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. …
Here is proof that it is almost impossible for a project put up for clearance to be really rejected by the environment ministry. In a single sitting, the statutory Forest Advisory Committee has cleared several projects it had earlier rejected for falling foul of green regulations or being too damaging …
A team of researchers from the University of Calicut has reported the discovery of a new subspecies of wild banana that could be developed as an ornamental plant for tropical gardens. The plant Musa velutina subsp. markkuana was discovered from the forests of Arunachal Pradesh and is characterised by smooth …
PANJIM: At least 99 villages including around 90 in the heart of the State’s mining belts of Sattari and Sanguem have been declared ecologically sensitive areas under the Environment Protection Act, 1976, by the Kasturirangan report, amidst accusations that it had sought to dilute the Gadgil panel report. The high-powered …
Kerala, Karnataka Want Region Free Of Modified Crops Thiruvananthapuram: In contrast to the stand of the Kerala and Karnataka governments, the Union agriculture ministry bats for geneticallymodified (GM) crops in the Western Ghats area in its report submitted to the Kasturirangan committee. Both Kerala and Karnataka have already called for …
‘The project will submerge patches of the riparian forests’ The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) constituted high-level working group (HLWG) headed by Planning Commission member K. Kasturirangan has said that the government should reassess the impact that the Gundia hydroelectric power project will have on the environment and proceed …
MUMBAI: Activists have denounced the Kasturirangan high level working group for the exclusion of Dodamarg from ecologically sensitive areas (ESA) in its recommendations to the Union ministry of environment and forests. The group was set up to review the report submitted by the Madhav Gadgil led Western Ghats ecology expert …
The Supreme Court order is unlikely to bring any big relief to metal and mining companies. With the global markets in the grip of a slowdown, export of iron ore from the country has already hit an all-time low level of 18 million tonne in 2012-13 and any increase in …
Apreliminary analysis of the Kasturirangan-chaired report of the high level working group (HLWG) shows that the recommendations, if implemented, would release thousands of acres of eco-fragile land along the Western Ghats for ‘development’ which was previously demarcated as eco sensitive zones (ESZ) by the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP). …
Identifying 37 per cent — or about 60,000 square km — of the Western Ghats as ecologically sensitive, a high-level panel has recommended that “destructive” activities such as mining, thermal power, major construction, and some hydel power projects should not be allowed there. However, the panel was silent about any …
The 10-member panel has also moved away from the suggestions of the Gadgil panel A crucial report on Western Ghats prepared by K Kasturirangan-led high-level working group (HLWG) has recommended prohibition on development activities in 60,000 sq km ecologically sensitive area spread over Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala and Tamil …
Two new genera of frogs were discovered by a team of independent researchers, led by Anil Zachariah and Robin Kurian Abraham, during their recent exploration in the Western Ghats. The discovery, published in the latest issue of International Taxonomic Journal Zootaxa , is a joint effort by the team which …
Marking a major departure from the report of the committee led by ecologist Madhav Gadgil that had called for declaring the entire Western Ghats as an ecologically sensitive area (ESA), the 10-member high-level working group headed by Planning Commission member K Kasturirangan has recommended that only 37 per cent of …
Around 60,000 sq km of Western Ghats, spread across six states, should be turned into a no-go area for commercial activities like mining, thermal power plants, polluting industries and large housing plans, the high-level working group headed by Planning Commission member K Kasturirangan has recommended. The committee has not recommended …
Dharwad-based NGO Jan Sangram Parishat (JSP) has urged the Union and the state governments concerned to accept and implement the report of the Western Ghats Expert Panel submitted to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on August 31, 2011. JSP convenor S R Hiremath said here at the weekend …
Environment ministry accepts this crucial report on Western Ghats prepared by K Kasturirangan-led 10-member high-level working group and decides to declare the Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) over 37% of the Western Ghats under the Environment Protection Act, 1986. Download, read this report along with related documents, studies and more... The …
Unlike in north India, where there is no respite from summer and the mercury just keeps soaring, the atmospheric temperature in the state used to remain constant almost throughout the summer months. Not anymore. The temperatures, even in the hilly areas of the state, have risen by a degree above …
The NGT passed the order on April 2 after Kerala submitted that non-finalisation of the Gadgil panel report is affecting the state's commercial activities and development The National Green Tribunal has asked the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to take expeditious steps to finalise the report of Gadgil Committee …
The Kerala River Protection Council has called upon K. Kasturirangan, chairman of the high-level working group on Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP), not to dilute the recommendations of the Madhav Gadgil committee. It claims the report marks the beginning of a totally different planning process involving the local people …
Rs 280-Cr Plan Focuses On Rehabilitation Of Sahyadri Villages Kolhapur: The state forest department has submitted the first detailed conservation plan for Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR) to the Union ministry of environment and forest. The Rs 280-crore plan focuses on the rehabilitation of villages on the fringe of the reserve …
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is reconsidering its clearance for the controversial Kalu Dam in Thane district. About 999.328 hectares of forest land in the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats region is up for diversion for the drinking water project for Mumbai …
