The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on National Lake Conservation Programme, 29/11/2016. The National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP) has been merged in February, 2013 with another scheme of National Wetlands Conservation Programme (NWCP) to avoid overlap and promote better synergy into a new integrated scheme of National Plan for Conservation of …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on National Wetland Conservation Programme, 29/11/2016. The National Wetland Conservation Programme (NWCP) has been merged in February, 2013 with another scheme of National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP) to avoid overlap and promote better synergy into a new integrated scheme of National Programme for Conservation of …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Polluted Lakes, 25/04/2016. Based on the proposals received from different States, the Ministry has so far sanctioned projects for conservation of 63 lakes in 14 States at a total cost of 1096.09 crores under the NLCP/NPCA. So far, an amount of 635.902 crore has …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Schemes for Checking Water Pollution, 15/03/2016. The Ministry is implementing a number of Schemes for control and prevention of water pollution which include National River Conservation Programme (NRCP), National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP), National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems (NPCA) and Common Effluent …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Review of clearances to lake bed and eco-sensitive projects, 14/03/2016. The schemes of National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP) and National Wetland Conservation Programme (NWCP) have been merged in February, 2013 into an integrated scheme of National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems (NPCA) for …
Kolhapur: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on Monday handed over Rankala water sample reports, compiled in the last three years, to the National Green Tribunal (NGT)-appointed experts. The experts, Upendra Patel and Nirmal Shah, are from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Gujarat. They were on a two-day …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Conservation of Lakes, 15/12/2015. The State wise details of amount sanctioned and released to the State Governments so far for undertaking various projects for conservation of lakes are given in Annexure-I. Under the NWCP/NPCA, an amount of 145.65 crore has so far been released …
The Comptroller and Auditor General has said the Lake Development Authority and urban local bodies have taken up conservation and development of lakes in an "ad hoc manner" without proper coordination with each other. The results of performance audit showed that implementing agencies had taken up conservation and development work …
Encroachment, pollution contribute to steady degradation of the water body The slow implementation of Centrally-sponsored conservation projects, which were designed to lease fresh life to the Dal Lake, is contributing to the steady degradation of the picturesque water body. None of three key projects framed over the past decade to …
One of the major water bodies in Ranchi —Kanke Dam — that hitherto supplied water to thousands of houses settled around its periphery has been obliged with waste emanating from human activities concentrated around it and has put the reservoir under serious threat of extinction in the days to come. …
On her first trip to Udaipur since being sworn in as chief minister, Vasundhara Raje on Thursday lashed out at the previous government for pushing the state backward in terms of development. “Since Independence, Rajasthan had been under the governance of a single party for most of the time whose …
Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora while presenting a comparison report of the measurements carried out by Sir Walter R. Lawrence in 1895 and the latest available data including satellite imaginary said that there has been no shrinkage in the area of the Dal and …
State-Wise Releases under Centrally Sponsored Schemes for Protection of Environment referred to in the reply to Parts (a) & (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.29 regarding “Protection of Environment” by Shri Premchand (Guddu) due for answer on 05.08.2013.
The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has the mandate, inter alia, to conserve/restore urban lakes/water bodies, re-use and re-cycle waste water, etc. These are important factors, some oft forgotten, and have been summed up in the “Advisory on conservation and restoration of water bodies in urban areas” by CPHEEO for …
This paper intends to evaluate the legal and institutional protection available for the conservation of urban water bodies in India and in other parts of the world, particularly in the developed countries. The paper will also explore the technical tools for the management of water bodies.
State told not to treat eco protection as a soft subject The State government has failed to implement various Centrally sponsored projects aimed at rejuvenating the Pampa, the Vembanad Lake, and the Kuttanad water system, N.K. Sukumaran Nair, Pampa Parirakshana Samiti (PPS) general secretary, has said. Mr. Nair told The …
The tackle the problem of water pollution, the Pushkar Lake will soon have a coir mesh treatment system. An alarming water loss is also being reported from the lake for which the administration will seek assistance of specialists from the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee. At the meeting which took …
Works to rejuvenate polluted Kolavoy lake to be taken up under Central plan After several years of negligence, the much-abused Kolavoy lake, one of the largest water bodies in Kancheepuram district, might soon be rejuvenated. The lake, also known as Chengalpattu lake, will be the first water body in the …
Jaipur:The natural and manmade lakes in the state are at varying states of degradation and some have become history. Waking up to the crisis, the state government will now table the Rajasthan Lake Development Authority Bill, 2013 in the coming session of the assembly. The proposed bill would provide for …
