Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Rajasthan MP from Kota Om Birla has demanded the interlinking of rivers in eastern Rajasthan as one of the measures to deal with the severe water crisis in the desert state. Birla, while participating in the debate over drought in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, suggested the interlinking of rivers …
The Rs 10,000-crore project requires diversion of 5,258 hectares of forest land, including 4,141 hectares of Panna Tiger Reserve. The standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) Tuesday decided to clear Phase-I of the Ken-Betwa river linking project even though the expert committee constituted by the board is …
The Damanganga-Pinjal link project entails diversion of surplus water of Damanganga basin to Pinjal reservoir in Vaitarna. Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said Tuesday the Damanganga-Pinjal interstate river link project would help resolve the drinking water crisis of Mumbai till 2060. “It is unfortunate that the project got embroiled …
BHOPAL: A six-member National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) panel will this week recommend the way forward for the proposed interlinking of Ken and Betwa rivers in Madhya Pradesh, a project wildlife experts claim will prove detrimental to the Panna Tiger Reserve. The interlinking project, India's first and worth Rs 17,000 …
Tourism potential lies untapped; migration of youth continues When the then Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi laid the foundation stone for Nanguneri Special Economic Zone on February 11, 2001, in the presence of the then Union Minister Murasoli Maran, it was expected that the hefty industrial investments to be made in …
Acknowledging that several States were badly hit by drought, the Central Government on Wednesday said that interlinking rivers was the only solution to the problem. “Interlinking of rivers is very important. We are working on it as this would solve the problem,” Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga …
Over-exploitation of ground water has depleted its level in the state and efforts are on to conserve the resource, Jharkhand Assembly was informed on Thursday. Replying to a short notice query of BJP MLA Radhakrishna Kishore on depletion of water level, State Water Resources Minister Chandraprakash Choudhary said the ground …
Expert committee asks why opposition of MP wildlife officers was overruled The Centre's wait for Ken-Betwa river linking project's environment clearance (EC) has got longer as the Union environment ministry's expert committee has questioned the Madhya Pradesh government's decision to overrule its own senior wildlife officers who opposed state wildlife …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Inter-Linking of Rivers, 25/02/2016. This Ministry has formulated a National Perspective Plan (NPP) for Water Resources Development envisaging inter-basin transfer of water from surplus basins to deficit basins/ areas. Based on surveys, investigations and detailed studies, National Water Development Agency (NWDA) has prepared pre-feasibility …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on New Underground Water Resources, 25/02/2016. During XII Plan period Central Ground Water Board is implementing the Central Sector Scheme ‘Ground Water Management & Regulation’ in which aquifer mapping is a component. The aim of the Aquifer Mapping is to delineate aquifer disposition on a …
NEW DELHI: Differences over water sharing between two BJP-ruled states Gujarat and Maharashtra continue to block the Centre's ambitious plan to go ahead with its two river-linking projects — Damanganga-Pinjal and ParTapi-Narmada. Though the detailed project reports (DPRs) of these river links had been submitted to the Centre in August …
According to officials of the water resources ministry all three clearances are before different expert appraisal panels of the union environment ministry, under process. The Ken-Betwa river linking project, monitored closely by the Prime Minister's Office, is likely to take off only by the end of this year said top …
Had it been implemented the upper Palar would have received good water flow in the recent floods The rains might have been bountiful for farmers this year, but many, especially those in the western part of the district, are not happy. They say delay in implementing the Thenpennai (Ponnaiyar) - …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Inter-Linking of Rivers, 30/11/2015. This Ministry has formulated a National Perspective Plan (NPP) for Water Resources Development envisaging inter-basin transfer of water from surplus basins to deficit basins/ areas. Based on surveys, investigations and detailed studies, National Water Development Agency (NWDA) has prepared pre-feasibility …
The project will allow a private player to lift water from an intake well on the Narmada-Kshipra river link nearby The Madhya Pradesh government is planning to restructure India's first water supply project dedicated to industrial units at Dewas. The project will allow a private player to lift water from …
Veteran conservationist and former director of Project Tiger Hemendra Singh Panwar has critiqued the ambitious Ken-Betwa river linking project for the impacts it will have on tigers and Ken River's biodiversity in a strong letter written to the environment ministry. Hitting out at the project's environment impact assessment (EIA) report …
The Centre's ambitious Rs 9,393 crore Ken-Betwa river interlinking project will impact "very significantly" the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, a green panel has said while suggesting that the issue needs to be studied more carefully before granting final green signal. The Environment Ministry gives green nod to 'A' …
Farmers of Nellore district stand to gain the most After the interlinking of the Godavari and Krishna rivers, the government seems to have set its sights on the integration of the Krishna and Penna river systems to help a vast majority of farmers in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh and …
In a major embarrassment to the Telugu Desam Party government in Andhra Pradesh, the ambitious river inter-linking project has run into rough weather just days after its launch with a newly-constructed Polavaram Right Canal suffering a breach. An aqueduct, constructed on Tammileru river stream near Janampet village in West Godavari …
If the board okays the project, it would go for National Wildlife Board for further clearance Despite receiving a temporary setback from the state wildlife advisory board on the linking of the Ken river in Madhya Pradesh and Betwa river in Uttar Pradesh last month, the Madhya Pradesh government is …
