Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kirtikumar Sadashiv Bhatt Vs Narmada Water Resource & Others dated 02/12/2024. The matter relates to the discharge of untreated water into the waterbody in Narmada and encroachment. Affidavit dated November 28, 2024 has been filed by …
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has formed an experts group to examine the feasibility of laying down of underground pipeline for providing waters to irrigate 18 lakh hectares (ha) in the Narmada command area. The idea of pipelines in lieu of field channels was first floated by former chairman of the …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: Gujarat government is learnt to have reached the drastic decision to use satellite imagery to identify agricultural farms which get water from the Narmada canal but do no pay for it. The decision has been reached against the backdrop of the fact that less than …
A public awareness campaign would be initiated to clean the Narmada river. Ensuring proper arrangements for the Parikrama by the common people is also on the card. Speaking in Khargone district, secretary of Narmada Samgra Nyas and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Madhav Dave said that Hariyali Chunree Yojana would be …
New Delhi: The SC on Friday issued notice to Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar but refused to stay a Madhya Pradesh HC order that had stalled all work on the canal projects of Omkareswar and Indira Sagar dams till the state completed relief and rehabilitation measures on equal footing …
The paper reviews contentious issues related to water governance in the Narmada river basin like the riparian rights of States over apportionment of the use of the waters for large dam-centered canal irrigation and hydro-electric power development and the later disputes around the appropriateness of this model of development given …
Water governance in the Narmada river basin has been in the eye of a controversial storm from the time of independence. While initially the dispute had been between the riparian states over the apportionment of the use of the waters of the river for large dam centered canal irrigation and …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: Facing sharp criticism from technocrats and after strong queries from the Centre, the Gujarat government has been forced to scale down the proposal to lay down underground pipelines to irrigate 18.24 lakh hectares (ha) area with Narmada waters. The proposal was meant to skirt the …
Vadodara: Social activists involved with Narmada Bachao Aandolan (NBA) will make their report on the plight of Narmada oustees public within a month. Activists, including Medha Patkar, who are fighting for the cause of Narmada project-affected people (PAP), conducted their first public hearing on Friday at Parveta village near Naswadi. …
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has decided to ask Narmada Control Authority (NCA) to give clearance for constructing piers on Narmada dam, stationary at 121.92 metres for two years. Well-placed Sachivalaya sources said the state government will put forward demand at the rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R;) sub-group meeting of NCA on …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Gandhinagar: The canal work by Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited (SSNNL) to bring Narmada water to parched districts is progressing at a very slow pace. In one year the government has completed canal work of just 1,758 km. This was stated in a reply to RTI …
Bhopal: The rise in the water level of the Narmada has resulted in the submergence of property in some villages of Badwani district in Madhya Pradesh. According to reports from activists from the region, Kharya Bhadal village in Badwani Tehsil and Bhitada village in Alirajpur have seen some farms and …
Heavy rain today caused traffic jams and water logging in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar and Narsinghpur districts where rivers were in spate. Rain water entered several low-lying areas in Sagar and Narsinghpur towns. Affected people were shifted to schools and choultries. A large number of 'kutcha' houses reportedly collapsed in the …
Himanshu Kaushik, TNN 20 July 2009, 03:35am IST GANDHINAGAR: The wait for Narmada water has got longer for thousands of villages in Gujarat with the construction of branch, sub-branch and distribution canals further being delayed. Replying to a question asked by Manavadar MLA Jawahar Chavda and Porbandar MLA Arjun Modhvadia …
GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government on Tuesday admitted in the state Assembly that the Narmada project will take five more years to complete as against the current plan to finish it by the golden jubilee celebrations in 2010. Concluding a debate on Narmada and water resources department, water supply and water …
75% of the canal network is yet to be built. The Sardar Sarovar Narmada project, often described as the lifeline of Gujarat, has started proving to be a mirage than reality to the farmers of the state who have been eagerly waiting for water from the project for decades. The …
