Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Balwinder Kaur Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 19/03/2024. Balwinder Kaur, the applicant raised the grievance of risk of thousands of trees felling due to likelihood of land sliding. It was said that illegal mining is being carried out …
Union Government has launched Green Highways (Plantation, Transplantation, Beautification & Maintenance) Policy-2015 to promote greening of National Highway corridors across the country. The policy was unveiled by Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi. Key features of Green Highways Policy 2015: Promote greening and development eco-friendly …
AURANGABAD: In an age where experts are stressing on the need of increasing the green cover, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has axed over 12,000 trees to widen the Aurangabad-Solapur national highway. Another whopping 13,000 trees are awaiting a similar fate. The NHAI has taken up the project …
As Delhi grapples with congested roads and the increasing volume of traffic, its PWD minister has an interesting take on the problem. Satyendar Jain says that the city has sufficient road length required to accommodate the 82 lakh registered vehicles, but poor road engineering has let the traffic managers down. …
JIUQUAN, Gansu - China on Monday launched its most sophisticated observation satellite, Gaofen-9, as part of the country's high-definition Earth observation project. Gaofen-9 was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern province of Gansu at 12:42 pm aboard a Long March-2D carrier rocket. It was the 209th …
Nagpur: The principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at Delhi on Monday adjourned the hearing on road widening of NH-7 between 37km Mansar and Khawasa. The Maharashtra forest department on Monday brought in the big guns to defend their case in the NGT. As reported by TOI, the department …
A federal judge has upheld a decision by the U.S. government to protect Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, blocking a proposed 10-mile (16-km) gravel road linking an Aleutian Islands fishing community to an all-weather airport for medical evacuations. U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell first denied the road proposal in December …
Order of the High Court of Mumbai in the matter of M/S. Sion Panvel Tollways Pvt. Ltd vs The State Of Maharashtra And Ors dated 08/09/2015 regarding Concession Agreement in respect of a road tolling project, Maharashtra. The petitioners are required to maintain the road while collecting toll for a …
Good quality infrastructure services have to be paid for, either by the users as user charges or by the government through explicit subsidies. The recent dismantling of toll booths in the country is increasing the political and regulatory risks in public-private partnership projects, as user fees as a revenue source …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of National Highways Authority of India Vs Government of Maharashtra & Others dated 03/09/2015 regarding diversion of forest land to the non-forest purpose in the area of Karnala Bird Sanctuary, Panvel Taluka of Raigad District, Maharashtra.
Even as the legal battle over felling of trees on NH-7 between Mansar and Khawasa is yet to be settled, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has again started felling trees on forest land. Conservationists visiting the spot found that trees were being felled in Mogra beat under Paoni …
MUMBAI: Sunday morning witnessed a -'Human Chain' being formed along Mumbai's famous Juhu beach, in protest of BMC's Coastal Road project which proposes an underwater tunnel along the popular tourist attraction. Several citizen activists and local residents came out voicing their concerns over the impact the project would cause not …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Kallpavalli Vrishka Pempakamdarula & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 25/08/2015 regarding the adverse effects both long term and short term of the windmills project, Kallpavalli area, Ananthapur District of Andhra Pradesh.
PWD's road widening project from Andheria Mod to Fortis Hospital appears jinxed. Where work originally started on this stretch in February 2013, the project is not likely to be completed before mid-2016. It was scheduled to take about six months for completion. The latest in the series of troubles for …
Rome's waste management Agency (AMA) is due to receive soon an exclusive Italian patent to turn garbage into eco-asphalt, with a new procedure that may allow the municipality to both save money and preserve the local environment. The AMA is expected to receive the patent in October, and open a …
CHENNAI: The Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday directed notice to the Central and State governments on a petition alleging that the widening work of East Coast Road (ECR) being carried out was in contravention of the Coastal Zone Regulation Notification and Environment Impact Assessment Notification. …
The Delhi government is embarking on a massive exercise of “redesigning“ all roads that are more than 60ft wide. According to PWD minister Satyendar Jain, there are 1,260km of such roads, four of which are being taken up initially under a pilot project. Speaking at a round-table discussion on `Traffic …
Taking suo motu cognisance of a public interest litigation petition, the Madras High Court has called upon officials of the Road Transport and Highways Department to inform the court whether any impact study has been conducted over felling of thousands of trees while laying roads for a project. Hearing the …
Axing the future: According to Environmental Support Group, 50,000 trees were felled to widen a series of streets in the late 2000s. And between 2011 and 2014, 9,281 trees were felled for the City's metro and other road-widening projects. In the past decade, Bengaluru — once famous as India’s Garden …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Himalaya Environment & Employment Co-operative Society Ltd. Vs. State of Uttarakhand & Ors. dated 11/08/2015 regarding construction of roads in Uttarakhand which will cause destruction of greenery and trees as it is a soft soil and …
A planning blunder has led to the destruction of almost 900 towering old native trees after VicRoads severely underestimated the environmental impact of a highway project it is managing. Road safety is our utmost priority and roadside trees can be a hazard in run off road accidents. Many of the …
