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. …
Inclusion will affect development of pilgrim centre six-member village-level committee appointed by the State government has excluded the sacred grove (Poonkavanam) of Sabarimala and Pampa from the purview of the Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) in view of its importance as a pilgrim centre. The committee was appointed by the government …
The Government has launched The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity TEEB-India Initiative (TII) to highlight the economic consequences of the loss of biological diversity and the associated decline in ecosystem services. The Initiative focussed on three ecosystems, namely forests, inland wetlands and coastal and marine ecosystems. TII has been implemented …
PUNE: The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) has persistently ignored reports on biodiversity concerns and risk assessment studies along the Mumbai-Pune Expressway prepared by experts such as scientists and ecologists. In 2014, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, had prepared a detailed report on the rockfall risk assessment of …
The field-level verification to demarcate Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA) identified by the Kasturirangan committee for conservation of the Western Ghats is set to begin on Thursday, amid fears that the government decision to earmark only protected forests as ESA would impact the move to recover forestland from encroachers. The panchayat-level …
Going ahead with the government decision to mark ecologically sensitive areas (ESA) with survey numbers in 119 villages across the state, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has directed district collectors to submit a final comprehensive report by July 25. The Chief Minister directed that the existing forest cover should be maintained …
PUNE: "If your village is declared as part of the eco-sensitive area (ESA) then no one will want to marry your daughters" — This is just one of the reasons being bandied about in villages to drum up opposition to the notification declaring 37% of the area in the Western …
PANJIM: The final report identifying eco-sensitive areas of the Western Ghats has been submitted to the State government for approval. The report that has identified 50 villages covering three talukas – Sattari, Sanguem and Canacona – as eco-sensitive areas (ESA), will be submitted for notification to the Union Ministry of …
Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar held a review meeting with State Environment and Forests Ministers here on Tuesday to review the progress of demarcation of Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA) in the Western Ghats region and discuss the further course of action in keeping with the recommendations of the 2013 Kasturirangan …
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said "misgivings" about implementation of Kasturirangan committee report on Western Ghats have to be "done away" with and a call on it will be taken by August end. Javadekar said that barring commercial mining and polluting industries there will no restriction on doing business in …
The Centre will come out with the final notification on earmarking an ecologically sensitive area (ESA) within the Western Ghats by August-end, incorporating suggestions of all the six states that may lead it to further reduce the 'no go' area by nearly 6,000 sq km. It is expected that the …
Environment and forest ministers of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu will meet here on Tuesday to discuss conservation of biodiversity of the Western Ghats and ways to provide adequate livelihood security to the local residents. According to an official release, the meeting to be attended by Environment …
The Centre on Tuesday will hold a crucial meeting on Western Ghats where environment ministers of six states - Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu - will discuss the progress made by them in physically demarcating ecologically sensitive area (ESA) along 1,500 kilometers of the western cost. The …
BENGALURU: Environmentalist Madhav Gadgil says he never expected his report on the Western Ghats to be accepted by the Government of India. In the city recently to deliver a special lecture on the Western Ghats, he told Express, “More pervasive in the globalised world of today, the destruction of environment, …
As the June 30 deadline to all six Western Ghat states to submit reports on physical demarcation of Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) ended on Tuesday, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) may now take decision statewise, with Kerala wanting an early order on the issue. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar …
The Kerala High Court today made it clear that the controversial 163 MW Athirapally hydel project, proposed in Thrissur district, cannot go ahead without environmental clearance from the central government. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Ashok Bhushan and A M Shaffique issued the direction on a batch of petitions …
Report highlights massive hill-cutting in region; Gadgil says previous and present govts do not care. It is been four years since experts panel on the Western Ghats ecology led by Madhav Gadgil highlighted the issue of massive hill-cutting in the entire region and warned of man-made disasters. However, till today, …
A new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B , by National Centre for Biological Sciences on high elevation songbirds of Western Ghats, has found that deep valleys have greater impact on speciation than shallow ones in this mountain chain. The study was conducted by Uma Ramakrishnan …
MADURAI: Locals are hopeful that the season at Courtallam, which should have commenced in the beginning of June, will start in a week, as the temperature refuses to go down in the hilly region. Called the 'Spa of South India', Courtallam hills and the waterfalls attract hundreds of tourists during …
At a time when plants and animals are under threat across the world, nature lovers and conservationists in India have 349 reasons to feel happy. Scientists and taxonomists of the country have discovered 349 new species of flora and fauna in the past one year — 173 species and genera …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has extended by 15 days the June 15 deadline for all six Western Ghat states to send report on physical demarcation of Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs). If the deadline were not adhered to, the Kasturirangan Committee Report will be treated as the final …
