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 …
Punjab takes up the challenge THE repair of a canal normally would not have attracted much notice but for the fact that it is for the first time since Independence that a government in Punjab has undertaken to revamp the dilapidated canal system. The embankments along a 25-km stretch of …
The Punjab government has rejected the Rajasthan government's demand to supply 20,000 cusecs of canal water over and above the existing use of the water for irrigation purpose through the Rajasthan feeder being made by it. Sources said Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje had written to Parkash Singh Badal for …
Dry irrigation canals in the Malwa heartland of Punjab have made agriculturists weep. Most of the canals and tributaries in the area have been lying dry and causing drinking water crisis for the past two months, farmers cry. The farmers also lament that they are forced to buy drinking water …
The executive engineer of Dad irrigation division has announced a rotation programme for Rohri Canal in view of short supply of water. According to the programme issued on Saturday, Rein distributary (distry) and its system, Chanesar minor, Sakrand distry, Mangio minor, Forest minor, Rahib Shah distry, Bilawal Zardari minor, Khadar …
Tenders of one and four package of Dummugudem-Nagarjunasagar Project tail pond link canal, the first of its kind in the country in river linkage of Godavari and Krishna rivers, would be put online for e-procurement on February 27. The first package is an approach canal from zero to 6.5 km …
Officials who procured land for construction of a canal under the Handri-Neeva Sujala Sravanti (HNSS) project at Gargeyapuram village in the mandal, refused to pay compensation for about 50 acres, saying that it was government land. Mr Ravindra Reddy, a farmer, said their elders had purchased about 50 acres in …
Reiterating his commitment for ensuring equal distribution of canal water, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday assured the people of Ahirwal that canal water of Rivers Ravi-Beas would flow through their fields thanks to the Hansi- Butana Link Canal before the next Parliamentary elections. Addressing a rally organised …
Governance of Water: Institutional Alternatives and Political Economy is a timely, relevant book that makes a case for reforming water governance in India through not only re-orientating policy priorities and approaches, but also restructuring the institutional framework away from the state and village dichotomy. The book argues that a possible …
Orissa farmers make it clear that water from the Hirakud dam is for irrigation, not industry Some 30,000 farmers from eight districts dependent on irrigation water from the Hirakud dam in Orissa's Sambalpur district stormed the reservoir area on November 6. A lot of them were from the dam's command …
Mining firm Acquitted: On April 24, 2007, Newmont Mining Corporation, the world's biggest gold producer, and one of its executives were acquitted of charges related to dumping unsafe levels of toxic waste into a bay off Indonesia's Sulawesi Island. The judge said documents presented during the trial could not prove …
Call it is one of the unknown Indian ironies. Over many years, the Indian state, through its public irrigation agencies, has systematically taken over the management of surface water systems. It has taken over the job of building irrigation systems - dams, reservoirs and canals - then maintaining these and …
The paper aims to trace out if the role that panchayati raj institutions play towards decentralised management system over large irrigation systems in the state of West Bengal. The study highlights that the devolution of legal power to the panchayat fall short of control over canal irrigation systems of the …
STRAIT FORWARD A 150-year-old dream acquires shape The channel across the Palk Straits between India and Sri Lanka is expected to be operational by 2008: it will allow ships sailing between the east and west coasts of India a straight passage through India's territorial waters, instead of circumnavigating Sri Lanka. …
Rising population and over-exploitation of groundwater for irrigation has aggravated conflict among farmers located at the upper reaches and the tail end of the Palkhed canal system of the Upper Godavari project of Maharashtra. The formation of water users' associations did alleviate the conflict to some degree, but there continues …
farmers in Erode district of Tamil Nadu (tn) have strongly protested against effluents from tannery industries polluting the Kalingarayan canal, a subsidiary of the river Bhavani. The 91-kilometre Kalingarayan canal has nearly 44 tannery industries and 532 dyeing units near it. Coloured effluents from these units have affected the biota …
a project to turn a 145-year-old surface irrigation canal in Uttaranchal into an underground canal is threatening livelihoods in over nine villages of Dehradun district. The two-year-old proposal of the Irrigation Department (id) regarding the Dhakrani Canal, which supplies water from Ambadi to Herbertpur crossing, was accepted recently. The project …
in passing the Punjab Termination of Agreements Act, 2004, Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh has defied the law of the land and taken on the Supreme Court and the Union government. The Act renders null and void all legal agreements and treaties forged till date regarding sharing the water of …
syl row rages: The Supreme Court (SC) has come down heavily on the Punjab government for its failure to construct the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal in accordance with the court's January 15, 2002, order. An SC bench, comprising Justice Ruma Pal and Justice P V Reddi, observed that the state's …
Pakistan's Sindh Water Committee (SWC) has reiterated its demands that work on the greater Thal canal be stopped forthwith, and plans to construct dams on Indus river as well as its tributaries be shelved. Speaking at a news conference, SWC president Rasool Bux Palijo further demanded that Sindh province should …
