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: Union Science and Technology Minister Ashwani Kumar's statement that the 115-year-old Mullaperiyar dam is safe has not gone down well in Kerala with ruling front ally Kerala Congress (Mani) on Monday announcing its support to a strike call by an anti-dam panel. Government chief whip and senior KC (Mani) …
The minister of state for science and technology and earth sciences, Mr. Ashwini Kumar, on Sunday said that the controversial Mullaperiyar dam was ‘safe’ and all steps were being taken to ensure its ‘fullest and most comprehensive security’. The minister’s statement comes in the wake of the submission of preliminary …
Rejects Tamil Nadu's stand that a new dam is not necessary as the present one is safe Despite the unanimous opinion of two experts of the Supreme Court-appointed Empowered Committee that the 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam is safe, Kerala has pressed for the construction of a new dam. In a fresh …
KOCHI: Kerala High Court today disposed of a batch of petitions raising concern over safety of the Mullaperiyar Dam after some petitioners expressed satisfaction over measures taken by the state government. The petitioners, including Opposition leader V S Achuthanandan, had moved the court complaining of the inadequacies of the safety …
The 35th Chennai book fair started on a controversial note after May 17, a pro-Tamil group, staged a protest in the fair venue demanding that the Malayala Manorama publication stall be removed, and criticising its stand on the Mullaperiyar issue. Members of May 17 had protested before the Manorama stall …
T. Shivaji Rao, Director, Centre for Environmental Studies, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, has sent a memorandum to Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah calling for action to prevent a man-made catastrophe from impending collapse of the Mullaperiyar dam. The Director said that the Mullaperiyar dam did not meet modern safety norms and …
Tamil Nadu on Friday told the Supreme Court-appointed Empowered Committee that the Mullaperiyar dam had been strengthened and was being well maintained. Being a retrofitted dam, it was safe in terms of hydrological as well as structural safety parameters, and there was no need for a new reservoir. In its …
Officials sources clarified here on Friday that Kerala's expression of willingness for joint control of the proposed new dam on the Mullaperiyar was about water regulation only. The proposal placed before the Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court earlier was that the ownership, control and maintenance of the new dam …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that the model of a joint water supply and regulation management system that already exists between Kerala and Tamil Nadu for sharing of water from the Parambikulam-Aliyar and Shirvani reservoirs will be acceptable for the proposed new dam to replace the Mullaperiyar dam. Inaugurating …
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu and Kerala will submit their suggestions for the construction and management of a new dam at Mullaperiyar over the next few days to the Supreme Courtappointed Empowered Committee examining the issue. Their responses would be among the various proposals that the Empowered Committee would be considering …
The State Government has expressed its favourable disposition to the idea of a ‘joint control' of the proposed new dam at Mullaperiyar. But it could not have been more happy and relieved to learn that the ‘new dam in place of the century-old' should have found wide acceptance, according to …
The Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee on the controversial Mullaperiyar dam on Tuesday refused to entertain Kerala’s plea to lower the reservoir’s water level from 136 feet to 120 feet. The five-member panel, headed by former Chief Justice of India A.S. Anand, also asked the Geological Survey of India (GSI) to …
Inspection in the wake of recent tremors in the region Allaying the apprehensions of the people of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the two technical experts of the Supreme Court appointed-Empowered Committee (EC) on Tuesday informed the Committee that the recent tremors in that region did not have any impact on …
The two technical experts of the Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee on Mullaperiyar dam on Monday submitted their report on the safety of the controversial reservoir before the full bench of the panel. While the report by Dr C.D. Thatte and Mr D.K. Mehta, the experts who inspected the dam on …
Kerala on Monday asserted before the Supreme Court-appointed Empowered Committee that the “construction of a new dam is the only solution to the complex Mullaperiyar dam issue” and that it would give more water to Tamil Nadu. Appearing for Kerala, senior counsel Rajeev Dhavan and counsel Mohan Katarki said: “If …
The Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee on Mullaperiyar dam is likely to receive a crucial study report on Monday on the safety aspect of the controversial dam. The two-technical experts of the committee, Mr C.D. Thatte and Mr D.K. Mehta, are expected to submit their report before the committee on the …
C.P. Roy former chairman of the Mullaperiyar Agitation Council which is spearheading an agitation for a new dam at Mullaperiyar, has put forth an alternative proposal for ensuring the safety of the people downstream of the dam while ensuring the same quantity or more water from the existing dam to …
The State Government will ‘petition' the Empowered Committee (EC) against the ‘unacceptable' conduct of a two-member team it had deputed to Mullaperiyar to take stock of the situation of the century-old dam there. Riparian States Kerala and Tamil Nadu have been contesting each other's claims on the safety aspect of …
Kerala is endowed with vast small hydro potential to the tune of about 700 MW. Government of Kerala has issued several guidelines from time to time for the development of small hydro development since 1992. The measues have encourage private investment to harness green energy from natural resources. The Kerala …
The Kerala Government should implement the Supreme Court order in connection with the Mullaperiyar dam issue, otherwise the Kerala Government led by Omman Chandi should be replaced to provide justice to the people belonging to Tamil Nadu, said the former Minister, EVKS, Elangovan. The former Minister who came to Nagercoil …
