Order of National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kamlesh Roj Vs State of Rajasthan & Others dated 21/01/2025. The issue raised in the application are protection of historical Hingonia Dam from the encroachment from the local residence violating the environmental norms and damaging the area …
Uttarakhand has 76 dams in the ecologically fragile regions. The Chopra Committee, which studied the impact of receding glaciers on hydroelectric power projects (HEPs), has in its report objected to the construction of HEPs in regions between 2,200 to 2,500 metres above the sea level (paraglacial regions). Uttarakhand has 76 …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday directed the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to only appoint people who are specialized in environmental issues in the expert appraisal committee (EAC). The EAC looks into large projects that are likely to have an environmental footprint on whose assessment clearances are …
The government will not allow any move to interlink Pampa, Achenkovil rivers in the state with Tamil Nadu's Vaipar river, chief minister Oommen Chandy said in the assembly on Thursday. “The state assembly had, in August 2003, passed a unanimous resolution against this and the matter is now before the …
Former Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s elevation as the Prime Minister has come as a boon for his home State as after an important permission to put sluice gates on Narmada Dam in June, the Modi Government gave clearances to two more projects — the cold storage for perishable goods …
Habitat fragmentation of freshwater ecosystems is increasing rapidly, however the understanding of extinction debt and species decline in riverine habitat fragments lags behind that in other ecosystems. The mighty rivers that drain the Himalaya - the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Indus, Mekong and Yangtze - are amongst the world’s most biodiverse freshwater …
The Haryana government extended “undue favours’’ to the contractor who constructed the Kaushalya dam, which failed to serve its main purpose of providing drinking water to Panchkula despite a four-fold increase in cost, according to an audit conducted by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. “The objective of providing …
The ambitious Rs 3,600-crore project was aimed at providing 275 million gallons of water to Delhi every day The long-pending Renuka Dam project, which has been facing environmental clearance hurdles, and has been entangled in legal and political spats for over 20 years, has been allocated Rs 50 crore by …
The bill was approved amid stiff opposition from TRS, BJD and some other parties A controversial bill which paves the way for the Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh by merging some villages and mandals of Telangana with Seemandhra was approved in the Lok Sabha today, amid stiff opposition from TRS, …
Untreated sewage, open defecation from project sites and townships, dissolved solids and faecal coliforms (bacteria) have emerged as the largest polluters contributing to the deterioration of the Sutlej river water quality, a recent study has revealed. The study has also raised a question mark on the proposed Rs 515-crore lift …
Taking a note of China’s decision to construct three hydropower projects on the Brahmaputra River, India has conveyed its concern to the neighbouring country. India has urged China to ensure that the interests of downstream States should not be harmed by any activities in the upstream areas. “During the visit …
The baseline for "normal" weather used by everyone from farmers to governments to plan ahead needs to be updated more frequently to account for the big shifts caused by global warming, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday. The WMO's Commission for Climatology believes rising temperatures and more heatwaves …
A consultant engineer, JN Khatoniar, said on Tuesday that the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project being set up at Gerukamukh along the Assam–Arunachal Pradesh border had many technical faults. Talking to newsmen in Guwahati on Tuesday, Khatoniar said: “The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) can never reduce the height of the …
The Kolkata National Green Tribunal on Monday asked the Ministry of Environment and Forest to come with its replies to the queries raised by the Assam Public Works (APW) in its case against big dams on August 6 this year when the case will be heard again. The hearing of …
Contradictory views emerged during the National Dialogue on Ganga (Ganga Manthan) here on Monday with a majority of stakeholders, including saints and NGOs, questioning the government plan for navigation and construction of modern dams in the river basin. They sought to know how the government would ensure a “continuous and …
Acting on its June 12 order raising the height of Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat, the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) has issued an order giving permission to the Sardar Sarovar Nigam Limited (SSNL) to kick off construction work at the project site. SSNL will now be able to carry out …
