metres in length and 25 metres in …
KHUMTAI, Aug 25 – Erosion in the northern bank of the river Dhansiri in Khumtai area is posing a grave threat to the farming community. The erosion seems to have started from the Haotoleyghat to Purani Kamargaon on the northern most boundary of the NRL plant. Though the railway authorities …
Aug. 20: Over 500 families of three Malda villages have moved to safer locations after the areas were gobbled up by the rising Fulhar and the Ganga in the past three days. To make matters worse, the Met Office in Jalpaiguri has forecast more rain in the sub-Himalayan Bengal and …
Bhubaneswar: Though not invited to participate at the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) meeting scheduled to be held in New Delhi on August 20, the Odisha government is still expecting an opportunity to explain its stand on Vedanta's controversial Niyamgiri mining project. Though we were hopeful of getting an invitation to …
JORHAT, Aug 18: With continuous erosion in Kaziranga by the Brahmaputra and a bunch of officials of the Water Resources Department engaged in the KNP erosion protection project fruitlessly, the local people have alleged serious misappropriation of government funds. It has been alleged that the officials concerned with the erosion …
Why is the river so notorious? Assam has lost about 170,000 hectares to the Brahmaputra and its major tributaries between 1990 and 2007. These are mostly prime land such as tea gardens and the economic loss is phenomenal. The problem is the Brahmaputra transports heavy sediment load—about 800 million tonnes …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNNAhmedabad: The state may be eyeing major investment in the Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) but the government will have to redesign the project. Reason: A study commissioned by the Centre to Chennai-based Anna University has reported heavy soil erosion in the region. The report prepared by …
JORHAT, Aug 10: Affected by severe erosion, the river island of Majuli is threatened by extinction as every year it loses a large chunk of land to the mighty Brahmaputra in the middle of which it is situated.Data available at the Majuli Circle Office from 1972 reveals how serious the …
GUWAHATI, Aug 5: State Water Resources Department Chief Engineer Tuhin Chakrabarty has told the Gauhati High Court in his affidavit in connection with the PIL filed by Hridaya Nanda Konwar and others that the department could not execute a number of anti-erosion schemes, including the Rohmoria Protection Dyke, due to …
GUWAHATI, Aug 4: State Water Resources Department Chief Engineer Tuhin Chakrabarty informed the Gauhati High Court that due to paucity of funds, no major maintenance work on the Dibrugarh Town Protection Dyke from Maijan to Mohanaghat could be executed since 1977.
The Central Water Commission (CWC) sent its response to the Kosi Bandh Katan Judicial Enquiry Commission, through Letter No 7/2/2/2009-FM.II/427 dated 04.12.2009, authored by C P Singh, Director FM-II, issued "with the approval of Chairman, CWC" as the letter says.
