The NGT sought response from a joint committee regarding complaint of violation of environmental norms in the matter of morrum mining in the river bed of Betwa river, tehsil Sarila, district Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh. The joint committee will comprise the District Magistrate, Hamirpur and Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board. It …
DMs Directed To Ensure Ban In Their Areas The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought responses from the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh and Haryana governments on a plea alleging that illegal sand mining is still going on in some districts of the two states. A bench, headed by NGT …
Illegal sand mining is a lucrative business in Uttar Pradesh with all the major rivers in the State mined by the mining mafia with strong political links. The illegal sand mining is rampant in the flood plains of the Ganga, Yamuna, Ghagra, Ken, Betwa, Chambal and the Gomti. The business …
LUCKNOW: The numbers of the Gangetic dolphins in Uttar Pradesh have registered an increase, reveals the latest dolphin census report. The dolphin numbers have risen from 600, counted in 2005, to 671. The three-day and the first biggest single census of the Gangetic river dolphins was held by the state …
LUCKNOW: The Gangetic river dolphin census and awareness campaign was flagged off by transport minister Raja Mahendra Aridaman Singh on Friday. The state forest department, WWF-India and at least 14 NGOs will jointly do the count and also create awareness among the frontline forest staff and local communities along the …
The 'tiger of the Ganga' is the nomenclature for the Ganga river dolphin which enjoys the same status in the river ecosystem as that of a tiger in a forest. Like the tiger, the dolphin is close to extinction with its numbers having plunged from 6,000 in 1982 to less …
With questions being raised about the feasibility and environment impact of the inter-linking of rivers project, the Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to have a relook at its February 27 decision this year that set the ball rolling by forming a special committee to implement the project. On separate review …
Lucknow Maya govt abandoned attempt after pilot project Apprehensive that the now-infamous first-come, first-served policy for allocation of natural resources comes with risks, states are now wiser and embracing the safer option of auctions for these allocations. The newly-elected Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh has introduced an e-tendering system …
Indore, the state's commercial capital, once dependent on the Bilawali and Limbodi water tanks, as well as from the Yashwant Sagar dam is now heavily dependent on the Narmada River (70 km away) for its ware supply. Any break in the pipeline or interruption in power supply deprives Indore of …
Perennial Jamni river will be linked to nearby lakes to assist in irrigation The Madhya Pradesh government claims to have launched the country's first ever river-lake linking project in the water-scarce Bundelkhand region. The Harpura irrigation and river-lake link project, launched in the Tikamgarh district, will be implemented under the …
After Ken-Betwa,the proposed Parbati-Kalisindh-Chambal river linking project is the second to run into rough weather with MP withdrawing its assent, writes Vivek Trivedi After the Ken-Betwa river link project which ran into rough weather, now the second such project, the proposed Parbati-Kalisindh-Chambal River linking project has plunged into trouble. The …
Union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh recently took the stand that the Ken-Betwa river linking project should be abandoned as it could spell disaster from the ecological point of view but the Madhya Pradesh minister for agriculture Ramkrishna Kusmaria thinks otherwise. According to him, the project would improve …
Chief Secretary Avni Vaish held detailed review of the works of Narmada Water Supply Project today at the Mantralaya. Vaish directed to complete the project works within the time limit. He discussed the progress of the works with senior officers of the Public Health Engineering Department, Bhopal Municipal Corporation and …
Yoginder K Alagh There has always been a question mark against the Tehri dam project. It was planned with Soviet assistance and they had a yen for huge electric projects since the days Vladimir Lenin produced the Gelro electrification plan. If mountains came in the way, they would be blasted. …
Specialist of ecology of rivers Michael Barber has said that the rivers could not be kept healthy if we ignore the chief reasons behind the pollution in rivers. He further added that the pollution should be seen in the context of the entire basin of the rivers, without considering it …
Yoginder K. Alagh Now that the election is almost over, I must admit I am a bit of a fanatic. Not a big one, but a small one. I follow the tyranny of reason. But reason is bound by the prevalent state of knowledge. The lady of the house is …
After being caught in bureaucratic red tape and disputes between States for nearly 30 years, the ambitious River Inter-Linking Project may soon become a reality with a link between Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh ready for launch in the next three years. In the next three years, the Ken-Betwa river …
The programme of Interlinking of Rivers (ILR) in India has been one of the most ambitious ideas ever, of any government till date. It is an idea that has conjured up visions for the common Indian
