Reply affidavit on behalf of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Gavhan Koliwada Matsyavyavsayik Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit Vs City & Industrial Development Corporation & Others dated 28/01/2025. City & Industrial Development Corporation submitted a proposal for CRZ clearance for the construction of coastal road from …
in december 1984, the Telugu Desam (a regional party in Andhra Pradesh), came to power and introduced a scheme to provide the poor households of the state rice at a nominal cost of Rs 2 per kg (it has since been revised to Rs 3.50 per kg). The cheap rice …
it is, in fact, nitrogen's extraordinary usefulness to life which is at the heart of the damage it can cause. It ranks fourth as the most common chemical in living tissues, after oxygen, carbon and hydrogen. It is important for plant nutrition, and thus for animal life as well. It …
TODAY, from all states. The very object of convening this meeting is to work out the national policy in power sector. In the last four months, after I took over the responsibility of the administration at the Centre, I have realised that there is no proper national power policy. In …
yamdrok Tso is Tibet's third largest lake, a jewel of turquoise brilliance lying 120 km south of Lhasa at a height of 4,445 m. As a closed lake system, its brackish waters have a mineral content just below the upper boundary of normal freshwater, fed by snow melt and limited …
in 1993 , Manmohan Singh, India’s then finance minister, had proudly proclaimed that the country’s economic growth rate over the last year was around four per cent. India’s minister of state for environment and forests in the same government, Kamal Nath, could have easily pointed out to his ministerial colleague …
To estimate the health costs arising out of air or water pollution, economists calculate the costs of increased mortality (valuing premature deaths resulting from pollution) and increased morbidity (estimating the medical expenses incurred and wages lost due to sickness). Epidemiological studies carried out in cities in developed countries have revealed …
The major environmental costs that have not been calculated by Brandon and Hommann (B&H;) are those arising out of biodiversity loss, pollution due to hazardous wastes and the rapidly rising costs of providing clean water as a result of growing pollution of surface and groundwater sources. No attempt has also …
Delhi, the proud capital of India, is today being blasted by the severest health effects of air pollution amongst the country's cities, according to the Brandon and Hommann (B&H;) study carried out for the World Bank. The study concludes that some 7,500 people die a premature death every year in …
"We need high growth, but not at the cost of the environment or health. We have sufficient laws to ensure a cleaner industrial development. But do the entrusted agencies do their jobs? Industry says its purpose is creation of wealth; environmental damage depletes this wealth. What we need is an …
the issues of environment and ecology are intricately embedded in the socio-economic milieu in India. The coexistence of a substantial number of forest-dependent tribals and the mismanagement of resources is the reason for this. Poverty, and an indifferent bureaucracy add to the complexity of the situation. So what should be …
green activists are up in arms against the ongoing work on the Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka. They have stalled work on the project's transmission line which cuts through the Western Ghats, posing a threat to the precious flora in the area. Local residents and green activists under the …
IN PRESENTING the two films - Thar: Secrets of the Desert and The Village Republic - Anil Agarwal defines the basic concept of the series as studies in the organic relationship between ecology -and culture *. There is a direct link between the cultural and ecological diversity of India. In …
Dilip M Salwi, who has devoted more than 25 years to the cause of popularising science, has authored a number of science-based books for children. Among the more popular ones are Our scientists, A Passage to Antartica, Robots are Coming, Story of Zero, and Science in the 21st Century. His …
NESTLED 7,000 feet above sea level - in a northern offshoot of the Western Ghats called the Palani hills - lies the scenic hill station of Kodaikanal. This mountainous region is a major watershed for the plains below. The forests of the region trap rain water and release it slowly …
THE Centre for Ecological Research (CER) was set up at Kyoto University in April, 1991, to "promote fundamental research in various ecological topics, and provide facilities for the collaborative utilisation by ecologists throughout Japan and the rest of the world." In December 1991, the Indian Academy of Sciences -brought out …
On the one hand, Goa, the Western tourist's paradise, has earned valuable dollars, but on the other hand its ecology has suffered. This much talked about problem is the subject of Gargi Sen's new film. Says Sen, -The target of the film will be the large scale centralised tourism industry …
Orans are tracts of village land believed to be protectea by local deities, They are much more than just 'sacred groves; they are the ecological core of the area, supporting a storehouse of biological diversity, both in terms of numbers of individual species and micro-ecologies or communities. Thick trunks and …
THE unprecedented increase in population, and the even greater increase in the scale of human activity, largely in this century, have been brought about by the growing mastery of science and its applications. This has led to prosperity, improved standards of life, and opportunities have expanded beyond anything that the …
Muynak, which once lay on the coast of the Aral Sea nearly 70 km away from it. And since there is no road salty, toxic desert that has replaced the former seabed, it is no difficult to reach the Aral Sea from there. But a few determind fisherfoik still commute …
