Report by Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) in Original Application No 184, 233 and 234 of 2024 (SZ) (Suo Motu Vs The Principal Secretary, Kerala & Others). The matter related to mass fish kill in Periyar river in Kerala after suspected effluent release. The NGT was informed that the …
Precarious situation prevails in the Chimminy, Peechi and Periyar forest areas K.S. Sudhi KOCHI: Forest fire has become a major environmental concern in the State with many of the wildlife sanctuaries facing the threat of outbreak of wildfire. A precarious situation prevailed in the Chimminy, Peechi and Periyar forest areas. …
THEVARAM (THENI): The State government will write a letter to the Centre to protest against deputation of a special committee, comprising three MPs including two from Kerala, to the Periyar Dam on January 1 to check its strength.
Rivers in the southwest coast of India are under immense pressure due to various kinds of human activities among which indiscriminate extraction of construction grade sand is the most disastrous one. The situation is rather alarming in the rivers draining the Vembanad lake catchments as the area hosts one of …
on january 7, 2006, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (kspcb) permitted Hindustan Insecticides Limited (hil), a central government-owned enterprise manufacturing ddt and endosulfan, to resume production. This, even as environmentalists protested that the company has not met all pollution control measures. On December 27, 2006, kspcb had asked hil …
THE longstanding controversy over the Mullaperiyar dam on the river Periyar assumed bitter proportions in December 2006 with the Kerala government accusing its Tamil Nadu counterpart of pulling out of talks initiated by the Union minister of water resources, Saifudin Soz. The talks had begun on September 25 after directives …
Local Area Environmental Committee was constituted by the Kerala State Pollution Control Board in compliance of the direction issued by the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee. This environment audit report was prepared by the Local Area Environmental Committee, Eloor-Edayar, Kochi, dealing with 247 industries in the Eloor/Edayar industrial belt.
Local Area Environment committee under the term of reference was asked to conduct an environmental audit of 247 industries located in Eloor-Edayar industrial belt and report the effect on the ecology, environment and on the health of the local population with the specific reference to the study of raw materials, …
at a hearing on November 10, 2005, the Supreme Court (sc) suggested that an expert committee be set up to probe technical and safety issues relating to the height of the Mullaperiyar dam
One stove, one pot What eco-development means to people in Nagarhole When forest department officials find a handful of tourists staying overnight in the Nagarhole forest they put on a video show in the evening. For the last two years the same cassette has been played: Nagarhole's magnificent wild animals …
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Both the Forestry Research Education and Extension Project (FREEP) and its later, larger avatar, the India Eco-development project (IEDP) had a single objective: conserve biodiversity. What also made it a different form of rural development, quite unlike anything government had hitherto done, was the equal emphasis on improving the lives …
IEDP's larger monitoring mechanism, too, seems to have been primarily meant for the government or Bank consumption. The Bank sent its supervisory missions and its supervisors wrote
There exists a document called Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihoods. It is the Indian government's initial salvo for a new eco-development project, expected to begin late 2005. It will cost approximately US $48 million (Rs 220 crore), with beneficiaries putting in US $2 million (Rs 9.20 crore). The remaining …
Nimati Domohini village in the west of Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, is on a highway where a side road breaks off and leads to the reserve's Nimati range office seven kilometres away. But the village is miles away from realising the dreams dreamt by its 331-member eco-development committee (EDC) …
widespread public protest and media debate has forced the Kerala government to shelve its ambitious project to sell the waters of two major rivers to multinational companies. The project sought to attract global corporate investment in two industrial water supply programmes. It envisaged extraction of 240 million litres of water …
The Supreme Court has directed the Union government and the state governments of Kerala and Tamil Nadu to file replies on the outcome of a meeting organised to discuss the safety aspect of the Mullai Periyar dam and raising the water level in the reservoir. The apex court directed the …
