Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
Indus River System Authority (Irsa) has cut down 40 percent water supply to Chashma-Jhelum Link Canal, affecting the standing paddy and cotton crops in districts of South Punjab. Irrigation department sources told newsmen here on Monday that Irsa had reduced water supply from 18,000 to 10,000 cusecs to the canal. …
a central Empowered Committee- appointed expert panel has suggested reducing the size of the Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary in Maharashtra to 122,200 hectares (ha). But the state government wants to reduce it further, to 35,000 ha. The sanctuary, a prime habitat of the Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps), is spread …
T. Nandakumar New system to promote group farming and protect water bodies Law concerned will be amended soon Irrigation canals in need of repair THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala government is planning to introduce a participatory system of irrigation management, under which farmers will be entrusted with the operation and maintenance of …
Khammam, Aug. 24: The farmers of the Nagarjunasagar project left canal second zone ayacut wanted the government to announce the date of releasing water to their zone. The government started releasing water to the first zone on August 13 but did not announce the details of the second zone water …
Dhananjay Mahapatra TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A day after it won the trust vote, the UPA government on Tuesday acquiesced in the DMK's position in the Sethusamudram case to a question in the Supreme Court about the existence of Ram Sethu by citing the scriptures and Puranas. Unperturbed by …
GANDHINAGAR: Four years after it was launched, the state government has got a "post-feasibility study" of the controversial Sujalam Sufalam project prepared to silence its critics. Prepared jointly by the Institute of Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore and Water Resources Engineering and Management Institute (WREMI), Vadodara, it comes even …
PALAKKAD: The technical advisory committee of the Central Water Commission has approved a Rs 30 crore scheme for the extension and modernisation of the Kanhirapuzha irrigation canal. The project had been included under the Prime Ministers' agriculture package for drought-hit areas. The State Government has also accorded the financial concurrence …
The Abadgar Action Committee on Friday criticised continuation of the water rotation programme even after improved water level in the river and demanded a judicial inquiry into the Rohri Canal breach, which inundated hundreds of acres of land and several villages. The committee chairman, Allah Bachayo Zounr, said at a …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government will submit a scheme worth Rs.267 crore to the Centre within a week for permanent construction of distributaries of the Bhakhra irrigation system in northern parts of the State. The system covers an area measuring 20,285 hectares. State Water Resources Minister Sanwarlal Jat said during question …
Bangalore, DHNS: With a view to completing the irrigation schemes in Krishna, Cauvery and Godavari basins, the government has allocated Rs 3394.41 crore this year... Around 73,000 hectare are proposed to be brought under irrigation. For full usage of water under large and medium projects, the water users' associations will …
The army chief, General Moeen U Ahmed, has urged farmers to boost their farm produce to help the country attain food autarky, as it is not possible to live on imports.
A 90-foot breach in Khewra canal near Chak 385-JB inundated crops spreading over hundreds of acres of farmland late Monday night.Faisalabad irrigation department west circle superintending engineer Rana Rafiq Ahmad and Jhang executive engineer Abbas Shahid Cheema visited the spot and ordered a probe. The affected growers demanded that the …
The Khewra canal has been breached near Chak 385-JB Sahrian, inundating the crops on hundreds of acres of land. The water speedily moved towards Chak 378-JB Fattowal. However, the staff of Irrigation Department with the help of farmers succeeded to divert the water flow into a nearby nullah. The farmers …
The Khewra canal has been breached near Chak 385-JB Sahrian, inundating the crops on hundreds of acres of land. The water speedily moved towards Chak 378-JB Fattowal. However, the staff of Irrigation Department with the help of farmers succeeded to divert the water flow into a nearby nullah. The farmers …
JAIPUR: There seems to be a silver lining for Keoladeo National Park amidst dark clouds this monsoon. The indications are that the finances for the construction of the Govardhan canal are forthcoming -- though in a trickle. Two members of the Rajasthan Government's Empowered Committee on Forest and Wildlife, V. …
Hyderabad, July 13: Release of water to ayacut under Nagarjunasagar Project appears uncertain throwing agricultural operations in 22 lakh acres haywire. For the first time in the last four years, the irrigation department is not in a position to announce when the water is likely to be released in both …
Bangalore: The High Court on Thursday ordered issue of notices to the Irrigation Department officials for violating the court order to peg the leakage of canal of Kestur Post in Maddur taluk. The petitioner, K Madhegowda, who filed the civil contempt petition stated that the court direction dated April 8, …
A ship carries cargo from India to Bangladesh on the Brahmaputra. Similar step is being taken in Orissa too Bhubaneswar, July 9: Plans are afoot to develop a national waterway (NW-5) connecting the Brahmani and Mahanadi with the now-defunct East Coast Canal of the British days, extending up to Geonkhali …
Kushalnagar: Kudige Rameshwara Niravari Balakedarara Sahakara Sangha has alleged large scale misappropriations in the repair works of the main canal of Harangi irrigation project. Addressing a news conference, Sangha President I S Ganesh said that the repair works which were taken up recently are of substandard quality and said that …
