Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
Compliance report on behalf of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Goa Foundation Vs Union of India & Others dated 14/10/2022. The matter related to taking remedial steps for protection of ecology of Western Ghats and delineate it as an eco-sensitive area. The Ministry vide …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Goa Foundation Vs Union of India dated 28/09/2020. The issue for consideration is the remedial steps for protection of ecology of Western Ghats, which is an eco-sensitive area. The NGT observed that there was demand for more and more exclusion …
Linear infrastructure development is an important driver of forest fragmentation leading to habitat and biodiversity loss as well as disruption of critical ecosystem processes. The tropical forests of India are increasingly impacted by infrastructure development. Little quantitative information is available on the extent of fragmentation due to linear infrastructure on …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Goa Foundation Vs Union of India & Others dated 03/09/2019. This application seeks enforcement of order dated 24.08.2018 whereby the matter of notification of Eco-sensitive Zone in the Western Ghats was directed to to be finalised within six months. MoEF&CC …
Dharmasthala, one of the well known pilgrimage centres on the foothills of the Western Ghats, is now reeling under water crisis. So much so that the temple might not have water even for abhisheka if it does not rain in a fortnight, according to D. Veerendra Heggade, the Pattadhikari of …
MoEF&CC; given one month to hand over details PANJIM: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Union Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC;) to submit the compliance report on the finalisation of Eco-Sensitive Areas (ESA) along the Western Ghat region within one month. NGT Principal Bench chaired by …
PANJIM: The Goa government has urged the Union Ministry for Environment and Forest (MoEF) requesting an almost 50 per cent reduction in the total area identified as Eco-Sensitive Areas (ESA) along the Western Ghats region, under the latter’s draft notification issued in October 2018. The High Level Working Group (HLWG) …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Goa Foundation Vs Union of India dated 07/05/2019 regarding finalization of the notification of eco-sensitive zone in the Western Ghat. Inspite of the NGT order dated 24/08/2018 asking for the matter to be finalized within six months and the undertaking …
The mighty Sharavathi river basin in the Western Ghats is considered a significant refuge for the endangered Lion-Tailed Macaques (LTM) in the country. BENGALURU: The mighty Sharavathi river basin in the Western Ghats is considered a significant refuge for the endangered Lion-Tailed Macaques (LTM) in the country. With a recent …
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada district is staring at a harsh summer and in the city, the Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has started rationing water to ensure that the water needs are met in the next two critical months. None of the prominent political parties or candidates in the fray has even …
Centre presses states to trace Eco-Sensitive Areas in meeting In a bid to gather momentum for a consensus on delineating Eco-Sensitive Areas (ESA) in Western Ghats, the Centre held a meeting with five of the six states that are home to the chain of hills in the Ghats. The Centre …
Environmentalist says plan to interlink rivers in india is quesionable Dinesh Holla, environmentalist and artist, said on Thursday that nobody had the right to change the natural flow of a river. He was delivering the B.N. Shankaranarayana Memorial Lecture on ‘River diversions and river-linking’ at the Dr. T.M.A. Pai College …
‘Western Ghats is dotted by unnecessary dams’ A large number of projects that are planned and implemented in the country are economically, socially, and environmentally unjustifiable ones, said noted ecologist Madhav Gadgil. Mr. Gadgil was speaking at a panel discussion on ‘Environmental Governance: Tough Times Ahead?’ organised by the Centre …
BENGALURU: Three years ago when there was fear that a growing glacial lake behind south Lhonak Glacier in Sikkim could touch off glacial outburst floods, it's the Divecha Centre for Climate Change (DCCC) at IISc that came to the rescue of the government of India. Scientists at the centre held …
Kochi: In a bid to boost agriculture sector, finance minister Thomas Isaac has announced projects worth Rs 2,500 crore in the budget with focus on value-added products from rice, rubber and coconut. He has also announced branding of Wayanad coffee powder under the name ‘Malabar’. He said that this would …
It will be a platform to engage the Government, political parties and the youth in conservation Preparations are nearing completion for the Ecological Festival of Western Ghats, to be held from February 1 in Coimbatore. The three-day national conference aims at building grass root responses for conservation of the Western …
Perennial streams were found in regions that have greater than 70% of forest cover, showing the link between ecology and hydrology with land use A recent study has found that unplanned developmental activities and haphazard land use are reducing evergreen forest cover and perennial streams in the central region of …
Organisers enlighten people on the need for protecting the Ghats A signature campaign organised by the Save Western Ghats Movement, as a prelude to its Ecological Festival of Western Ghats, received good response from the citizens in Coimbatore on Sunday. Around 2,000 people took part in the campaign at Race …
Over 56,000 kilometres of ecologically sensitive areas (ESA) in the Western Ghats could not be earmarked as ‘no-go’ zones due to State governments’ ‘insensitivity’, a parliamentary committee has said. The panel has urged the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to constitute a committee to address the issues and …
The ministry prepared its notification after coming under fire from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for not finalising the ESA in the region. Nearly 57,000 sq km of the Western Ghats should be declared as Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA), the Union environment ministry has said in a new draft notification. …
