Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
SAVE THE Aravallis: a slogan that like so many others stirs little response until the cost of ignoring it hits home: no electricity, no water, no construction material and, worst of all, no rain and the daytime temperature perpetually above 50 degrees Celsius. The Aravallis are the oldest mountain range …
Nodal agency must for monitoring: Experts In order to avoid discrepancy in ground water-related data from different sources in a state, there should be one nodal agency to work in ground water sector. Also, there should be one Central agency to oversee the state agency. This was one of the …
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VELLORE: All encroachments on waterbodies in Vellore district will be removed, C. Rajendran, Collector, said here on Wednesday. He was inaugurating a two-day Water Management Training organised by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), South Eastern Coastal Region, Chennai, and the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA), Ministry of Water Resources, …
With the demand of water growing by each passing day, water management is gaining importance. The management of water resources should be formulated in spirit and not on paper, as it was a critical issue for long term sustainability of the economy. This was stated by Ravindra Kumar of State …
Indore under water emergency THE Malwa region of western Madhya Pradesh is facing acute water shortage. Most reservoirs in the region dried up as early as December following a scant monsoon. While Ujjain residents are getting water supply for an hour in four days, Indore has declared water emergency from …
Tanushree Roy Chowdhury Posted: Jan 28, 2009 at 0011 hrs IST New Delhi: A Supreme Court ban on all mining and construction activities in the Aravalli areas of the Gurgaon and Faridabad districts has failed to curb an alarming rate of groundwater depletion in these areas, resulting from the mining …
The recent guidelines for the withdrawal of ground water especially by the industries and infrastructure units focus on a specific part of ground water management viz. ensuring sustainability of ground water both in terms of quantity & quality and on land based management of ground water resource. The prime objective …
NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan on Thursday demanded that the Lieutenant-Governor cancel the order banning withdrawal of groundwater and said ideally the decision on this issue should have been taken after the formation of the new Government in Delhi. Stating that this order would lead to both mental …
CHENNAI: The State government has decided that no more approval of applications for installation of artificial recharge structures be given unless 50 per cent of the cases sanctioned earlier set up the facility, S. Audiseshiah, Principal Secretary (Public Works), said on Monday. So far the high-power committee, headed by the …
BHUBANESWAR: In its continued efforts to increase the irrigation potential, the State Government has decided to install 1,725 new lift irrigation (LI) points under Biju Krushak Yojana (BKY) in the current and next financial years. The proposal was approved by the State-level scrutiny committee on BKY chaired by Chief Secretary …
By Rashme Sehgal New Delhi, Oct. 7: Delhi Lt. Gov. Tejendra Khanna, chairman, Yamuna River Development Authority, has finally announced a moratorium on future construction along the flood plain of the Yamuna. Mr Khanna announced this decision during the course of a meeting with water activists who are part of …
Yamuna in spate, people leave homes four drown in Yamuna in separate incidents2010 Games: govt goes green, will procure 10 ...Residents protest police apathy, SSP suspends... New Delhi, September 4 The Yamuna could have been tamed this monsoon, experts say, if the Centre and the Delhi government had carefully gone …
Considering the complexity of the problem and in order to compare the estimates, we have adopted a similar methodology for the estimation of water utilization as that of the NCA
The research account by Garg and Hassan on water scarcity in India is based on the tables and figures of the Central Water Commission (CWC), Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and National Commission on Agriculture (NCA) which were published during 1976
