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 …
KOTTAYAM: Pressing for a new dam to replace the century-old Mullaperiyar reservoir, Kerala Water Resources Minister P J Joseph today said the state would place before the Supreme Court its objections to the Empowered Committee's report which concluded that the structure was safe. Holding that the exisisting dam was weak, …
With the Supreme Court deciding to consider petitions seeking lowering of the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam and that relating to construction of a new tunnel, the Mullaperiyar dam row appears set to dominate public debate in Kerala for months to come. The ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) has …
Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa said on Saturday that the state government’s stand on the Mullaperiyar dam has been vindicated by the Supreme Court appointed empowered committee’s report, which vouched for the safety of the dam. “That is what we have been saying all along,” she told reporters in New Delhi, …
CHENNAI: The five-member Supreme Court empowered committee on the Mullaiperiyar issue has emphasised on Tamil Nadu’s rights over the existing dam and all its waters, under the 1886 lease deed and the 1979 agreements, and said that the rights should be ‘fully honoured’. Apart from clearly stating that the dam …
The empowered committee appointed by the Supreme Court to examine the safety of the 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam has concluded that it is hydrologically, structurally and seismically safe. The panel, in its 250-page report, concluded that the full reservoir level, lowered in 1979 to 136ft, could be restored to 142ft as …
The Supreme Court today permitted Kerala and Tamil Nadu to get copies of the report submitted by the monitoring committee on the Mullaiperiyar Dam row. A five-judge constitution Bench of the court headed by Justice D K Jain, while permitting the two warring states to get copies of the report …
Setting at rest the controversy over the safety of the 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam, the Empowered Committee, headed by the former Chief Justice of India A.S. Anand, has said it is “structurally and hydrologically safe, and Tamil Nadu can raise the water level from 136 to 142 feet after carrying out …
The five-member Empowered Committee (EC) headed by former Chief Justice A. S. Anand has finalised the report on the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam. The 250-page final report will be submitted to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The committee's term ends this month-end. The committee, after examining the reports it …
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court-appointed Empowered Committee on the controversial Mullaperiyar Dam, over which Tamil Nadu and Kerala are at loggerheads, today finalised its much-awaited report on various aspects of the structure and will submit it to the court on Wednesday. The five-member committee headed by former Chief Justice of India …
The Supreme Court-appointed Empowered Committee on the Mullaperiyar dam today finalised its much-awaited report on various aspects of the structure and will submit it to the court on Wednesday. The five-member committee, headed by the former Chief Justice of India, Mr A.S. Anand, met here today and finalised the report …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court-empowered Committee on Mullaiperiyar dam that met here on Sunday will meet again on Monday to finalise the draft report that will be submitted to the SC by the month end. The committee’s tenure ends by the month end, and it has decided not to seek …
KOCHI: The state government on Thursday submitted before the Kerala High Court that there had been no lapses or shortcomings in implementing an action plan to meet any eventualities arising out of a possible collapse of the Mullaperiyar dam. The statement was filed in response to a petition filed by …
Guwahati, March 22: The report on the downstream impact of Lower Subansiri project, being prepared by a two-member technical committee constituted by the Centre, has been delayed. Chandrakant Damodar Thatte, former secretary of water resource ministry who heads the committee, told The Telegraph over phone from Pune that the report …
NEW DELHI, March 19 – The Centre has on Monday claimed comprehensive technical studies were carried out for safety of dams including dams in the North-East. In a Rajya Sabha reply to a question by Biren Baishya, Minister of State for Planning and Earth Sciences, Dr Shwani Kumar said the …
The five-member Empowered Committee (EC), headed by former Chief Justice of India A.S. Anand, on Monday finalised six chapters in the final report to be submitted to the Supreme Court on the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam. Besides Justice Anand, other Members in the panel are: Justice K.T. Thomas, retired …
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday called upon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to direct the Union Water Resources Ministry to delete “objectionable sub-clauses” from the draft Dam Safety Bill 2010. In a letter to the Prime Minister, she recalled her previous communication, sent in July 2011, in which she had urged …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The century-old Mullaperiyar dam, a bone of contention between the Kerala and Tamil Nadu Governments, may be hydrologically unsafe, but there are many options available for reducing its disaster risk, eminent civil engineering expert A K Gosain said. “Science has progressed fast and technically there are many options available …
The century-old Mullaperiyar dam may be hydrologically unsafe but there are many options available for reducing its disaster risk. The observation comes from Dr A.K. Gosain, Professor and Head of Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi. PMF METHOD Dr Gosain was here to make a presentation …
With a series of environmental problems and degradation threat looming large over the rivers Pampa and Achankovil in the wake of the recent Supreme Court order directing the Centre to implement the proposed river linking projects, Kerala Electricity Workers Federation (KEWF) has called upon the Government to expedite the proposed …
The fourth session of the 13th Kerala Assembly began on Thursday with the Governor reaffirming the State’s commitment to build a new dam at Mullaperiyar on the border with Tamil Nadu in order to replace the 116-year-old structure. In his policy address that marked the start of the Budget Session …
