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 …
VARANASI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon the Indian Institutes of Technology to focus on solar energy sectors for innovations in the direction of no-cost solar-powered kitchens by keeping in mind that India is the biggest market of 25 crore families. “India and France are working together to utilize solar …
A Group of Secretaries (GoS) from key Ministries comprising of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Urban Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation, Rural Development, Tourism, and Shipping had worked together during 2014-15 to develop a comprehensive action plan for Ganga Rejuvenation. One High Level …
NEW DELHI: The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) - key central body which takes decision on the government’s ambitious Ganga rejuvenation programme - has approved a number of projects worth nearly Rs 4,000 crore for various cities\towns of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal. The projects, approved in the …
‘How many drains join the river from Kanpur to Uttar Pradesh border’ The National Green Tribunal has sought a compliance report on the steps taken by the Centre, U.P. and Uttarakhand governments to clean river Ganga in the stretch between Gomukh and Unnao. A Bench, headed by Justice Jawad Rahim, …
With the Union Budget-2018 according priority to agriculture and rural development, education, health and infrastructure, there was much benefit derived by the environment sector, including the emphasis on air pollution, provision of electricity to all and cleaning of River Ganga. With air pollution in the Delhi-NCR region a cause of …
This report provides comprehensive information about the glacial lakes of five major river basins of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) — Amu Darya, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Irrawaddy, including Mansarovar Interior Basin — representing the year 2005, which helps to fill the data gap of glacial lakes information in the …
This adversely affected aquatic life, river ecology: petitioner The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday issued notice to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Ministry of Environment and Forest among other authorities on a plea seeking an adequate flow of water in the Ganga A bench headed by …
DEHRADUN: Over 400 students from 37 different schools took part in an environmental pledge to save the planet and to improve water, sanitation and hygiene for every child at the Parmarth Niketan ashram in Rishikesh on Saturday. The students aged 13 to 14 years, had come to Uttarakhand to take …
Worldwide glacier retreat and associated future runoff changes raise major concerns over the sustainability of global water resources, but global-scale assessments of glacier decline and the resulting hydrological consequences are scarce. Here we compute global glacier runoff changes for 56 large-scale glacierized drainage basins to 2100 and analyse the glacial …
17 of them have high levels of bacteria found mainly in human faeces, it says A dip in the Ganges is, generally speaking, synonymous with the idea of purification. But that shall no longer be so in Bengal, where the river is so polluted that it is now officially unfit …
A dip in the Ganges is, generally speaking, synonymous with the idea of purification. But that shall no longer be so in Bengal, where the river is so polluted that it is now officially unfit for bathing. According to the latest State of Environment Report, published by the West Bengal …
Courting controversies with orders on regulating Hindu pilgrimage to sparing none including Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living for damaging the Yamuna floodplains, the National Green Tribunal in 2017 also castigated the NDA government for failing to rejuvenate the holy Ganga. Courting controversies with orders on regulating Hindu pilgrimage …
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has indicted the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), a nodal central agency to implement the government's flagship 'Namami Gange' programme, for delay in executing the Ganga cleaning projects, non-utilisation of fund meant for river cleaning and lapses in monitoring. In its report on …
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has indicted the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), a nodal central agency to implement the government's flagship 'Namami Gange' programme, for delay in executing the Ganga cleaning projects, non-utilisation of fund meant for river cleaning and lapses in monitoring. In its report on …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajiv Savara Vs. Darrameks Hotels and Developers Pvt. Ltd. & Others dated 18/12/2017 regarding construction of a hotel on Ganga floodplains, Uttarakhand. Counsel appearing for the State of Uttarakhand submits that they have already taken effective steps in furtherance to …
HARIDWAR: Following complaint of illegal mining in the Ganga in Haridwar from Matri Sadan, the Union ministry of environment and forest resources (MoEF) has sent a team to assess the impact of mining activity in river’s ecosystem. The team on Tuesday visited two places — Bhogpur and Bishanpur villages — …
Reason behind a broad spectrum of antibiotics becoming ineffective, finds govt.-commissioned study Mass-bathing in the Ganga during pilgrimages may be contributing to anti-microbial resistance (AMR), says a government-commissioned report on the threat from AMR. Such resistance —previously acknowledged to be widespread in India — is said to be the reason …
Centre, U.P., Uttarakhand to respond The National Green Tribunal has directed the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh and the Uttarakhand governments to file affidavits stating what steps they have taken to comply with its directions to clean the Ganga in the stretch between Gomukh and Unnao. The green panel, in …
The Centre has approved setting up a turtle sanctuary in Allahabad and a river bio-diversity park at Sangam in the city. The project, approved by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) under its 'Namami Gange' (Ganga rejuvenation) programme last week, includes a turtle rearing centre (permanent nursery at Triveni …
This flood risk assessment and forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basins summarizes the technical findings, includes highlights of the work, and links to the full technical reports and new interactive online resources. The report provides, for the first time, a numbers-based view of the impacts of floods of different severities …
