Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hemant Kumar & Others Vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 13/05/2025. An application was received by the NGT filed by Hemant Kumar on behalf of all the villagers of Gram Panchayat Salani Katola, tehsil Nahan, district Sirmaur, Himachal …
This draft of Tamil Nadu state environment policy 2012 strives to look at the regulatory framework, its adequacy, the awareness levels among the stakeholders, the recent judicial pronouncements and participation of technical institutions/industries in furthering the cause of environment.
This report is intended to provide an overview of the concept of ecosystem approach to disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR), natural resource management and disaster linkages, incorporating Eco-DRR concepts in various phases of disaster management, including post disaster recovery in wide range of human and natural environmental settings. The case studies …
The Tamil Nadu Government has decided to set up a 660 MW supercritical thermal power plant at Ennore at a cost of Rs 3,960 crore, announced the Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, in the Assembly today. In a suo motu statement, she said the 40-year-old Ennore thermal power plant to …
The Yashoram Infra Developers Private Limited has informed the Kerala High Court that the implementation of the proposed sky city project would not cause any damage to coastal ecosystems or the backwater system in the city. In an affidavit, the company said that no reclamation of backwaters or wetland was …
A two-day workshop, titled “Fishery-dependent Livelihoods, Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity: The Case of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas in India”, was held in New Delhi during 1-2 March 2012. The workshop was a follow-up to the one held in Chennai in 2009, which was titled “Social Dimensions of …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests implements policies and programmes relating to conservation of the country's natural resources including lakes and rivers, biodiversity, forests and wildlife, ensuring the welfare of animals and prevention and abatement of pollution. The Annual Report to the People on Environment and Forests is trying to …
MUMBAI: The state government seems to have finally hit upon the idea of trading in scarce land as equity for slum redevelopment in areas governed by coastal regulation zone (CRZ) norms. S Zende-Patil , chief executive officer of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), proposed to the government to use land …
The National Green Tribunal has put on hold the Bhadreshwar thermal power plant at Mundra in Gujarat. It has asked the project proponent, OPG Power Gujarat Pvt Ltd, to stop all works at its 300 MW power plant till it gets the requisite environmental clearance. "We have no hesitation to …
New Delhi The National Green Tribunal has ordered OPG Power Gujarat Pvt Ltd to stop all works at its 300 mw Bhadreshwar thermal power plant at Mundra in Gujarat till it gets the requisite environmental clearance. ‘‘We have no hesitation to hold that until OPG Power Gujarat Pvt Ltd obtains …
All large residential, commercial and retail projects, projects involving redevelopment of slums, cessed or dilapidated building and public infrastructure projects that fall within the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) will henceforth be required to go through a detailed public hearing in order to get a CRZ clearance. The state government, through …
Move was proposed to provide employment under the MGNREGS Timely intervention by environment activists has prevented the destruction of a rich mangrove forest at Azheekkal in Alapad grama panchayat in Kollam district. The forest stands in a property owned by the Fisheries Resource Management Society (FIRMA), a wing of the …
PURI: A corporation for preservation of environment in adherence to CRZ norms for sustained beach tourism development, comprising all the beach settlements of the State, needs to be formed, felt experts and NGOs participating in a seminar on beach tourism development organised by the Beach Protection Council of Odisha here …
MUMBAI: In a bid to push the plan for setting up a 29-km freeway along Mumbai's western coast, the state government on Monday asked the Centre to consider modifying the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms and permitting reclamation for construction of a road. The demand was made during a meeting …
Bhubaneswar: The proposed all-weather multipurpose port near the Subarnarekha river mouth in Balasore district has received environmental clearance of the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). The project is to be developed by Chennai-based Creative Port Development Limited (CPDL), and a company has been …
After numerous delays in the construction of the city’s longest Metro corridor, running between Charkop and Mankhurd, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) seems to have finally woken up. The authority has sent a strongly worded letter to the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) asking it to relax …
Mumbai: In an about-turn, former municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak on Monday insisted that Adarsh Housing Society had a valid clearance from the Union ministry of environment and forests. "The March 2003 letter from the state urban development department read with the MoEF's letter constitutes a CRZ clearance," Phatak said during …
BHUBANESWAR: The Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project (ICZMP) of Odisha is set to embrace low carbon strategies through its project components in the State. The ICZMP has set off on a series of plans for reduction of carbon footprints while putting in place infrastructure across the State. It has already …
The ‘horse racing' organised by Sankalp Pratishthan, an NGO headed by state minister for housing Sachin Ahir's wife Sangita, has come under the scanner for allegedly violating environmental rules. Sankalp Pratishthan, which is well known for its annual Dahihandi celebrations at the Jambori Ground in Worli, is organising a horse …
