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 …
Legal hurdles coming in the way of the under-construction 16-lane expressway from the Delhi-Gurgaon border to Sector 55-56 seems to have been resolved with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) giving its approval to resume the construction work. The residents of the National Media Centre had approached NGT asking it to …
Children of Jeed, Beli, Handad and Janda villages in Samba district of J&K; have to walk 10 km everyday to attend their school at Sumb as these villages have no road connectivity. The four villages, situated just 25 km away from the district headquarters, are glaring examples of lopsided development …
Locals of Basaha-7, remote belt of the district have started to construct 1.5-kilometre road section from Basaha to Khotangre Tole at the VDC in their own initiation by raising funds at the local level. The road section will be constructed through voluntary labour and public donation, said local Purna Bahadur …
Greens Seek Compensatory Planting Drive The public works department’s (PWD) plans to cut down trees for widening Main Central Road (MC Road) – connecting Ernakulam and Thiruvananthapuram – have run into trouble as environmentalists have come out against the move demanding implementation of compensatory tree planting programme or announcing a …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Giriraj Parikrama Sanrakshan Sansthan & Others Vs Department of Environment and Forests & Others dated 01/04/2014 regarding cutting of trees in the town of Govardhan in Mathura district. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/229-2013(OA)_2Apr2014.pdf
‘Our wait for basic amenities continues’ Residents of Anbu Nagar in Maniyakarampalayam near Ganapathy on Sunday resorted to a protest banning the entry of politicians and candidates into their area and threatened to boycott the Lok Sabha elections. The residents first prevented a campaign vehicle of the Congress that was …
Phulbani, Odisha: A large number of tribal people have threatened to boycott polls for Kandhamal Lok Sabha and Phulbani Assembly seats accusing the government of being callous in providing basic facilities like drinking water, electricity, education and healthcare. Around 5,000 voters, mostly tribals, of Bilabadi, Danga, Shraba, Mallickpada, Shamapaju, Birigada …
The National Green Tribunal, while hearing the application of environmentalists on Monday, instructed the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) to follow procedure as per the law while felling trees. It asked applicants to submit their objections after the NMC issues notices about the trees. Justice V R Kingaonkar and Justice Abhay …
The Sri Lankan Government has received a US$ 40 million loan from Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) of Korea to fund the improvements of several roads in the hill country. The funds will be utilized towards the cost of improvements on the 46.75 km Hatton - Nuwara Eliya section of …
This month, a pedestrian activist in Bangalore lost her life in a road accident. But the fight goes on. Sunday Times profiles some custodians of the roads who are getting pedestrians off the back foot Rishi Aggarwal’s love for walking began when he was a young boy and had to …
Courting better footpaths While walking to her workplace in Bangalore, Jenny Pinto encounters electrical transformers, uncovered manholes and displaced tiles. After years of trying to nudge people into action for walkers’ rights, Pinto has realized one thing. “That unless citizens take a legal route to make civic authorities understand the …
Two years back, Gita Vir, a civic activist, died when she was hit by a motorcycle while she was crossing a road. Vir, a founder member and trustee of the National Society for Clean Cities (NSCC), Pune, was an activist who wanted to make sure that the streets are safe …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday asked the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to file an affidavit confirming that it had complied with all the norms before cutting down trees for a road-widening project in the city. "The tribunal has asked the PMC to file a compliance affidavit. We …
The process to upgrade the 20-km Kathmandu-Sisdole road stretch has begun, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City says. The stretch links Kathmandu with the Sisdole landfill site in Nuwakot. "The civic body has begun works to upgrade about 10-km section," said Rabin Man Shrestha, chief of the Environment Management Division at the …
Jayanagar, with its bicycle-friendly streets, is well suited for promoting the use of bicycles, according to a study commissioned by the Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT) in 2010. The study conducted by Gubbi Labs Private Limited (GLPL) identified critical intersections, locations for signage and parking facility. The three-phase study …
Tall claims of the government of improved infrastructure in the city fell flat today when an inch of snow and light rainfall resulted in flooding of all the major roads in the Srinagar city. The worst scenario in the city was at Jehangir Chowk, Iqbal Park, Magarmal Bagh, Saraibala, Wazir …
Industry Minister Karna Bahadur Thapa today laid the foundation stone of Maure-Kailashmandu and Maure-Toli-Chatara road sections in Bajura. The District Development Committee’s Rural Access Programme is undertaking the road construction work. Minister Thapa said all the VDCs in the district would be connected with road network. “I will also take …
Shredding machines installed in each of the four zones The Erode City Corporation has scaled-up usage of waste plastic materials for relaying of roads, as a way of addressing the challenge of solid waste management. Thirteen stretches to a cumulative length of 13.6 km were taken up for relaying using …
Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Qaim Ali shah directed the authorities of Work and Services Department to ensure the construction of 1200 kilometer roads by completing at least 150 ongoing road development schemes by the end of this financial year. He also directed to speed up the work on Nawab-Shah …
Tripura has kept its top position for the fifth consecutive year for offering 66 person–days so far in the current fiscal in executing the central government’s flagship rural jobs scheme MGNREGS, a minister said here on Monday. “Tripura has been providing the highest average employment for the past five years …
