Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
New Delhi: The water resources ministry is toying with the idea of setting up an integrated water disputes tribunal that will be the one-stop forum for all inter-state water wars. This will not only save the ministry the time and effort of setting up separate tribunals as and when water …
Speedy completion of Pulichintala project on Krishna river, diversion of Godavari water from Polavaram project to Prakasam barrage and construction of check dams along the Krishna river are some suggestions made by irrigation experts, advocates and Delta Parirakshana Samiti leaders to mitigate the irrigation water problem to be faced by …
Watershed response to produce runoff by a rainfall event depends upon the watershed characteristic and each watershed has its exclusive characteristics. However, most of the watersheds lacks in the facility of recording runoff, in such a case, morphometric parameters of a watershed are valuable information to evaluate watershed capacity to …
BERHAMPUR: Even as the Supreme Court is seized of the controversial Polavaram issue, experts have challenged the claims made by Andhra Pradesh and said it would lead to a Narmada-type situation in Orissa. Polavaram was given the National Project status despite Orissa's demand for a relook at the project which …
THE environment ministry has sought an explanation from the Andhra Pradesh government for beginning work on the on the Polavaram irrigation project without complete environmental clearance. The ministry has asked Andhra why a public hearing on the project has not been held despite repeated reminders stretching over a year-and-a-half. The …
Will Polavaram be another ecocide zone? Not if we apply the Vedanta logic to it. The Polavaram dam across the river Godavari has been a dream project for several governments in Andhra Pradesh. Most of them had to let it stay at that
Sep. 9: Heavy rains and floods have damaged 7,842 km of roads in the last three months, according to a state government estimate. The loss incurred by the government due to this is Rs 2,280 crore. It has decided to start repair work on a war-footing basis. The minister for …
Continuing its protest over the Rs 10,000-crore Polavaram power project on the Godavari river in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, the Orissa government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court opposing the Centre
Bhubaneswar: Taking a dig at the unilateral decision of the Centre to give go-ahead signal to the contentious Polavarm project in Andhra Pradesh, BJD Rajya Sabha MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra on Thursday said that a protest meeting will be held in Malkangiri district soon. Briefing newsmen here, Mohapatra, while terming …
The Orissa government will move the Supreme Court against the clearance granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to the Rs 10,000-crore Polavaram irrigation project on the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh. Naveen Patnaik
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to move the Supreme Court against the clearance granted by the Union Environment and Forest Ministry to the multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project on the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh. A petition will be filed in the Supreme Court in a day or two seeking scrapping …
Bhubaneswar: Terming UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's nod to give national status to Congress-led Andhra Pradesh Government as betrayal to Odisha, the Biju Yuva Janata Dal on Sunday threatened that it would resort to statewide protests in coming days. In a release, BYJD state coordinator Sanjay Das Burma said that at …
Allotment of alternative bauxite mines to Vedanta being examined. Naveen PatnaikThe Orissa government has said it will continue to oppose the proposed Polavaram power plant on the Godavari, even as the chairperson of the ruling UPA at the Centre, Sonia Gandhi, has assured the Andhra Pradesh government that national status …
The Orissa Chief Minister, Mr Naveen Patnaik, on Monday took up the controversial Polavaram issue with the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and sought his intervention to ensure that not a single village in Orissa was inundated.Constructed by the Andhra Pradesh government over the Godavari river, the multi-purpose Polavaram dam …
TELUGU Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu reignited the Godavari river water sharing controversy when he was arrested last month on his way to the Babhali barrage in Maharashtra’s Nanded district. Andhra Pradesh has long held that the barrage, located 7 km into its border with Maharashtra, will deprive Telangana of …
As many as 10 people have died following floods in the Godavari in the past three days even as water level in the river continued to rise alarmingly, severely affecting normal life in nine districts, particularly Khammam and East Godavari districts, officials said on Sunday.Eight deaths were reported in Warangal …
A discussion of the resistance of the local tribal population against the construction of the Polavaram dam on the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh, the main feature of which is the involvement of various people
Water sharing disputes between states are growing, the latest in the news being the conflict between Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh over the Babhli barrage. It puts the spotlight on underlying issues like the lack of an efficient mediating mechanism for conflict resolution both within government and the civil society at …
New Delhi: Going purely on the assurances of Andhra Pradesh government, the Union environment and forests ministry has cleared the longpending case of diverting 3,831 hectares of forest land for Rs 8,000-crore Polavaram project on Godavari river in AP meant to provide irrigation water to four districts. The clearance came …
Whenever we hear of new water conflicts between states we groan in trepidation. We feel that such rows will be shrill, emotional, long-winding and complicated
