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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Gauri Maulekhi Vs. State of Jammu & Kashmir & Others dated 09/08/2017 regarding use of mules in Vaishno Devi shrine, Jammu & Kashmir. Counsel appearing for the Shrine Board submits that authorities are making all efforts to comply with the …
LUSAKA – The World Bank has set aside $600 million for Zambia to invest in agriculture, energy, rural roads and budget support over the next three years as part of its appreciation of what the Southern African country was doing to realign the economy. Zambia, whose external debt portfolio hovers …
Local officials currently have plans to build roads in Mount Leuser, Bukit Barisan Selatan and Kerinci Seblat National Parks in Indonesia's Sumatra Island. Conservationists fear these plans could accelerate habitat loss and degradation in this highly biodiverse forest complex, which is home to many endangered species. Proponents of road development …
Major roads could be turned into tunnels covered with pollution-absorbing material in an effort to cut emission fumes and improve air quality. Highways Agency officials are studying a Dutch scheme in which cantilevered canopies are constructed over the most polluted sections of road to prevent local residents breathing in noxious …
FG approves N99bn for infrastructure development in nine oil producing statesFG approves N99bn for infrastructure development in nine oil producing states The Federal Executive Council, FEC, presided over by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday approved N20.6 billion for the reconstruction of two road projects in Plateau and Kwara. The …
The Public Works Department (PWD) of the Delhi government has decided to procure six vacuum cleaning road machines, in addition to as many machines already in service, to reduce air pollution in the city, an official said today. The senior government official said that global tenders would soon be floated …
The research finds a correlation to the higher incidence of infant mortality when mothers and babies live within five kilometers of the roads, likely because of exposure to toxic materials used, transported and dumped during their construction, according to economists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Trinity College …
The Niger Government on Wednesday declared 'state of emergency' on federal roads following the collapse of two bridges, linking the Western and Northern Nigeria. Mr Jonathan Vatsa, the state Commissioner for Information, made the declaration shortly after inspecting the bridges in Tatabu and Bokani villages both in Mokwa Local Government …
The data were released Tuesday after National Traffic Council meeting chaired by the Vice President of Republic, Manuel Domingos Vicente. The Council’s spokesman, Ambrosio de Lemos, said that the country recorded less 3,950 accidents, less 921 deaths and a decrease of 3,168 wounded in 2016 compared to 2015. The Commissioner-General …
The World Bank approved today a $150 million International Development Association credit for Transport Sector Improvement Project (TSIP) in Ghana. It will help improve regional connectivity in the Northern Region involving rehabilitation of road links from Tamale to Yendi and Tatale on the Eastern border with Togo, and about 200km …
KIGALI Rwanda (Xinhua) -- The Rwandan government and the World Bank on Monday signed a financing agreement worth of 81 million U.S. dollars for the reconstruction of the 66.5-km road network in Rwanda. The credit provided under International Development Association (IDA) is expected to support Rwanda’s transport sector under the …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday put an end to the controversy surrounding the ‘Girivalam’ road-widening project, by concluding that the expansion proposal cannot be deemed illegal or against the preservation of nature. However, the tribunal imposed certain conditions, reducing the width of the proposed roads and forbidding the …
Herald report makes activists sit up and take note of Govt's 'haphazard' planning VASCO: Following a report that appeared in Herald highlighting that 600 trees have been identified by the PWD which may be felled to widen NH17A connecting Cortalim to Vasco via Chicalim, environmentalists and green activists along with …
Small and medium-scale agriculture is responsible for 80 percent of the deforestation between 2001 and 2015. According to experts of the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) controlling the deforestation will be difficult because “it is everywhere and in small patches.” Peru lost more than 1 million hectares of …
KOLKATA: Alarmed by the uprooting of 23 full-grown trees in Saturday evening's 60-second squall, botanists, environmentalists and ecologists have called for a tree management plan to save the city's greenery, which is facing rapid depletion threat. Green experts seem unanimous in their view that human factors cause most trees to …
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis tweeted that the coastal road had received the final environment clearance from the Centre. Mumbai finally came closer to its dream of a coastal road skirting the Arabian Sea from South Mumbai to the western suburbs, with the union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) clearing …
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a $ 200 million International Development Association (IDA) credit under the IDA17 Scale-up Facility for Zambia to improve selected rural roads in six of Zambia’s ten provinces. Government will finance the remaining four provinces. According to the Rural Access Index, only …
Kenya has abandoned its annuity roads financing model citing inflated costs and the slow pace of project approvals despite support from the World Bank. Transport Secretary James Macharia said contractors frustrated the programme, which the Jubilee administration had initially said would add an additional 10,000 kilometres of medium-grade urban and …
In a bid to decongest the main roads of Goa, the state government has decided to set up dedicated corridors in next three years for the transportation of iron ore from the mining leases to the jetties. "The project of mining corridors is huge. We will require minimum three years …
MUMBAI: Around 31,000 trees will have be chopped in a stretch of 91km, which is part of the 366km stretch of the NH66 Mumbai-Goa highway, which is to be widened into four lanes. A sum of Rs 6.6 crore will have to be spent on removing trees, which are obstacles …
