Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajendra Prasad Gupta Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. Counsel appearing for the state of Uttar Pradesh submitted that the action plan to prevent the discharge of untreated sewage and industrial effluents in river Ganga is ready …
Justice (retired) Giridhar Malviya said that there should not be any dam or barrage to block the stream of the Ganga and Tehri dam should be dismantled in phases for free flow of the holy river. Addressing a meeting of national executive of Ganga Mahasabha on Tuesday, Justice Malviya said …
More than half the total sewage discharged into the Ganga every day comes from six big cities with Kolkata, Kanpur and Varanasi leading the pack.They are three of the 118 townscities that fall in the vast basin of the national river. Other top cities are Patna, Allahabad and Moradabad. These …
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking keen interest in cleaning of Ganga, a group of environmentalists will be petitioning him to pursue with UNESCO for declaration of upper region of the holy river as a World Heritage Site. “I have already written to the Union Ministry for Water Resources and …
In a move seen as a big boost to those fighting against illegal mining, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday directed the Uttarakhand government as well as the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to stop illegal mining in Haridwar district from immediate effect. The NGT bench, headed by …
KANPUR: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) will convene a joint meeting of the Pollution Control Board officials, chief secretary, principal secretary environment, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and CLRI officials to discuss the strategy to rid the Ganga of pollution on May 1. The officials would also discuss the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rizwan Tanning Industry & Others Vs. U.P.P.C.B. dated 10/04/2015 regarding industrial pollution of river Ganga, Uttar Pradesh especially by tanneries. The Tribunal noted that report of the joint inspection team has been filed and it is shown that the industry …
Offering a temporary reprieve to the polluting industries located on the banks of the Ganga, the government has extended the deadline for installing real-time effluent discharge meters till June 30. But the industries have time only till this week to tell the government whether they indeed intend to do so, …
A three-member panel constituted by the Centre to decide the environmental flow in the Ganga basin which gave varying opinions over the quantity and quality of water to be maintained in Yamuna, is likely to meet this week to arrive at a consensus. The committee, which includes the additional secretaries …
The National Green Tribunal has sought explanations from the central government and the Uttarakhand state government on the "unregulated" operation of rafting camps on the banks of Ganga between Shivpuri and Rishikesh in Uttarakhand. The state government has assured the tribunal that it will not grant permission to any new …
The National Green Tribunal has sought the Centre's response on "unregulated" operation of rafting camps on the banks of Ganga from Shivpuri to Rishikesh in Uttarakhand. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notice to Environment Ministry (MoEF), Ministry of Water Resources, Uttarakhand government and others on …
Differences of opinion among the members of a panel set up to decide on the 'Environmental Flow' in Yamuna river has forced the Ministry of Water Resources to ask them to arrive at a consensus so that their report can be submitted to another body set up by the National …
Matri Sadan seers, long campaigning for a curb on mining in the Ganga, won a major battle on Wednesday, when a state-level committee comprising officials of the Union ministry of environment and forests, validated most of the complaints they had made against the proposed mining of minor minerals by the …
HARIDWAR: Matri Sadan's Swami Shivanand on Tuesday went ahead with his threat, which he made on Sunday, to sit on an indefinite hunger strike against mining along the Ganga. This is the second such protest by seers of the Haridwar ashram in the last month and a half. "The state …
GHAZIABAD: With summer approaching, the spectre of a water crisis looms large over five lakh residents of Mohan Nagar. Residents fear, with civic authority Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam unprepared as before, they will have to battle an acute water crisis this year as well. Last summer, areas like Shalimar Garden, Vikram …
Global agricultural production is heavily sustained by irrigation, but irrigation system efficiencies are often surprisingly low. However, our knowledge of irrigation efficiencies is mostly confined to rough indicative estimates for countries or regions that do not account for spatio-temporal heterogeneity due to climate and other biophysical dependencies. To allow for …
If the Centre has its way, the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) - a key central body which monitors planning and execution of all schemes of Ganga rejuvenation in coordination with five states - will be converted into a commission under Parliament Act so that it can work more …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked Chief Ministers and representatives of Ganga Basin states to “create enough awareness to stop pollution” of the river in their respective areas. Chairing the fifth meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority here, Mr. Modi observed that the task of cleaning the …
Waking up to the recent reports which highlighted how more than two-thirds of the sewage generated in 118 towns — located in the Ganga river basin — get discharged into the country's national river 'untreated', the Centre has asked five states to furnish their action plan to set up and …
Moving ahead with its plans to ensure compliance of the anti-pollution norms by polluting industries and municipal bodies located on the banks of Ganga by 2016, the Centre has asked municipalities and industrial units in five states through which the holy river passes to furnish action plan for sewage treatment …
