Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
SILCHAR, April 7: Committee on People and Environment (COPE) in a memorandum addressed to the Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh of Manipur expressed its deep concern at the construction of Tipaimukh Dam despite opposition from naturalists and environmentalists of Northeast. There have been protest demonstrations by NGOs in Manipur, Mizoram …
Gandhinagar: Gujarat will have to seek separate set of permissions from the powerful Narmada Control Authority (NCA) at least three years from now to fill up Narmada dam with waters up to the full reservoir level (FRL) of 138.68 metre. Only after these permissions are taken, Gujarat will be able …
Vijayawada, April 4: The Communist Party of India (CPI) state secretary, Mr K. Narayana, has emphasised the need for the intervention of the Prime Minister, Mr Manmohan Singh, to find an amicable solution to the Krishna surplus waters dispute between Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. The CPI leader said the Karnataka …
Gandhinagar: In a major boon to Gujarat, the environmental sub-group of Narmada Control Authority (NCA) on Thursday cleared the decks for raising the Narmada dam height from the current 121.92 metres to 138.64 metres, which is the dam
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu government suffered a setback on Monday with the Supreme Court dismissing its application seeking to recall the order appointing an Empowered Committee, headed by the former Chief Justice of India, Justice A.S. Anand, to go into the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam. By …
IN a fresh twist to the Mul- laiperiyar dam row, Tamil Nadu on Monday told the Supreme Court that it was not interested in adjudicat- ing the dispute with Kerala before the special empow- ered committee appointed by the apex court for settling the inter-State issue. Instead, Tamil Nadu urged …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Asserting that constructing a new dam across Mullaperiyar to replace the 113-year old existing structure was inevitable, Kerala Government today earmarked Rs ten crore in its budget for a detailed study for it. Presenting the budget, State Finance Minister T M Thomas Issac said considering the safety and interest …
The Green Bench of the Kerala High Court, handling environmental cases, on Friday asked the Government not to demolish for another month the two check-dams the Tata Tea company had constructed at Lakshmi Estate and Chittivarai in Munnar. The stay ordered by the court became yet another victory for the …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: On the proposed new dam at Mullaperiyar, Premachandran said Geological Survey of India(GSI) officials visited the site on Tuesday. ``Four of the five boreholes have been dug. The alignment for the dam has more or less been fixed,
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala today said it is keen on having total control of the proposed new dam at Mullaperiyar, an issue over which the state and Tamil Nadu have locked horns for long. "Kerala
DISMISSING the contention of opposition parties that the DMK government had compromised the rights of the State by allowing the constitution of a high-level committee to study the safety aspects of Mullaiperiyar dam, Chief Min- ister M Karunanidhi on Friday said that "nothing is lost now as the Tamil Nadu …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Mullaperiyar dam case took a new twist on Wednesday with the Supreme Court constituting a high-level empowered committee to go into all issues, including the safety aspects of the dam, raising the water level beyond 136 ft as also Kerala
THE drilling of boreholes has begun for collecting rock samples to test the rock levels prior to the construction of th new dam at Mullaiperiyar. A team of experts was doing the drilling exercise from the Lal Bahadur Shastri Centre for Science and Technology (LBS) in Thiru vananthapuram. On Wednesday, …
KATTAPPANA: Engineers of the Lal Bahadur Sastri Centre for Science and Technology will start drilling on Tuesday at five locations in the area identified for the construction of a new dam across the Mullaperiyar to study whether the rocks there are strong enough to support the proposed structure. The drilling …
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has represented to Government of India to ask Narmada Control Authority (NCA) to allow raising the height of the Narmada dam from 12.92 metres, stationary since December 2006, to full reservoir level (FRL) of 138.68 metres. Admitting that the construction to FRL is
S.S. NEGI In the hotly contested Mullaperiyar dam case, the focus on Tuesday turned to the feasibility of a new dam with the Supreme Court putting specific query to the lawyer of Tamil Nadu asking why the state was so "sensitive" about the construction of a new reservoir. While Tamil …
KOCHI: The Dam Design Committee for the new dam at Mullaperiyar on Saturday primarily identified the spot for the construction of the dam. The spot, which is around 380 metres on the down stream of the existing dam, was fixed following a visit by members of the Dam Design panel. …
Jisha Surya THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After playing spoilsport to the political ambitions of many leaders in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the 115-year-old Mullaperiyar dam has now started affecting the nuptial dreams of youths living on the banks of Periyar. A new phenomenon of an unusual increase in the number of aborted marriage …
The Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) with its major river systems has vast potential for hydropower development. Recognizing this potential, the Government of India in its recent initiative for 50,000 MW power generation proposes to develop several hydropower projects in the IHR. Based on the understanding of the prevailing policy framework …
