Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Raghubir Singh Garia Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 22/04/2025. The matter related to illegal mining of soap stone in village Papon, District Bageshwar, Uttarakhand. The complainant, a resident of the village said that illegal mining of soap stone …
Judgement of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of All India Plastic Industries Association Vs Government of Tripura & Others dated 31/01/2014 regarding banning of plastic bags in Tripura.
Agartala: The World Bank would provide the major share of a Rs.8,150-crore project to create infrastructure in the power sector in six northeastern states, officials said here Tuesday. State-owned Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) would execute the World Bank-aided projects in six of the eight northeastern states of …
Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to strengthen power evacuation system in the Northeastern region on priority basis. Speaking at the Prime Minister convened meeting on Monday in Delhi, he said with the commissioning of Palatana power plant’s first unit, Tripura has a …
This study examines factors that determine the adoption and continued production of Jatropha in plantations in North East India. The study is based on a sample of 144 current-farmers, 137 previous-farmers, and 145 non-growers of Jatropha in the states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. The findings suggest that farmer characteristics …
Assam has completed over 22,000 schemes under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) between April 2010 and November this year. With regard to the total number of NRDWP schemes implemented over the past three and a half years, Assam ranks 11th among 35 States and Union Territories. According to …
The Union Road Transport and Highways (RTH) ministry has approved road construction of 6,418 km under Special Accelerated Road Development Project-North East for implementation of Phase A and the Arunachal Pradesh package of roads and highways. "Of the 10,141 km stretch of road included under the ministry's SARDP-NE, 6418 km …
In a confirmation of what has been suspected for long, the Centre has admitted that there have been delays in completion of the road projects in the North East due to delays in land acquisition, environment and forest clearance. In a Lok Sabha reply, the Minister of State for Road …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Themrei Tuithung & Ors. V/s State of Manipur & Ors. dated 20/11/2013 regarding proposal made by the Government of Manipur for construction of a multipurpose hydroelectric project (Thoubal Multipurpose Hydroelectric). When the second stage of the project has to be …
The projects will collectively augment the storage capacity of FCI by about 1,25,060 metric tonnes (MT), out of which 53,000 MT is likely to be completed by March 2014 Food Corporation of India (FCI) is in the process of augmenting its infrastructure in North-East to implement the National Food Security …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Themrei Tuithung & Ors. Vs. State of Manipur & Ors. dated 12/11/2013 where NGT has directed State Govt of Manipur to halt construction work of Thoubal Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project till Nov 20. NGT also states that as far as the …
A Planning Commission panel recently recommended allocation of 2 per cent of annual gross budgetary support (to the Twelfth Plan) per year to the 11 Himalayan states, including seven in the Northeast. The amount, at current levels would work out to be about Rs 10,000 crore, to be earmarked for …
NEW DELHI, October 30: Being aware of the uncertainty over the 2000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydro Electric Project (LSHEP), Union Power Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha has appealed to the government to set a time limit of 210 days to get forest clearance for any power project in the northeastern States. …
New Delhi, October 29: Against the backdrop of hue and cry over Chinese aggression in Arunachal Pradesh, the Union Home Ministry has said that several strategic projects in the northeast are facing problems for not getting environment clearance. “The Home Ministry was having major problems in getting environment clearances for …
NEW DELHI, October 20: A fact that is likely to generate a wide–scale controversy amongst the environmental activists in the northeastern States, as many as 10,846.6382 hectares of forest land was diverted for non–forest purposes in the region. Such forest land was diverted for building dams, mining and other non–forest …
Assam governor J B Patnaik launched the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute's special health check-up scheme for the people of northeast at Raj Bhawan here on Saturday. The comprehensive preventive health check-up scheme called "Swasthyaban Uttar Poob" is a special plan exclusively for the people of northeast …
Sacred groves have survived very long without human interference, and thus are of anthropological, cultural, economic, and ecological significance. In India, these groves are concentrated in the North-East and along the Western Ghats, both globally recognised hotspots of biodiversity. Unfortunately, their size and number are now shrinking at an alarming …
The Reang tribe in Tripura, which practised shifting cultivation and still does to an extent, faces serious problems with the state government implementing measures to turn them into settled cultivators. This essay points out that government programmes have widened social disparities among the Reangs and brought in alternatives that cannot …
The Cabinet is likely to consider on Tuesday a policy for exploration of shale oil and gas, which will initially allow state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Oil India to tap the unconventional resource in areas they hold. The shale gas policy is listed on the agenda of the …
In a bid to boost infrastructure in North Eastern region, the government on Friday approved three important highway projects in Assam entailing Rs 2,130 crore expenditure under Special Accelerated Road Development Programme (SARDP). "The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its approval for four-laning of Numaligarh to Jorhat, Jorhat …
Only 15 states have so far set up their own respective State Disaster Response Force following direction from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) earlier this year. Only 15 states have so far set up their respective state dedicated forces meant for immediate response to disaster and also involve in …
