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 …
for an environmentalist with an interest in water, this is the time to be on a water circuit. When the governments of the world met in June 1997 to discuss the progress made in the five years after the Rio conference, they decided that the 1998 meeting of the Commission …
some two decades ago, South Africa's powerful asbestos mining companies closed shop. Most of them left open waste dumps of the deadly fibre to be spread by wind and water. Now, the University of Potchefstroom's Research Institute of Reclamation Ecology (rire) has been handed over the task of rehabilitating many …
l Solur, Tamil Nadu, May 1983. Investigations reveal that tanneries in nearby Ambur town have been releasing acidic waste into the river Palar, making the water toxic and unfit for drinking. l Bhopal, December 2, 1984. Methyl isocyanate leaks out of containers in the Union Carbide factory. Many die, thousands …
Relief and compensation for life and property from a disaster is provided in Australia under the State Disaster Act, 1980. The State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF) is responsible for collecting money for material and personal harm and for administering the fund. The SDRF committee can take decisions in awarding claims …
Year Corporation Country Cause of damage Number of Claimants Compensation (US $) Compensation/ Claimant(US $) 1984 Union Carbide India Methyl isocyanate gas 600,000 470 million 783 1985 Johns Manville USA Asbestos exposure 60,000 2.5 billion 41,667 1986 A H Robins USA Dalkon Shield (intra-uterine device) 94 520 million 5,531,915 1994 …
the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) has submitted a Rs 480 crore Yamuna action plan to the Delhi High Court to clean the river. "The plan is being funded by the Overseas Environmental Cooperation Fund, Japan. So far, an amount of Rs 121.52 crore has been spent on the programme …
according to the National Environment Engineering Research Institute ( neeri ), Nagpur, the Betwa river in the state of Madhya Pradesh is highly polluted. Tests conducted recently by neeri have revealed that the water quality of the river is so bad that it cannot be used for even irrigation purposes. …
It was not the spending of hundreds of crores of rupees in cleaning the Ganga that made the average Indian who takes a dip in the river, sit up and acknowledge something that the world had known for long. The Ganga was polluted. And highly polluted at that. At Patna, …
Eco-friends, a non-governmental organisation, has been striving to control pollution and protect the environment in Kanpur. One of its tasks is to depollute the Ganges, whose stretch along Kanpur has been identified as the most polluted one. Five huge drains which carry domestic sewage and contaminated water from a tuberculosis …
there may be hope for overcrowded, congested and filthy urban India in the near future. Town planners have the option to prioritise environmental considerations. An environmental management plan is being prepared by the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) for Kanpur. Once prepared, it will be taken up by the Uttar …
The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and the collector of Thanjavur to initiate prosecution against the Commissioner of the Mayiladuthurai Municipality in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu if no proper steps are taken to check pollution in the Cauvery river within three months. The …
The government has given importance to the problem of river pollution with the establishment of a National River Conservation Authority chaired by the Prime Minister. Unfortunately, river conservation programmes will be effective only if the ecological, economic, technological and social dimensions of the problem are seen in a comprehensive manner. …
the threat of arsenic pollution looms large over the north Karanpura coal fields of south Bihar, in the coal samples of Bachara and Piparwar. A recent study conducted by Nitish Priyadarshi, a research scholar from the Ranchi University, has revealed high levels of arsenic, nickel, chromium, strontium, lead, cadmium and …
THE Varanasi-based NGO, Sankat Mochan Foundation (SMF), has submitted an alternative to the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) to the Centre in early May. The group has approached the Ganga Project Directorate for its plan to be included in the GAP phase II. The plan envisages the construction of a 'gravity …
SIBERIAN rivers have turned into poisonous streams carrying large amounts of toxic chemicals into the Arctic Ocean, harming wildlife in the region. According to the findings of State of the Arctic Environment, a report compiled by scientists from eight Arctic nations and published recently in Norway, these rivers contain hundred …
IT TOOK 50 years for the Municipal Corporation (MC) of Ludhiana to shake off its stupor and gear up to rid the city of garbage accumulated over these years. Although better late than never, authorities now realise that the powerful industrial lobby of the city - one of the most …
The state of Virginia is going to sue the US government demanding US $1.5 million as its share ofthe money spent so far and for future expenses required for cleaning up the pollution caused by a rayon fibre factory. The state has alleged that the federal government was aware of …
Three Guyanese citizens have filed a case against the Canadian mining company Cambior in the superior court of Quebec, Canada, for the environmental damage caused by the leakage of 3.2 billion litres of cyanide-laced waste into Guyanese rivers in August l995. The spill took place when the wall of a …
Pesticides and industrial runoff all along the river Yamuna have turned its water into poison. This is one of the key findings of Homicide by Pesticides , the latest publication of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi. The book was released by the Leader of the Opposition …
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE when I received the invitation to release your report on the pollution of the Yamuna and its effect on Delhi's drinking water supply, I was a little hesitant. I cannot claim any expertise in this field. But since pollution control and preservation of the environment is central …
