Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
They Work In Harsh Conditions Without healthcare facilities Aruna Raghuram | TNN Ahmedabad: They may be the salt of the earth, but in Kutch they live in deplorable conditions. For one, good health seems unattainable for women salt workers, or agariyas. A study conducted by head of Peace Research Centre …
The Rann is the most remarkable and unique feature of the Kachchh region. 'City of Flamingoes' - the only known breeding grounds of the Flamingo in India had been first reported and discovered in the 1886 by Maharao Khengarji, but it was Dr Salim Ali's work that forms the first …
Ongole, July 27: Aqua culture and salt industries have turned soil saline in many parts of Prakasam district making large chunks of land unfit for cultivation. Salt cultivation is on in 7,867 acres in four mandals of the district and in the last one decade, aquaculture is also on the …
AGNIMIRH BASU The earth is cracked and the horizon bare. The deathly silence is broken by the occasional whirring of crude-oil pumps. Women, going about their daily life in bright mirror-work lehangas, add a dash of colour to an otherwise arid background. This tough terrain has dominted 50-year-old Shantabhai Maganbhai …
"Engineers like me can't help marvel at the Agaria's skills,' says Vinay Mahajan of the Ahmedabad-based independent research institute Sandarbh Development Studies. Mahajan has co-authored a paper, Yet to be freed, on the lives of Agarias. In March-April, when the salt harvest is ready, dust laden winds can wreak havoc. …
While the Agarias wage a constant struggle with the forest department, the government has allegedly turned a blind eye to pollution by two soda ash-making units run by major industrial groups. At Mithapur in Jamnagar district's Okha taluka there are charges of pollution against a salt-and-soda ash unit run by …
At the Tata plant in Mithapur, effluent is taken to huge mud trenches, effluent-settlement ponds, which cover about 243 ha. The liquid is supposed to go to the sea from here after suspended solids in it settle down. According to the Consent to Operate given to the company in 2004, …
In the post-tsunami period, in the midst of hectic relief work, the Social Activities for Rural Development Society (SARDS), an NGO working in the Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh, made a startling discovery. While every government and voluntary agency in the area was bending over backwards to offer relief to …
"Why shouldn't salt-making be classed as agriculture?' asks R Potharaju. "Both require land, water and sunshine, and are subject to vagaries of nature,' he reasons. Potharaju is convenor of the Prakasam District Salt Farmers Forum. The forum believes that an official categorisation as agriculture would take care of the many …
The photograph above shows a memorial to two protestors killed in police firing in 1999 in in Chinganjam mandala of Prakasam district. Since that year, a 225 ha stretch has become a bone of contention between the local people and the Snow White Salts company. The land has been leased …
round salt: In what may be a boon to consumers and industry, a group of chemists in India has reported a method to make round salt. Scientists have been striving for years to smoothen the shape of common salt, which forms as cube-shaped crystals, to make it free flowing. Pushpito …
union minister of health and family welfare Anbumani Ramadoss recently caused much confusion by announcing that India will ban the sale of non-iodized salt from August 15, 2005, though the decision in this regard is still pending. Interest groups were thrown into a tizzy trying to validate their stands. The …
Letter to M/s Adani Chemicals Limited from additional director on establishment of salt works at Mundra District Kachchh by M/s Adani Chemicals Limited dated 04/08/2005.
the Union government is considering the restoration of the national ban on the consumption of non-iodised salt. The move has been triggered by reports of surveys conducted in various states on iodine deficiency disorders (idd), according to sources in the Union ministry of health and family welfare (mohfw). A letter …
as per a study, workers employed in Indian salt farms are prone to hypertension with their injuries and skin ulcers leading to sub-skin absorption of salt. Excessive consumption of common salt (sodium chloride) is a known cause of acute hypertension. The study was conducted by researchers from the Jodhpur-based Desert …
Letter to secretary (forests) Govt of Gujarat to Asstt Inspector General of Forests on diversion of 1850 ha (approved area 1840 ha.) of forest land for high purity salt in favour of M/s. Adani Chemicals Ltd., in Kutch Distt., Gujarat dated 13th May 2004.
the Union government has recently lifted the ban on the use of non-iodised salt. According to medical scientists, this will lead to a "national disaster'. Health ministers of various states, during a recent meeting had agreed with the medical scientists and opined that the ban should continue. But, some people, …
