Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
It would take nearly 91 years for the Chhattisgarh water resources department to achieve the ambitious target of irrigating 75 per cent of the gross sown area (GSA) given the pace with which it had been implementing the plan, pointed the report of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. …
Visakhapatnam: The ministry of water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation (MoWR) has said that the lifeline of Andhra Pradesh, prestigious Polavaram irrigation project is scheduled to be completed by 2018. In a written reply to queries raised by Vizag MP K. Haribabu and Ongole MP Y.V. Subba Reddy, Union …
Tensions are rising over a large proposed dam that would flood six rural villages—and their microhydro systems—to provide power and water to cities. The villages draw on the nearby Papar River's current to generate enough power to run lights, refrigerators, and phone-chargers for up to 50 households. The systems, dubbed …
Residents of the Pancheshwar valley have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to visit the area to ascertain whether the construction of a mega dam on the Kali river at Pancheshwar in Champawat along the Nepal border would benefit locals. India and Nepal have agreed to …
Cairo — Within two weeks, a tripartite meeting by Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia will be held in Khartoum to resume negotiations on the impact of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River's water provision on the two downstream countries. The decision was taken at a meeting of 12 …
when you think of an irrigation project? Water? Well, that doesn’t seem to be the case with the Union Union Ministry for Forests, Environment & Climate Change (MoEF). How else would it have cleared the the Rs 4,845 crore, 23.66 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) Krishna Marathwada Lift Irrigation Scheme …
PMKSY aims at providing irrigation facilities to every village The government has approved Rs 50,000 crore for the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY) for the next five years. The scheme aims at providing irrigation facilities to every village by converging the ongoing schemes being implemented by key ministries such …
The groundwork for the construction of a 72 megawatt hydroelectric dam over the Menchum River in the North West Region is taking shape with officials at the Ministry of Water Resources and Energy saying the recent publication by the Ministry of Public Contracts of the bid on June 26, 2015, …
As countries build more hydropower projects, new research warns that massive dams pose an extinction threat to mammals, birds and tortoises—at least in the Amazon. Brazil’s Balbina Dam has turned what was once undisturbed forest into an artificial archipelago of 3,546 islands where many vertebrates have disappeared, according to a …
Mega hydropower projects in tropical forests pose a major emergent threat to terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity worldwide. Despite the unprecedented number of existing, under-construction and planned hydroelectric dams in lowland tropical forests, long-term effects on biodiversity have yet to be evaluated. We examine how medium and large-bodied assemblages of terrestrial …
MUMBAI: The Ministry of environment and forest led by senior BJP leader Prakash Jawdekar on Friday approved a Rs 4845 crore Krishna-Marathwada irrigation project that will irrigate nearly one lakh hectares land in the drought and suicide prone Marathwada region. "The proposal was pending with the environment and forest ministry …
The Brazilian government has violated its own constitution and international law by developing hydroelectric power plants in the Amazon, according to an indigenous leader due to address the 29th United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday afternoon. Ademir Kaba Munduruku will argue that the Brazilian government failed to …
The High Court on Monday allowed the government to go ahead with its process of paying compensation to farmers displaced by the right bank canal of the Polavaram project in West Godavari and Krishna districts. A division bench, comprising Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice A Shankar Narayana, heard a …
HYDERABAD: The proposed Pattiseema lift irrigation scheme may solve the irrigation needs of farmers in the Krishna delta, but it is likely to throw up new environment and ecological issues affecting agricultural production in thousands of acres en route, damaging the delicate biodiversity and inducing climatological changes in the uplands …
BHOJPUR: A committee of locals here has held a demonstration, putting forth a six-point demand including immediate compensation for the damage caused by the under-construction Eastern Hydropower Project in Pikhuwa Khola, Bhojpur. The locals protested after the project, under construction for over six years affecting fertility of villagers’ arable lands, …
The Government is focusing on developing additional resources of energy to overcome energy shortage in the country. For this purpose, it will invest 248 billion rupees on different power projects during the next financial year. According to Radio Pakistan quoting official sources that fifty-two billion rupees have been allocated for …
A surprise five-minute rain shower falls like a taunt over the scorched riverbed of the Ranchería river: fat raindrops spatter in the dust but evaporate almost immediately. Nearby, a young girl and boy scoop out a bowlful of cloudy groundwater from a makeshift well to wash a few scraps of …
Hyderabad: The farmers whose lands are likely to be acquired for the Polavaram project have approached the Hyderabad High Court challenging the AP government notification issued under Section 11 (1) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The AP government issued …
Federal prosecutors say Norte Energia, the consortium building the $11bn dam, has violated agreed-to items that are endangering locals’ means of survival Construction of a massive hydroelectric dam is endangering the livelihoods of at least 2,000 families in Brazil’s Amazon jungle state of Para, according to federal prosecutors who recommend …
Dharamsala, June 16: Diversion of budget meant for flood control and irrigation schemes has hit the micro irrigation projects in the state hard. About 109 micro hydel projects approved by the Union government have been shelved for want of funds. As per the documents available with The Tribune, 109 micro …
