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 …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday earned accolades from party colleagues at the AICC meeting for maintaining a high economic growth rate even during the global recession. The Congress also sought to flag concerns regarding the environment and difficulties faced by people that cannot be gauged by the
The government has decided to declare the 135-km stretch between Gaumukh and Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand as an eco-sensitive zone, a move that will ensure that large projects, like a hydel-power project would no longer be allowed to come up in this area. An in-principle nod in this regard was granted …
New Delhi: In a significant step, the Centre has given in-principle nod for declaring the 135-km stretch of the Ganga between Gaumukh and Uttarkashi as an eco-sensitive zone seeking specific activities to protect the rich biodiversity of the region. The National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) in its meeting held …
The World Bank on Thursday launched a programme to help nations put a value on nature just like GDP in a bid to stop the destruction of forests, wetlands and reefs that underpin businesses and economies. The five-year pilot project backed by India, Mexico and other nations aims to embed …
The World Bank has agreed to provide $1 billion for the Mission Clean Ganga being implemented by the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for restoring the
Mumbai: The beauty of the Western Ghats, one of the last few remaining densely forested areas in the country, may soon be relegated to the realm of the picture postcard. In what could bring forth one of the worst ecological disasters in years, the Maharashtra government has approved 49 mining …
FOOD is the key source of energy that is transferred from one organism to another in a food web. To study the transfer of energy from one trophic level to another, scientists from School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University (New Haven), zoomed into the eating habits of grasshoppers. …
SINDHUDURG (Maharashtra): Professor Madhav Gadgil, chairman of the ecology expert panel on Western Ghats, heard villagers and officials during his ongoing visit to Konkan. He observed that "prima facie there were deficiencies in some of the environment impact assessment reports'' for the power as well as mining projects in the …
I represent the Forum for Better Visakha (FBV) based at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. We have been active for quite sometime in highlighting the meaning of "development" as perceived by the local communities. I have tried to document the relevant concerns in my article on Sompeta in Economic and Political …
Hundreds of unemployed youths are earning their livelihood by harvesting of chalghuza pine (pine nut tree) in the local forest, says Ejaz Ahmed, the district in-charge of non-timber products of the forest department. Talking to Dawn here on Wednesday, he said that his department held a series of meetings with …
Mumbai NAVI MUMBAI Less land for commercialisation, consultants say can do without diverting Gadhi The state government is prepared to shift the proposed Navi Mumbai airport a little to the south, although this would leave less land available for commercial projects such as a hotel. The shift would involve the …
Nagarika Seva Trust and Dakshina Kannada Parisarasaktara Okkuta urged the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel led by Madhav Gadgil not to recommend Gundia power project as well as other mini hydel power projects in the Western Ghat region. In a memorandum submitted to the Madhav Gadgil during his visit to …
Kohima, Sept 19: Vice President M Hamid Ansari has said that the importance of bamboo has increased in the backdrop of global concerns of ecology and environment and the looming threat of global warming and climate change.
In the prevalent world view, the ecology is perceived as a subset of the economy where intense state interventions and ideological scaffoldings are needed to sustain this rule of capital. However, this order of things seems to be changing where the economy is now, increasingly, being perceived as a subset …
Ronald Anil Fernandes, Hongadahalla (Gundia Project site, Hassan dist), DHNS : There is a need for energy security, but not at the cost of ecology and environment, said Dr G V Subramanyan, Advisor to Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), after visiting Horibetta, Bettakumeri and Hongadahalla, the proposed sites …
Ronald Anil Fernandes, Hongadahalla (Gundia Project site, Hassan dist), DHNS : There is a need for energy security, but not at the cost of ecology and environment, said Dr G V Subramanyan, Advisor to Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), after visiting Horibetta, Bettakumeri and Hongadahalla, the proposed sites …
Hongadahalla (Hassan dist), Sept 16, DH News Service: A study made by Energy and Wetland Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) on - 'Biodiversity, Ecology and Socio-Economic aspects of Gundia River Basin in the context of proposed mega hydro electric power project' re-affirms that Gundia …
Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi September 15, 2010, 0:39 IST No-go zoning could delay capacity addition Timely commissioning of over 50,000 Mw of power generation capacity has been jeopardised owing to the environment ministry
