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 …
All City areas would come under BMC piped water supply network. As the Union Urban Development Ministry on Wednesday cleared Rs 415.45 crore Water Supply Distribution Network Project for Bhopal under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). In a meeting at New Delhi, the Central Sanction and Monitoring …
1. STICKING TO A CAUSE Chipko Movement, 1973 The 1980s saw the debate on environment move from just deforestation to the larger issues of depletion of natural resources
For decades, the Sardar Sarovar Dam on India's Narmada River has been a powerful symbol of what is going wrong with large dam projects. A new independent review shows that the project's benefits have not been realized, while the social, environmental and financial costs are even more serious than expected.
Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Sanand: Sukhdevsinh Vaghela, a resident of Asha society in Sanand, was happy when Nano project was announced. For, he has his fingers crossed that Nano will not just drive in fresh investments into Sanand but fresh Narmada water supplies as well. This is because Vaghela, an …
Rivers, known as mother rivers in many local to regional languages, dialects and cultural idioms, are known as bedrocks of civilisation. River valley populations in the hilly gorges are thus civilisations within our larger civilisation. Land, water, the forests, aquatic and mineral wealth of these river valleys are rarely valued. …
Lack of sufficient rain this year is bound to create a water crisis in Bhopal . The Government is bringing a legislation to form a Water Regulatory Commission. The Municipal Corporation has been leying Narmada cess from the inhabitants. For many decades one has been hearing that Narmada water will …
GANDHINAGAR: The powerful pro-Narmada dam lobby in Gujarat has decided to field two international experts to counter the arguments advanced in the latest treatise published by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) study, 'Performance and Development Effectiveness of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP),' which seeks to doubt the project's potential …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The Narmada Control Authority (NCA) has declined to give permission to the Gujarat government to install piers and gates in the Narmada dam, which would take the height of the dam to the final 138.68 meters from 121.92 meters. The NCA in its meeting, chaired by …
The Narmada Control Authority (NCA) has been setup under the final orders and decision of the Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal (NWDT) as a machinery for implementation of its directions and decision. The authority started functioning from 20th December, 1980. The authority is a body corporate with representatives of the four …
The demonstration was organised by the Narmada Bachao Andolan SEEKING REHABILITATION: Oustees of the Indira Sagar, Omkareshwar, Maheshwar, Upper Beda, Maan and Bargi dams in the Narmada Valley taking out a march in Bhopal on Thursday. BHOPAL: Thousands of Narmada oustees braved heavy rains on Thursday to join a protest …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Viramgam: Residents of Kajipura village of Viramgam taluka are a scared lot since the last 10 days. Ever since they came to know how the swirling waters of Narmada flooded Sujatpura village near Kadi on June 12 due to a breach in the main canal, they …
Missile man and former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, in the role of an environmentalist, has called upon Delhites to be involved in cleaning of the city's lifeline, Yamuna river. The ex-president is a man of his own stature and thinks very deeply. These days Dr Kalam is busy in …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar on Saturday said here that the Gujarat government should accept responsibility for the breach
The irrigation potential of 1.8 lakh hectare created by Narmada Valley projects during last five years has capacity to change the agriculture economy of the state if maximum of the created potential could be utilized. Keeping this in view the NVDA has zeroing in to take 'Canal water to the …
Even as the Narmada Control Authority is looking at rehabilitation claims of States affected by the Narmada dam in Gujarat, the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People has said that there was no case for raising the height of the Sardar Sarovar Project and that it should be …
Water has become a mirage for the Narmada Project oustees rehabilitated here from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, who agreed to give up their irrigated farms back home to ensure that the Sardar Sarovar Dam project became the lifeline of the waterstarved people of Gujarat. Just 25 kilometres from Vadodara, a …
The Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that betterment of the poor is the top priority of the state government. He launched Annapurna Yojana and laid the foundation of a Rs. 108 crore Narmada water project at Khandwa today. The Minister for Tribal Welfare and Forests Kunwar Vijay …
A committee of concerning officials has been formed for the Parikrama path of Narmada Valley and facilities for the pilgrims. This committee would prepare action plan for construction of Parikrama Path. Decisions were taken for conservation of rivers at this meeting chaired by Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan. It may …
A committee has been constituted comprising officers of concerning departments for development of Parikrama Path of Narmada river and for providing facilities to the pilgrims undertaking the Parikrama. Divisional Forest Officer Shri Pankaj Shrivastava would be the member-secretary of the committee. It would chalk out an action plan for construction …
