Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haidar Khan Hoti has approved a comprehensive contingency plan for controlling possible devastated flood during monsoon rains and directed PDMA for ensuring provision of assistance materials, food and other needs in flood vulnerable areas. Protection to lives and property of people, timely provision of assistance …
KOLKATA, 19 JUNE: A high-power monitoring committee was constituted by the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, today to monitor the flood-like situation in parts of south Bengal. She has also asked officials to set up a control room at Writers
POONCH: Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Taj Mohi-ud-Din said that J&K; being rich in natural water resources heading towards proper management and efficient distribution system to ensure smooth supply of potable water to each citizen in sufficient quantity. The department is striving hard to provide potable water to …
A high-level committee under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary will be set up to monitor issues related to water-logging, flood and cleanliness on roads. This was decided at the Flood Control Apex Committee meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday. Ms. Dikshit urged all the departments concerned …
Fourteen people were dead while 53 others missing as rain-triggered floods waters inundated large areas of a southwest Chinese province, the official media reported today. The floods in Guizhou Province also destroyed roads, bridges and thousands of homes, and forced evacuation of at least 45,000 residents of the worst-affected Wangmo …
This document contains summary sheet of low carbon development and cities. Cities and urban areas contain most of the productive and consumptive activities that are contributing to climate change. Indeed, almost all growth, both demographic and economic, is now occurring in and around urban settlements. Urban populations are also increasingly …
The PWD has taken up the project at a cost of Rs.40 crore TIRUCHI: Renovation works on the Srirangam Nattu Vaical, a major irrigation channel which branches off from the Cauvery River and runs across the island town of Srirangam, are expected to be completed by June. In a first …
CUDDALORE: Flood control measures at a total outlay of Rs. 600 crore are yet to take off in Cuddalore district. The Assembly elections have stalled the tender procedures for assigning as many as 54 works in this regard, according to K.V. Elangeeran, president of the Vettuvaikkal and Naraikkal Eri Paasana …
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday sanctioned 68 flood control proposals worth Rs 432.52 crore. The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by state irrigation minister Naseemuddin Siqqiqui. It was also decided in the meeting to set up flood control rooms, deploy required staff at these rooms and hold …
The irrigation and Flood Control department, the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) assured the High Court on Wednesday that the world
Construction of embankments is a popular structural measure of flood control. However, when breaches occur, as in case of Kosi & Malda embankments, extensive damages and loss of life occur. The need for critically analyzing the exact causes has been highlighted in the article, to avert such catastrophe in future.
The notification of the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2010 has provided a legal framework for protecting an ecosystem that has come under serious threat from unregulated development activity. Wetlands provide a range of ecosystem services, not the least of which is water security to vast regions housing millions of …
The Haryana government will spend Rs 350 crore on flood prevention measures in the state. This was stated by the finance, irrigation, forest and environment minister Ajay Singh Yadav in a press conference at Sirsa. He said that out of this amount, Rs 18 crore would be spent on strengthening …
JAMMU, Jan 4: Minister for Health, Horticulture & Floriculture, Sham Lal Sharma has directed the officers of Flood Control Department to take effective measures for protecting right bank of river Chenab at Akhnoor from soil erosion due to floods. The Minister was on an extensive tour of all the flood …
This paper presents a methodology for assessing spatial and temporal uncertainty associated with flood risk management. Traditional modelling approaches focus on either temporal or spatial variability, but not both. There is a need to understand the dynamic characteristics of flood risk and its spatial variability. The traditional two-dimensional (2D) fuzzy …
Haryana government will spend Rs 40.98 crore during the current financial year under Ganga Flood Control Commission (GFCC) and a sum of Rs 22.64 crore has been proposed under Nabard schemes to be executed in the state. This was revealed in a meeting presided over by the irrigation minister Ajay …
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government has devised Rs.25-crore plan for preventing floods in Kaithal district, said State Public Works (Building and Roads) and Public Health Engineering Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala on Tuesday. He said the capacity of
KOKRAJHAR, Dec 7: The people of flood and erosion-prone Dhemaji district under the banner of the Ganatantric Nagarik Suraksha Mancha (GNSM) raised their demand for permanent flood and erosion control structures in the district. The Mancha has taken the twin problem of flood and erosion in the district as a …
