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 …
CHANDIGARH: As currently, the scarcity of potable water remains one of the major problems in the city, mainly during the summer season, the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) reveals a shocking fact, the groundwater level of the City Beautiful has drastically gone down in the past one decade. This has …
CHANDIGARH: Days after water was found during digging along the predicted path of mythical Saraswati river in Yamunanagar district, preliminary geological investigation has termed the excavated portion as paleo-channel of a river. According to the investigations carried out by chairman of Kurukshetra University's geology department Professor A R Chaudhry, the …
LUCKNOW: The mysterious Shahi Baoli at Bara Imambara, which dried up about a decade ago, would be revived soon. The Archaeological Survey of India has engaged the hydrology department of IIT-Kanpur and Central Groundwater Board to explore possibilities of rainwater harvesting to restore water level in the baoli. "Experts from …
The National Green Tribunal today imposed a ban on all illegal slaughter houses in Uttar Pradesh and directed state authorities to ensure there is proper regulation of meat shops. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar said slaughter houses which do not have permission from UP Pollution Control …
Hospitals Too Pay For Absent, Neglected Device The National Green Tribunal on Monday imposed fines ranging from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 7.5 lakh on several hospitals, hotels and malls for not having functional rainwater harvesting structures in their buildings. It fined these establishments after going through a recent inspection …
JAIPUR: In the past one decade, the groundwater level in the city has depleted by 25 metres. All the 13 blocks in the city have been declared as dark zones by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB). In ten years (from 2004 to 2014), the groundwater table in Amber block …
There are a number of notifications and orders on rainwater harvesting but few of them have been implemented. Experts and residents also complain that there is no policy detailing how to pursue the projects and which agency is responsible for monitoring of them. The ministry of urban development and poverty …
In a Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) report “Success stories of rain water harvesting and artificial recharge of ground water“, which was released in March 2008, the harvesting structures on the AIIMS flyover featured as successful ones. Today, they are a picture of neglect. These recharge structures are covered with …
Residents of Pushp Vihar have to dig 80 metres to extract water from the ground. It's one of hundreds of localities in south and southwest Delhi where the groundwater situation is termed `critical'. What's alarming, however, is that in alarming, however, is that in many of these areas, the water …
More than half the total sewage discharged into the Ganga every day comes from six big cities with Kolkata, Kanpur and Varanasi leading the pack.They are three of the 118 townscities that fall in the vast basin of the national river. Other top cities are Patna, Allahabad and Moradabad. These …
NOIDA: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday ordered the formation of a seven-member committee to look into the violation of the green tribunal's ban on groundwater extraction in Noida and Greater Noida. In a hearing on the issue of groundwater extraction by builders at construction sites, the NGT issued …
The Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has proposed a 'one house per family' policy in order to prevent "unnecessary concretization" and water crisis in this country. The board made the suggestion in its report, submitted to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday, following a study that revealed the groundwater …
The city has turned blue and white and beautified boulevards make it look green on the surface. But the picture is not so rosy underneath. Steady depletion of groundwater is not only turning the city subsidence-prone, it is also exposing Kolkata to earthquake risks and dealing a body blow to …
With the district already in the ‘dark zone’ in matter of water table and exploitation of water resources, the authorities have set up a team to check illegal digging of tubewells. The team has been directed to ensure strict action against violations of laid norms. The team, comprising Joint Commissioners …
Both states asked to prepare plan to contain contamination Residents of 12 districts of Punjab and Haryana are consuming poisonous water as the groundwater there has been detected with arsenic levels beyond the permissible limit, the Union Ministry of Water Resources has said. The ministry has directed the two states …
Concerned over the “unusually” high water table in a DDA colony that is allegedly posing threat to buildings, the Delhi High Court has directed authorities to locate the reason. A bench of Justices B.D. Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva issued the direction to the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and Central Ground …
Hyderabad: Though the Central Groundwater Board has identified Hyderabad as one of the top 64 places where groundwater is over exploited, the state government has not yet taken any constructive action. With temperatures rising and the groundwater table falling, illegal drilling of borewells is going unchecked in different parts of …
More than twothird of the sewage generated by 118 towns located in the Ganga basin gets discharged into the river untreated, which makes Ganga rejuvenation an all the more arduous task. A recent study by experts from different government agencies has concluded that the towns, spread across five states, generate …
More than two-thirds of the sewage generated in 118 towns, located along the Ganga river basin is discharged into the river untreated, says a report prepared by a team of experts. The towns collectively generate over 3,636 million litres per day (MLD) of sewage while the treatment capacity of the …
Hearing the case for release of tubewell power connections to Punjab farmers, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought a report from the Central Ground Water Board about the underground water situation in the state. The Punjab government, represented by the advocate general, and farmers, represented by Bhartiya Kisan Union …
