The NGT sought response from a joint committee regarding complaint of violation of environmental norms in the matter of morrum mining in the river bed of Betwa river, tehsil Sarila, district Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh. The joint committee will comprise the District Magistrate, Hamirpur and Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board. It …
The government expects to spend a massive Rs 5,60,000 crore on various river interlinking (ILR) projects, according to a statement by Minister of State, Water Resources, Sanjeev Balyan in the Lok Sabha on Monday. Though this is only a projection and not timebound — as none of these projects are …
Addition of four satellite core areas, 8000 hectares of extra buffer area adjacent to the Panna Tiger Reserve, a possible reduction in the height of the Daudhan dam and an environment management plan of Rs.5073 crore are the chief mitigation plans the union environment ministry has put forth in the …
The study by the environment ministry valued the benefits of the project at Rs 3000 crore anually A study commissioned by the Union environment, forests and climate change ministry has concluded that interlinking the Ken and Betwa would stifle the ecosystem services the Ken provided. Commissioned by the Environment Ministry …
Panna, Madhya Pradesh: The Centre's project to link Ken and Betwa rivers has become a stage for a man-animal conflict in Madhya Pradesh's Panna tiger reserve. While both the Centre and the state government see this project as a solution to the water crisis in Bundelkhand region, activists are worried …
Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Minister Uma Bharati has threatened to go on a hunger strike if concerns for tigers and vultures come in the way of linking two rivers that will benefit millions of people in central India. The ministry also favours concurrent audits by the Comptroller …
The National Green Tribunal has constituted a panel to inspect the Betwa river bank in Jalaun and Hamirpur districts of Uttar Pradesh and probe the allegations of rampant illegal sand mining in the area. A Bench headed by Justice U. D. Salvi, which appointed retired forest official Anmol Kumar and …
The controversy hit project intends to divert water from Ken river in Madhya Pradesh to Betwa river in Uttar Pradesh for irrigation and it will submerge 5,258 hectares of forest land including 4,141 ha of Panna Tiger Reserve. The expert appraisal committee (EAC) earlier in February had said that it …
A team of wildlife experts submitted a crucial report Monday on which hinges the fate of the first-ever inter-State river linking project since India’s independence. The submitted report — not yet public — warns of the dangers to the ecology and animal life due to the proposed Ken-Betwa project. The …
The Rs 10,000-crore project requires diversion of 5,258 hectares of forest land, including 4,141 hectares of Panna Tiger Reserve. The standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) Tuesday decided to clear Phase-I of the Ken-Betwa river linking project even though the expert committee constituted by the board is …
BHOPAL: A six-member National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) panel will this week recommend the way forward for the proposed interlinking of Ken and Betwa rivers in Madhya Pradesh, a project wildlife experts claim will prove detrimental to the Panna Tiger Reserve. The interlinking project, India's first and worth Rs 17,000 …
Expert committee asks why opposition of MP wildlife officers was overruled The Centre's wait for Ken-Betwa river linking project's environment clearance (EC) has got longer as the Union environment ministry's expert committee has questioned the Madhya Pradesh government's decision to overrule its own senior wildlife officers who opposed state wildlife …
BHOPAL: When expert appraisal committee (EPA) on river valley and hydropower projects met to decide environment clearance to Ken-Betwa river link proposal, on Feb 8 and 9, it was flooded with fervent appeals from environmentalists to save Panna national park and its tigers. Correlating the issue with climate change, experts …
According to officials of the water resources ministry all three clearances are before different expert appraisal panels of the union environment ministry, under process. The Ken-Betwa river linking project, monitored closely by the Prime Minister's Office, is likely to take off only by the end of this year said top …
Assures interests of both Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, from where the two rivers to be linked pass, will be “fully” protected Union Minister of State for Water Resources Sanwar Lal Jat on Wednesday urged stakeholders to take up Ken-Betwa river-linking project, first such attempt of connecting rivers in the …
Veteran conservationist and former director of Project Tiger Hemendra Singh Panwar has critiqued the ambitious Ken-Betwa river linking project for the impacts it will have on tigers and Ken River's biodiversity in a strong letter written to the environment ministry. Hitting out at the project's environment impact assessment (EIA) report …
The Centre's ambitious Rs 9,393 crore Ken-Betwa river interlinking project will impact "very significantly" the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, a green panel has said while suggesting that the issue needs to be studied more carefully before granting final green signal. The Environment Ministry gives green nod to 'A' …
NEW DELHI: An NGO on Wednesday moved the National Green Tribunal against the rampant illegal sand mining being carried out in Jalaun and Hamirpur districts of Uttar Pradesh, prompting the National Green Tribunal to direct authorities to immediately stop these activities. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi issued …
BHOPAL: Besides tiger habitat, 60% habitat of vultures, especially endangered Egyptian vulture, will be submerged in proposed Ken Betwa (KB) river link project in Panna tiger reserve of Madhya Pradesh. The reserve is "very important and rare" home to these vultures, meeting of state wildlife board was told, by forest …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jan Sashaktikaran Vs. Union of India & Ors.dated 30/09/2015 regarding sand mining in Village Himanpura, and Village Bhedi Khurd, District Jalaun in river bed of river Betwa, Uttar Pradesh.
If the board okays the project, it would go for National Wildlife Board for further clearance Despite receiving a temporary setback from the state wildlife advisory board on the linking of the Ken river in Madhya Pradesh and Betwa river in Uttar Pradesh last month, the Madhya Pradesh government is …
