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. …
Environment ministry will consider views of chief ministers of all states in the Western Ghats region before issuing the draft notification for declaring the the mountain chain as an ecologically sensitive area, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. Environment minister Veerappa Moily also said that the ministry has not …
Centre urged to reject ‘anti-farmer’ recommendations The State Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution urging the Union government to reject the “anti-farmer” recommendations of the Kasturirangan Committee, besides totally exempting thickly populated centres and agriculture land while identifying Ecologically Sensitive Areas, taking into consideration the apprehension of the people. …
Chandy To Hold Talks With Union Minister Veerappa Moily Today Assuaging the concerns of those staying in the high ranges, the Prime Minister’s Office informed the state government on Thursday that a final decision on Kasturirangan committee report would be taken only after the ministry of environment and forests incorporated …
Kottayam: The Church of South India(CSI) Madhya Kerala Diocese demanded implementation of Madhav Gadgil panel report on Western Ghats without affecting the livelihood of farmers. Speaking after inaugurating the conference on ecology held in connection with the third jubilee memorial convention of the diocese, bishop Thomas K Oommen said: “It …
NEW DELHI: In what may create lot of unease among villagers in Kerala, Maharashtra and other states in Western Ghats, the Union environment and forest ministry on Tuesday told the National Green Tribunal that its "order" banning certain human activities including setting up polluting industries and big construction projects in …
Environment Ministry contradicts Moily’s statements Contradicting the statements made by M. Veerappa Moily, the Union Environment and Forests Ministry informed the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday that orders banning fresh industrial and mining activities in the Western Ghats continued to stand. The Centre had not withdrawn approval for the Kasturirangan …
Has the Drinking Water Project (DWP) on Yettinahole river located in the minister of environment Veerappa Moily’s parliamentary constituency of Chikkaballapur flouted a host of environmental rules ? Environmentalists insist that the DWP is a misnomer as this has been designed as a major irrigation project which will require the …
Kolhapur: The first national census in the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR) is halfway through as experts completed the transect line observations and began the carnivore census from Tuesday. The count, which began on Friday last week, will conclude on Thursday. The national tiger census is conducted every four years and …
Coffee planters in Karnataka's Kodagu district are an apprehensive lot. They believe the acceptance of the Kasturirangan report to conserve Western Ghats will make them helplessly watch their disease-afflicted crop wither away for it bans the use of pesticides in their area. They feel they may not be able to …
Environment minister M Veerappa Moily will soon write to chief ministers of six states asking them to send their suggestions on the controversial Kasturirangan committee report which had recommended prohibiting certain activities like mining, setting up polluting industries and big constructions in around 60,000 sq km area across these states …
Crested serpent eagle, one of the birds sighted during the census. The Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS), where tigers have been sighted recently, is also rich in bird diversity. The first-ever bird survey, which concluded on Sunday, recorded 19 more bird species than compiled earlier. Of the new species, at least …
The State Cabinet sub-committee on Western Ghats, on Thursday, resolved to hold the rights to review the red industries mentioned in the Kasturirangan report. In a meeting chaired by Forest and Environment Minister, Ramanath Rai, the sub-committee took the decision to review the State-owned red industries set up in the …
Poet Sugathakumari said the people of the state should reject the Kasturirangan committee report and support Madhav Gadgil’s Western Ghats Expert Ecology Panel report which stands for sustainable development and long-term conservation of environment. Sugathakumari was speaking at a meeting organized by the Western Ghats Joint Action Protection Council in …
The three-member expert committee seems to have gone soft on planters and estate owners exempting plantations from ecologically sensitive areas (ESAs) which may proves disastrous for ecological conservation in the long run. Environmentalists point out that the Kerala’s green canopy is not just because of forests areas but it also …
A row has erupted over the report submitted by the expert panel constituted by the state government to review the Kasturirangan panel report on Western Ghats, as sections of the greens and political leaders have opposed its key recommendation to expunge the Environmentally Fragile Land (EFL) Act or to do …
It may be left for the next govt to take a call on the Kasturirangan panel's recommendations With the Lok Sabha elections around the corner and the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s second term in office nearing a close, the controversial Kasturirangan committee report on Western Ghats appears to be …
The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench here on Thursday ordered notice to the Union government and the Kerala government on applications challenging the recent notification of Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for the implementation of the suggestions made by Kasturirangan panel on Western Ghats conservation. The NGT Bench comprising …
Exercise follows disclosure by Gadgil that 1,700 illegal quarries operate in State Ecologist Madhav Gadgil’s disclosure on illegal quarries in the Kerala part of Western Ghats has resulted in the Department of Mining and Geology planning to compile a list of quarries in the State. The Directorate of Mining and …
The dist accounts for 23 pc of total encroachments in State A whopping 35,946 acres of forest land in Chikmagalur district, especially in the Sringeri range forest, has been encroached upon, according to documents submitted by the Samaj Parivarthan Samudaya (SPS) to the High Court, along with an affidavit. The …
Madhav Gadgil, eminent ecologist, has alleged that 1,700 illegal quarries are operating in the crest line of sensitive areas of the Western Ghats in Kerala. Dr. Gadgil, who had chaired the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, the report of which led to an uproar in the State, was speaking at …
