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 …
Inauguration of salt water check dam at Aranda Aggadakali in Sasihithlu and across Nandini river at Chelyaru and foundation stone laying ceremony for a salt water check dam at Uppudakatte in Chelyaru will be held on February 17 at 4.30 at Salt water check dam in Chelyaru. The programme will …
by Manshi Asher THE Renuka dam project, to be set up by the Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation limited in Sirmaur district, has been in the news for more than a decade. The project has been a pipe dream, literally and figuratively, for the government of Himachal Pradesh, which hopes to …
New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu Government on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it was not agreeable to the suggestion for constitution of an expert committee to examine the report of the IIT-Delhi on the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam relied on by the Kerala government to assert that the …
JEYPORE: Shortage of water has forced the farmers, dependent on Upper Kolab Project (UKP) for irrigating their fields, to either stop or go slow with the harvesting process. The farmers here are bearing the brunt of non-coordination between the officials of irrigation and power generation department of UKP. Despite being …
Bhopal, Feb 1: The Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) has decided to lower the Ataria dam height by 4 meter from its earlier proposed 407 m. height . This decision would be highly welcomed by hundreds of farmers of Sehora Tehsil of Jabalpur district, whose 3587 hectare agriculture land was …
Under the Central Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP), the State government is targeting to cover an area of 1,14,552 hectares through Minor Irrigation schemes by the year 2010. The Centre has sanctioned around Rs 500 crore to the State government for completing different irrigation schemes. Minister of Irrigation, Fishery and …
This publication provides data for 5100 large dams in India. It is based on information compiled till January 2009 and includes data on 4710 completed large dams and another 390 under construction. With the ever increasing population and the consequent increasing demand for water for various uses, it has become …
If you are talking about the Himalayas, then Mountains of Concrete is not a very apt title for a report in many ways. In fact, when a meeting to launch this report in Delhi was announced, some officials of the water resources establishment were angry. They felt this was an …
The Tashiding HEP located in West Sikkim envisages the utilization of the flow of Rathong Chhu a tributary of Rangit River for the generation of electric power. Based on the findings of the Environmental Impact Assessment study, various Environmental Management Plans viz. Catchment Area Treatment, Biodiversity Conservation & Management, Public …
An excuse to privatize irrigation project STARTED in 1984, the yet to be completed Nira Deoghar irrigation project in Maharashtra has run into rough weather. A recent judgement by the three-member water regulatory authority has put on hold the privatization of the project in Bhor taluka, Pune district. Aimed at …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Giving a new impetus to development projects in Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre has decided to revive and put back on rails the Rs.7436-crore 1200-MW Sawalkot hydro-power project over the Chenab in the Kashmir Valley. The project was shelved by the previous Congress-PDP coalition. The project …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Giving a new impetus to development projects in Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre has decided to revive and put back on rails the Rs.7436-crore 1200-MW Sawalkot hydro-power project over the Chenab in the Kashmir Valley. The project was shelved by the previous Congress-PDP coalition. The project …
BHUBANESWAR: The main canals of the Subarnarekha multi-purpose irrigation project on both sides of Orissa and Jharkhand nearing completion, the State Government is hopeful of receiving water for irrigation from the project by the end of this year. After a three-day visit to various project sites of the inter-state irrigation …
In a significant move, the Centre had said that every hydroelectric project will donate one per cent of power towards the local area development fund and 100 units to each family affected by it. Laying the foundation stone for a new hydropower engineering institute at Tehri, Union power minister Sushil …
Irrigation expert Arekallu Chandrashekhar has stated that the Bhadra Upper Canal Project is against nature. Addressing an awareness meeting held at Kallushettyhalli here, he said though the K C Reddy Report notes that the canal flows in about 50 km stretch of Tarikere taluk but yet it does no benefit …
SP Sharma Tribune News Service Bathinda, January 19 Wheat fields and orchards at many places in the Malwa belt were inundated today as the canals breached due to increased water level. Crop in 250 acres were destroyed in Mehma Sarja and Kot Fatta areas. The canal breached in Chief Minister …
OUR CORRESPONDENT Officials at a review meeting. Pix: Srinivas Jamshedpur, Jan. 15: The cost of the ambitious Subernarekha Multipurpose Project (SMP) has swelled to Rs 5,500 crore. The earlier estimate, drawn last year, had amounted to Rs 5,200 crore. After a review meeting at Nirmal Guest House, officials blamed the …
