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 …
the Indira Gandhi canal project is an example of what short-sighted planning can do to the environment. More than solving water problems in Rajasthan, it has converted the area it irrigates into a marshy and saline desert. Arable land and habitations have become waterlogged. Villages lie deserted and native flora …
Desert rodents like the Indian gerbil ( Tatera indica) and Meriones are carriers of plague, but are resistant to the disease. Another group of rodents, which includes the house rat ( Rattus rattus ) and the bandicoot ( Bandicota bengalensis ), is highly susceptible to plague, which is transferred by …
The availability of water for irrigation has changed agricultural practices. With new crops, new pests have emerged. Hardly any records are available prior to 1975. Studies carried out between 1975 and 1991 indicate several changes
Sewan grasslands occupy areas with low rainfall. They were spread across Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Barmer districts, but can no longer be seen now. Irrigation became possible with water from the Indira Gandhi Canal, and the grasslands were transformed into agricultural fields. But flood irrigation has also increased soil moisture, threatening …
The great Suez Canal - conceived in Pharaonic times and built by a French entrepreneur - which links the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, will be going in for a facelift. The trouble is that the Canal, just 5.25 m deep, is too shallow to accommodate the huge supertankers that …
JUST as farmers in the dry districts of western Rajasthan were looking forward to a good harvest following the heaviest Irains in 2 decades earlier this year, a deadly disease - cerebral malaria - ran riot through the villages. All hopes of prosperity were dashed as hundreds of people were …
THE recent outbreak of falciparum malaria in non-endemic areas in Rajasthan has underscored the link between development projects and the damage they cause to the human environment. Public health experts as well as social workers have pointed out that the fuse for the disease's flare-up lay in the well-meant Indira …
FOR nearly 400 years, Nepal has been using an indigenous irrigation system fortified remarkably without the help of cement or girders. The farmers in the Gorkha, Palpa and Rupandehi districts have built over centuries a complex network of canals and weirs using only boulders, tree branches, soil and wood to …
