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. …
The Swadeshi Jagaran Manch has demanded the withdrawal of the Kasturirangan Committee report on the Western Ghats. It called upon the Centre to implement the Madhav Gadgil Committee report instead and protect, preserve and enrich the biodiversity for ecologically sustainable development. ECOLOGICAL HEALTH The demand was made in a resolution …
Goa Minister for Forests Alina Saldanha has criticised the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), accusing it of trying to force the recommendations of the K. Kasturirangan Committee report on the Western Ghats on the State. In her letter dated December 6, the Minister reiterated the State government’s stand …
The state environment department has submitted a proposal to mitigate the possible development impact on 123 villages classified as Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESAs) as per the Kasturirangan-led high-level working group report. The welfare funds will be utilized to improve basic amenities like watershed management plan, livestock development, promotion of eco-tourism …
MANGALORE: A study done by researchers has revealed that there is morphological and genetic evidence to show the presence of multiple evolutionary distinct lineages in the endangered and commercially exploited Red Lined Torpedo Barbs (RLTB) endemic to the Western Ghats of India. The researchers have now placed these barbs under …
Mounting fears by anxious people over possible eviction from their land led to an uproar at a hearing by the expert committee on Kasturirangan panel report on Western Ghats in Kottayam, which prompted the state government to retract its previous order and issue a clarified order on Saturday. Yet it …
PANJIM: The Goa government, has criticized the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), alleging that it is trying to force the recommendations of the K Kasturirangan-led working group on the Western Ghats, on it. The government argued that the report did not reflect the ground realities. Forest Minister Alina …
PANAJI: The Goa government has lambasted the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) for trying to impose the findings of the K Kasturirangan-led working group on the Western Ghats on the state administration. In a letter addressed to Union minister for environment and forests Jayanthi Natarajan, state forest minister …
The Goa government has stated that the K Kasturirangan panel findings on the Western Ghats cannot be accepted, as recommendations are unilateral. Forest minister Alina Saldanha has written to the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), stating that the directions issued by the ministry after accepting the panel report …
Await fresh orders, State tells officials The State government has withdrawn the order it had issued on Wednesday asking officials at the local level not to refuse various services to people citing the K. Kasturirangan committee recommendations. The government has decided to issue a fresh order after receiving the recommendations …
Experts Say Kasturirangan Report Does Not Ban Construction, Cultivation, Tourism And Infrastructure Development In Villages In ESA Viju B Chief minister Oommen Chandy may have succumbed to political pressure from UDF allies, quarry owners and church authorities, who want a drastic reduction in the number of villages categorized as Ecological …
Chief minister Oommen Chandy on Monday said senior officials with the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) have admitted to loopholes in the Kasturirangan-led high-level working group report. The MoEF officials said they would rectify the errors before implementing the report recommendations, said Chandy, who held a meeting with the …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that the State government is confident of solving the concerns of the people of the State about the K. Kasturirangan committee report by convincing the Centre about the need for changing some of its “adverse” recommendations. Inaugurating a seminar to evaluate the report, organised …
Multiple dams are planned and are under construction on the west flowing rivers near Mumbai for the growing drinking and industrial water needs of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and the entire Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). In the media and in official MMR discussions, these projects are portrayed as …
People of Chakkittapara say they have lived as one with nature, seek people’s report “If they touch us, it will be another Jallianwala Bagh here,” Chakkittapara grama panchayat president K. Sunil shouts over the anxious din of a grama sabha held at Muthukad Lower Primary School on the slopes of …
Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday cancelled the permission granted to MSPL Limited for mining of iron ore from Chakkittapara in Kozhikode district. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the media after the Cabinet meeting that the Industries Department had put up a note to the Cabinet to cancel the permission granted by …
Project to generate baseline data on ecology Scientists of the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) will join hands with their counterparts in other research institutions for long- term monitoring of the Western Ghats ecology to understand the impact of climate change and develop strategies for conservation and restoration of tropical …
5 firms likely to ask for rethink on application to open new quarries As many as five firms may ask for reconsideration of their application for opening new granite quarries in Western Ghats, invoking an order of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest. The applications of firms for opening …
Though conservationists welcomed the directions issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) prohibiting mining and all Red category Industries within 4,089 villages in the Western Ghats across six South Western States, they have urged the government to prohibit any new large scale alteration or obstruction to natural flow …
The State government will file its views to a notification of the Ministry of Environment and Forests that proposes to declare 37 per cent of the Western Ghats as Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA). The notification seeks to ban mining, quarrying, thermal power plants and red-category industries in these zones after …
Report has permitted uncontrolled quarrying in most parts of ghats The Kasturirangan report has thrown open the ecologically sensitive areas of Western Ghats to mindless exploitation which would seriously hazard ecology, according to its critics. According to member of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) V.S. Vijayan: the report …
