Affidavit filed by Chhattisgarh East West Railway Limited in the matter of Sudiep Shrivastava Vs Union of India & Others dated 15/04/2025. The appeal was disposed of by the NGT, April 29, 2019. However, the order was challenged before the Supreme Court (SC). The SC, November 26, 2024 disposed of …
Our policy kept people out of their forests and made them trespassers in their own land Sunita Narain / New Delhi September 13, 2010, 0:16 IST The Forest Rights Act of 2006
The main premise of political ecology is that environmental change is not a neutral process amenable to technical management. Rather, it has political sources, conditions and ramifications that impinge on socio-economic inequalities and political process. The article seeks to provide an introduction to the rapidly growing research field of Third …
Millions of trees in ecologically crucial areas like the Himalayas and Western Ghats have been saved by Chipko and Appiko Movement. These movements also worked for the regeneration of greenery over thousands of acres. The results can be seen in the forests of Jardhar and Piplet in Uttarakhand or the …
Apouch of organic brown rice or arhar dal, or anything organically grown is enough to remind us of Vandana Shiva-scholar and relentless campaigner of eco rights, who has made the term 'organic' part of uppity fashion. Her 'Navdanya' label of organic grains, grown in her Dehradun farm of the same …
In a throwback to the Chipko movement to save trees in the seventies, the Rakhi festival has turned into a rallying point for hundreds of village women near here as they pledge to protect their 'brother' trees that will be drowned by the Renuka hydroelectric project. Women from villages near …
Mumbai: A...organise a campaign againt felling of 100 trees for a road The residents of Napean Sea Road on Tuesday carried out a campaign, inspired by the Chipko Movement, to save more than 100 trees in their locality from getting axed because of a road widening project.
Mumbai: A...organise a campaign againt felling of 100 trees for a road The residents of Napean Sea Road on Tuesday carried out a campaign, inspired by the Chipko Movement, to save more than 100 trees in their locality from getting axed because of a road widening project.
MUMBAI: To protest against the BMC's plan to chop and relocate trees for the Nepean Sea Road widening project, school students on Tuesday will hug trees in the area reenacting the erstwhile chipko movement. The widening of this road will require relocation of 54 trees while 99 others will have …
1. STICKING TO A CAUSE Chipko Movement, 1973 The 1980s saw the debate on environment move from just deforestation to the larger issues of depletion of natural resources
Eminent environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna today suggested Bangaloreans to hug the trees which are on a 'death row' due to the Metro Rail project. Responding to questions, the grand-old Bahuguna said trees should never be felled for the
DH News Service, Sirsi: Soil, water and forest are the basis of human life and they should be conserved for the future generation, environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna said here on Sunday. Addressing a gathering after planting saplings in the premises of Salkani Secondary School to commemorate the silver jubilee year of …
PANJIM, SEPT 1 - Internationally renowned environmental activist and philosopher in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi, who has been tirelessly fighting as a member of the Chipko movement for the preservation of forests in the Himalayas and other parts of country and for the protection of rivers, will arrive in …
This is a unique year for India's environmental movement. It marks the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy. It is also the 30th anniversary of the Chipko movement: women of the Himalaya hugged trees to protect them from the axe of wood loggers. These events have changed the course …
it may well be a flashback to the 1970s for the mountainous village of Kataldi in the Tehri district of Uttaranchal. Just as in the past, the villagers are up in arms about the granting of a mining lease to a private firm. They contend that limestone mining will bring …
Kagjitola Bhagalpur Bihar. The struggle of 500 families on the banks of the Ganga is to the country's fisherfolk what the Chipko movement was to the forest people of India. In early 1980sit fought a successful battle against landlords and forced the state government to allow traditionalfisherfolk to fish in …
The closure of tunnels T3 and T4 comes even as a vast majority of people displaced remain to be rehabilitatedeven as recommendations of the Union government appointed Hanumantha Rao Committee remain to beimplementedeven as the Prime Minister appointed Murli Manohar Joshi committee is yet to submit its report and even …
few realise that behind the colourful contemporary folk art of Mithila paintings is a powerful message of conservation and an indication of the region's rich biodiversity. Traditionally done in the Madhubani region of north Bihar, the paintings were originally made by women as
