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. …
Nagarika Seva Trust and Dakshina Kannada Parisarasaktara Okkuta urged the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel led by Madhav Gadgil not to recommend Gundia power project as well as other mini hydel power projects in the Western Ghat region. In a memorandum submitted to the Madhav Gadgil during his visit to …
A Western Ghats ecology expert panel headed by Madhav Gadgil will be scrutinising proposed nuclear power park at Jaitapur and four thermal power plants in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra from the angle of protection of environment during their 9-day visit from October 4. There will be field visits …
More than six decades after Independence, the Tamil Nadu government has woken up to the demands of tribals living in Vettukkadu village, surrounded by the Mullaiperiyar river and thick jungles of the Western Ghats, by opening a part-time ration shop in their area. This is the first government project in …
Ronald Anil Fernandes, Hongadahalla (Gundia Project site, Hassan dist), DHNS : There is a need for energy security, but not at the cost of ecology and environment, said Dr G V Subramanyan, Advisor to Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), after visiting Horibetta, Bettakumeri and Hongadahalla, the proposed sites …
Ronald Anil Fernandes, Hongadahalla (Gundia Project site, Hassan dist), DHNS : There is a need for energy security, but not at the cost of ecology and environment, said Dr G V Subramanyan, Advisor to Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), after visiting Horibetta, Bettakumeri and Hongadahalla, the proposed sites …
Hongadahalla (Hassan dist), Sept 16, DH News Service: A study made by Energy and Wetland Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) on - 'Biodiversity, Ecology and Socio-Economic aspects of Gundia River Basin in the context of proposed mega hydro electric power project' re-affirms that Gundia …
The Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD) has proposed to establish in situ conservation sites in 13 districts of the State, where it would collect information about floral biodiversity and document it. The Centre is also planning to start research and conservation of Rare, Endangered and Threatened (RET) species and link …
The main premise of political ecology is that environmental change is not a neutral process amenable to technical management. Rather, it has political sources, conditions and ramifications that impinge on socio-economic inequalities and political process. The article seeks to provide an introduction to the rapidly growing research field of Third …
State cabinet ministers from both the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are at loggerheads with Union minister for environment Jairam Ramesh for withholding clearance to several projects in the Konkan region, Vidarbha and Navi Mumbai. They are going to take up their complaint against Ramesh with the prime …
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS The action plan will be on the lines of the National Action Plan on Climate Change and would have additional missions specific to the geographical conditions of the State TAMIL NADU will have its own action plan on climate change by next March to address the …
K.S. Sudhi KOCHI: Ecologists have accused Power Minister A.K. Balan of issuing misleading information based on mistaken facts regarding the Athirappilly hydroelectric power project. It was a letter shot off by Mr. Balan to the Kerala MPs on the eve of a meeting of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Committee …
K.S. Sudhi KOCHI: The Central government has ruled out the reconstitution of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, which will decide on the fate of the Athirapilly and Pooyamkutty hydel power projects of Kerala. Vijayan's inclusion objected The MPs belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) had objected to …
A political storm is brewing in Kerala against Suzlon Energy, the wind turbine major. It is accused of running wind farms in illegally-bought land in tribal settlements and forest lands in the Attappady region of the Western Ghats. The United Democratic Front (UDF), a coalition of opposition parties led by …
Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has invited public opinion on the Western Ghats ecology.The letter written by the ministry to environmentalists and individuals posted on www.moef.gov.in states that the ministry would like to invite all concerned people to share their own perceptions as to what areas on the Western …
K.S. Sudhi Prof. Madhav Gadgil, chairman of the KOCHI: A decision on the Athirappilly and the Pooyamkutty hydroelectric projects of the Kerala State Electricity Board will be delayed as the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel has put them on the back-burner. The panel, which met in Thiruvananthapuram last week, has …
Sitting atop the Palni hills, Kodaikanal, the premier tourist destination of Tamil Nadu, does not evoke images of pollution. A winding road through the hills lifts you from the stifling heat of Madurai, 121 km away, to the mist-covered town. Along the upper reaches, a trained eye can glimpse thickets …
This study of the implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006 in the Western Ghats of Kerala identifies the main constraints to the working of the legislation. Community rights and conservation provisions seem to be ignored. The paper also highlights the importance of integrating the implementation of the fra with …
