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 …
Recent news that the Indian Central Government, in the first meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority, chaired by the Hon. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, had decided to declare the Ganges dolphin, Platanista gangetica gangetica, as national aquatic animal was most welcome to cetacean specialists and enthusiasts and environmentalists …
More than 20,000 people displaced by the Ganga came down to the streets today, demanding relief and rehabilitation for more than 1.5 lakh victims who have lost their home and hearth to the river in the past two decades. The people flocked here under the banner of the Panchanandapur Ganga …
New Delhi: With Uttar Pradesh curtailing water supply to the Bhagirathi and Sonia Vihar plants for an additional eight days due to annual maintenance of the Ganga Canal, Delhi is likely to face a serious water crisis till the city makes alternative arrangements. With water level in the Yamuna also …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Heaving three boats that weigh nearly a thousand kilograms over dried river beds, suddenly walking into a fair in an obscure village, a crewmember down for a week with a mild form of typhoid
Mr Andy Lehman, a Swiss citizen, who, along with his team, recently completed in 35 days a 2,500-km-long journey by boat along the Ganga, from Gangotri in the Himalayas to Sagar Island near the mouth of the Hooghly, will present a video documentary on the expedition at the Copenhagen Climate …
CHENNAI: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop all dam construction activities at various points on the Ganga, especially from the Bhagirathi river stage. Addressing mediapersons here on Tuesday, Dr. Swamy said that during his two days trekking up the Ganga banks from Haridwar …
LUCKNOW: It would take more than just installing a sewage treatment plant (STP) to infuse a fresh lease of life into the dying Gomti. At least, in the opinion of Magsasay award winner, Rajendra Singh, popularly known as `water man of India'. Singh, who was in the state capital on …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) on Monday approved an ambitious project to prevent the discharge of untreated municipal sewage and industrial effluent into the Ganga by 2020. An estimated investment of Rs. 15,000 crore over the next 10 years will be required to create …
NEW DELHI: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has expressed doubts over the capacity of the proposed institutional framework to carry out cleaning of the Ganga and ensure bringing down of pollution as planned by the National Ganga River Basin Authority. Speaking at the first meeting of the Authority here on …
M Madhusudan | New Delhi As many as eight environmentalists on Monday put urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to scrap the three hydel power projects on the river Bhagirathi in Uttarakhand. But one of their opponents, a Padma Shri recipient, reiterated his resolve to return his award if the projects …
The first meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) on Monday failed to agree on the sharing of costs, required to launch a fresh mission to clean up Ganga by 2020, between central and state governments. In an impromptu decision, however, the Authority decided that the endangered Gangetic …
ALARMED over the sharp drop in the number of freshwater dolphins surviving in river systems across the country, the Manmohan Singh government, acting on a proposal made by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, on Monday declared dolphins as a national aquatic animal. The animal has been declared as a
Rs 15k Cr Planned For Clean-Up TWENTY TWO years and Rs 960 crore later, the government plans to spend another Rs 15,000 crore over the next 10 years to make the Ganga river pollution free. This decision was taken at the meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority, chaired …
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said that the newly-formed National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) has miserably failed to conserve the holy river by adopting a new approach. Mr Kumar, who attended the first meeting of the NGRBA chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said, "It's good that …
Prime Minister Mmanmohan Singh chaired the first meeting of recentlyset up National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) on Monday, where it was decided to declare dolphins as a national aquatic animal. Dolphins in the country are on the brink of extinction. The Centre also decided to spend additional Rs 1,5000 …
The CMs of UP and Uttarakhand through which the river flows may participate in Monday's meeting NEW DELHI The newly-formed Ganga River Basin Authority (GRBA) will meet for the first time on Monday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss ways in which the Ganga can be …
