Order of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 09/01/2025. The HC was informed that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has granted approval for establishing two new Facility-integrated ART Centres (Fi-ARTC) …
Report filed by the District Collector, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh regarding pollution and encroachment of Kolleru lake. A news item published in Enadu newspaper, January 23, 2024 said that illegal fish ponds were being dug in Kolleru lake and due to these illegal fish ponds, the Kolleru lake is being polluted. …
Joint committee report in the matter of Daram Govinda Rajan Vs State of Andhra Pradesh dated 17/11/2022. Daram Govinda Rajan resident of Chataparru, Eluru mandal, Eluru district, Andhra Pradesh filed an application before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) regarding massive illegal encroachments by construction of ponds leading to ecological destruction …
Rajahmundry: The National Board for Wildlife (NBW) has appointed a three-member committee to carry out a study and submit a report on the proposal to reduce the Kolleru sanctuary limits to plus three feet contour from the existing plus five feet contour limits. The environmentalists demand preparation of the report …
Hyderabad: The Kolleru wildlife sanctuary has got temporary reprieve from the National Board for Wildlife. The board has appointed a working group to study the reduction of lake contour from +5 feet to +3 feet and submit a report on the same in two months. kollKolleru lake, one of the …
The Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, has asked officials to take a middle path regarding the Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary boundary reduction issue by protecting the interest of locals as well as protecting the lake ecology. The State Board for Wildlife, which met on Tuesday, could not arrive at …
Rajahmundry, Feb. 1: Environmentalists called upon state government to initiate measures to conserve and protect wetlands in the state in the wake of World Wetlands Day to be observed on February 2. The greens are up against state government for failing to identify wetlands having rich-bio diversity at several places …
Ganapavaram, Sept. 22: Villagers living in and around Kolleru lake appealed to the members of the Central committee on Kolleru to recommend to the Centre to reduce the Kolleru sanctuary limits to third contour from the existing fifth contour to help them eke out livelihood. The panel members led by …
Kolleru, the largest freshwater lake along the east coast of India in Andhra Pradesh (AP) had been encroached, mainly for aquaculture, to such an extent that most of the lake area was highly compartmentalized by 3
May 6: The environment ministry has set up a seven-member panel to study a proposal to reduce the size of wetland areas around the Kolleru lake sanctuary, one of the largest water bodies for migratory birds in the country. The panel would have a scientific survey done to decide on …
Members of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly had written to environment minister Jairam Ramesh asking him to reduce the wetland areas around the Kolleru Lake Sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh. Mr Ramesh, whose own nomination for the Rajya Sabha was from Andhra Pradesh in August, personal ly visited Kolleru on Febru- ary …
Kolleru is one of Asia's largest fresh water lakes, spread over an area of 90,100 ha and located between the Godavari and Krishna river basins of Andhra Pradesh. This fragile wetland ecosystem is under severe threat due to human interventions in the lake and in the upstream catchment area as …
Hyderabad, June. 24: A promise made by the former Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, to local villagers is hampering the Kolleru lake restoration. He had assured them that the boundary will be reduced to the third contour and this has prompted them to oppose the moves by forest officials …
Kolleru lake would be developed at a cost of nearly Rs 860 crore over five years as the international non-governmental agency, Wetland International South Asia, has prepared proposals to that effect at the behest of the state government. Of the total cost proposed for development, a whopping Rs 500 crore …
The state government needs Rs 430 crore for the first phase in the acquisition of zerayati land spread over 9,237 acres around Kolleru lake in Krishna and East Godavari districts. The land is situated in fifth contour of Kolleru lake that is being restored after the Supreme Court's directions. A …
After the richer locals leased land/water from the poor cooperatives in the 1970s in Kolleru in Andhra Pradesh, the land has remained in the name of poor "beneficiaries", while the real fisherfolk work on meagre wages. Ironically, those legally entitled to the benefits have been reduced to wage earners on …
