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 …
Minister for Water Resources Ramesh Chandra Sen has said Bangladesh is getting her just share of water from the common rivers- Ganga and Teesta. "There will be no problem of water in the southwestern part of the country after completion of on-going project-- dredging of Gorai River. Government is determined …
The Government of India (GoI) has established the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) for comprehensive management of the river. The NGRBA program will adopt a river-basin approach and has been given a multi-sectoral mandate to address both water quantity and quality aspects. The NGRBA has resolved that by year …
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government, on Saturday, approved the closure of 5 out of 21 blacklisted tanneries that have been polluting the Ganga in the state. Closure notices, UP Pollution Control Board officials confirmed, were served to the errant tanneries after informing them about the need to set up primary treatment …
The Himalayan glaciers are a valuable national and global resource – they possess the largest concentration of ice outside of the Polar Regions; regulate global climate; feed most of northern India’s perennial rivers; and are an important indicator of climate change. However, this source of water is not permanent, as …
The Himalayan glaciers are a valuable national and global resource – they possess the largest concentration of ice outside of the Polar Regions; regulate global climate; feed most of northern India’s perennial rivers; and are an important indicator of climate change. However, this source of water is not permanent, as …
The objectives of the project are to support the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) in: building capacity of its nascent operational-level institutions, so that they can manage the long-term Ganga clean-up and conservation program; and implementing a diverse set of demonstrative investments for reducing point-source pollution loads in a …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved a Rs.7,000-crore project to clean the Ganga. It will be implemented by the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA). The Centre's share will be Rs.5,100 crore and that of the governments of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal …
KOLKATA, 17 APRIL: At a time when leaders of both the CPI-M and the Trinamul Congress are all out to woo voters ahead of the Assembly election and have been appearing in several forums to answer people's queries, a set of questionnaire sent by a city-based NGO on the parties
Tremors of Japan's earthquake are being felt in Uttar Pradesh as government officials are sceptic about funding by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in the ongoing projects as this Land of Rising Sun is itself facing a financial crunch post-tsunami. The JICA is financing projects including Gangajal under which …
The government's decision to declare a 135 km stretch of the Ganga from Gaumukh to Uttarkashi an eco-sensitive zone has not gone down well with the construction lobby which was hoping to make huge profits from the hydropower projects to be constructed on the river. Following the ministry of environment …
KRISHNAGAR, 1 APRIL: The indifferent attitude of the Left Front government to address issues including checking erosion of the Ganga river bank, providing electricity to a large number of people residing near the river banks has clearly put the Opposition candidate of Kalyani Assembly seat far ahead of the Left …
Nearly 3 billion additional urban dwellers are forecasted by 2050, an unprecedented wave of urban growth. While cities struggle to provide water to these new residents, they will also face equally unprecedented hydrologic changes due to global climate change. Here we use a detailed hydrologic model, demographic projections, and climate …
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti will soon start Ganga Bachao Himalaya Bachao Andolan. The movement will begin from Uttarakhand. Uma Bharti met the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari in Nagpur on March 20 and is believed to have assured him that her campaign would not cause …
Understanding crop water productivity over large river basins has significant implications for sustainable basin development planning. This report presents a new approach for analysis of water productivity (WP) of rice and wheat in the Indus and the Ganges river basins, South Asia, based on the integration of readily available remote …
LUCKNOW: The aftershocks of tsunami in Japan have reached Uttar Pradesh. The National Ganga River Basin Authority's (NGRBA) ambitious plan to cleanse one of the most polluted stretch of river Ganga in Varanasi is facing the prospects of a forced closure. Funded by the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA), the …
The Environment Ministry on Monday sanctioned 43 projects worth over Rs 2,400 crore for four States to make river Ganga pollution-free and to conserve it under the Mission Clean Ganga project.
New DelhiThe ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has sanctioned 43 projects worth R2,476 crore to the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) for abatement of pollution and conservation of the river. The centre
Rs. 200 crore each allocated to Green India Mission and environmental remediation programmes The cess slapped on coal in last year's budget will help pay for schemes to protect and regenerate forests and clean up polluted sites announced in this year's Budget. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has allocated Rs. 200 …
Construction of embankments is a popular structural measure of flood control. However, when breaches occur, as in case of Kosi & Malda embankments, extensive damages and loss of life occur. The need for critically analyzing the exact causes has been highlighted in the article, to avert such catastrophe in future.
Worried over the declining turtle population in the country, the Zoological Survey of India is in the process of undertaking a new survey of fresh water turtles inhabiting the Ganga to collect scientific knowledge on the current population and bio-ecology of the endangered species. The research is being led by …
