Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
This paper describes what climate change is, including how it is affecting the world live in and the timeframe within which these changes are expected to happen. It then considers why climate change needs to be a priority in development planning, including the inequitable burden it places on the poor …
A number of dimensions and resources need to be converged for preparing a roadmap to sustainability. The most critical among these are technical know-how, human capital and financial resources. This document is an effort towards presenting a basic framework for the mobilization of these resources and dimensions. The document has …
The Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation is designed to assist policy makers and practitioners in implementing the right to water and sanitation. This publication addresses the vital need to clarify how human rights can be practically realised in the water and sanitation sector. The manual demonstrates that …
The State Planning Commission will recommend the formation of a Water Resources Management Authority in Tamil Nadu, Vice-Chairman M. Naganathan, said on Friday. "Rejuvenating the agriculture sector will be the priority of the XI Plan (2007-2012). Efficient use of available water resources is of vital importance, as Tamil Nadu is …
Water has become a bone of contention between Haryana and Delhi. While the Delhi administration alleges that Haryana has reduced water supply to the national Capital, Haryana claims that it has been supplying Delhi water much in excess of its share in the Yamuna waters. A spokesman of the Haryana …
Taps in the metropolis went dry on Wednesday for the first time in over a century owing to scheduled repair work being carried out by the civic body on the pipelines bringing water to the city. It is for the first time that the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) …
The Uttar Pradesh Petroleum Traders Association (UPPTA) continued their State-wide strike for the second day on Wednesday, as talks with the government to reduce taxes on diesel and petrol failed. ''We have talked to Principal Secretary Food and Civil Supplies Sudhir Kumar but it did not yield any results. We …
Attempts by DJB officials to get the requisite raw water for Sonia Vihar may have been drawing flak, however, now the utility is about to sign a MoU with U.P. for release of 300 cusecs of raw water required for the plant to function optimally.
Farmer suicides in Vidarbha have raised a chorus of demand for Central relief package from Maharashtra Government. But successive State Governments have simply not accorded priority to irrigation for the water-starved region. The State is yet to act on over a dozen projects cleared by the Union Government since 1992. …
Delhi and UP locked horns over Sonia Vihar again. Four months after UP cut supply to 140-MGD water treatment plant, the two states have still not been able to sign an MoU. In another meeting called by power secretary R Y Shahi, officials from UP and Delhi will once again …
Delhi University has developed a technology to wipe out dangerous weed Lantana Camara, which has created havoc across the country invading millions of acres of deserted landscapes. The Centre for Environment Management of Degraded Ecosystem (CEMDE), under the School of Environment Studies in DU, made the discovery after a three-year-long …
Water supply in the capital has been hit hard due to high ammonia level twice as prescribed by the central Pollution Control Board in Upper Yamuna. The water treatment in Wazirabad and Chandrawal Plants has been reduced by 40 percent Owing to the high ammonia levels.
People living in flats will have to pay sewage cess separately from the New Year. At present, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Swerage Board is including sewage cess in the water bill of the apartment complex as a whole. This accounts for about 35 percent of the bill. However, …
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) admitted that water leakage did occur through its pipes during supply and distribution, but it could not ascertain the percentage of water loss in the process. In an affidavit filed recently in the Delhi High Court, the DJB said, "It is correct that water is …
India's large water infrastructure is crumbling and shortfalls in financing have led to an enormous backlog of maintanance, according to the World Bank. Within the next 13 years, India's demand for water will exceed all its sources of supply, it said.
An hefty package of Rs. 385 crores is being incurred for improving drinking water, sewerage and drainage systems in the twin capitals of Jammu and Kashmir by the Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA). The approved sanction of Rs 385 crore package to be expended under phase-I of Asian development Bank (ADB) …
