Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
The Irrigation department has decided to install stabilisers at 2,500 tubewells across the state to overcome the big fluctuations in the voltage of power supplied to rural areas. The decision was taken on Wednesday after the power corporation expressed its inability to check low voltage that is causing serious problems …
MIDNAPORE, 3 JULY: The dredging of canals of Keleghai-Kapaleswari-Bagui river scheme which had been held up for years is proceeding on a war footing. It is likely to be completed in three years. The state irrigation minister, Dr Manas Bhuniya, who had inspected the dredging work recently at several canals …
Says saline water from south-west Punjab may travel to other areas Chandigarh: Waterlogging in south-west Punjab could jeopardise food grain production with an expert group led by Planning Commission member Mihir Shah claiming that saline water from waterlogged areas could travel to central parts of the state through continuous aquifers. …
Waterlogging and secondary salinisation have become serious problems in canal irrigated areas of arid and semi-arid regions. This study examined hydrology and estimated the seasonal net groundwater recharge of an irrigated semi-arid region located in the Haryana State of India where about 500 000 ha area are waterlogged and unproductive, …
This article is a systematic documentation and analysis of events that motivated development of irrigation in Madras Presidency in general and Krishna district in particular. In Krishna district, when the anicut was built in 1855, the phase-wise excavation of canals determined the phases of development of irrigation (1855-1900; 1900-1965 and …
A price increase and improvement in the terms of trade of agriculture after 2004-05 have revived agriculture in Uttar Pradesh. The performance, however, has varied across regions within the state and among crop groups. Price policies in favour of cereals discourage land diversification, but rising agricultural wages induce shifts in …
JAIPUR: Farmers have been sitting on a demonstration since May 10 to protest against the alleged theft of water from canal flowing from Haryana and Punjab to Sriganganagar and Hanumangarah districts in Rajasthan. They alleged that theft of water from the canals had affected their agriculture activities badly. "We are …
Muktsar: With the Irrigation Department stopping water supply to Arniwala minor without any prior announcement, a large number of paddy growers in the district are in trouble. They are now facing a shortage of water to transplant paddy saplings in their fields. The department stated that the supply had been …
Fatehabad: Standing crops on hundreds of acres of agriculture land were submerged under water due to a breach - third in the past one month - in the Munshiwala Minor near Shehnal and Hamzapur villages here today. Officials of the Irrigation Department have been trying to plug the breach with …
Farmers dependent on Sason Canal for irrigation water have been left in the lurch. The canal under Hirakud Dam Reservoir (HDR) has failed to discharge water for the third consecutive day on Sunday. As per reports, every year water is released through the Sason canal on June 15 to facilitate …
Mumbai: With no sign of the monsoon, water levels in the lakes that supply drinking water to Mumbai are running low forcing the government to consider diverting water meant for agriculture to the city. "Levels in the lakes which supply water to Mumbai are lowest in the past three years," …
LUCKNOW: To give an impetus to developing rural infrastructure, NABARD has sanctioned a loan of Rs 808 crore to the government of Uttar Pradesh for augmenting irrigation facilities to small and marginal farmers. The amount of Rs 808.95 crore, issued to the state under the current tranche of Rural Infrastructure …
LUCKNOW: Anticipating what farmers support could mean to Samajwadi Party in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Akhilesh government doled out sops worth Rs 5,432.37 crore for agriculture and allied activities to benefit the group. Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav also reiterated his government's commitment to scrap the old land acquisition …
GUWAHATI, June 1: The Assam Government often claims that it has achieved a lot in the field of agricultural development in the State. Though the State has seen some improvement in crop production, the irrigation sector, a main constituent in agricultural growth, is yet to be improved in the State. …
Pricing canal water for irrigation to recover the cost of supply as well as promote efficient water use is one of the most neglected but highly debated issues in Pakistan, particularly among the academia, donors and research organizations. A number of research studies have been undertaken on water pricing, hereafter …
The problem of water shortage in the city is expected to intensify on Wednesday as the issue of making the parallel lines of Munak canal operational touches the boiling point once again. The Munak canal has been a point of contention between Delhi and Haryana for long now. According to …
Union environment and forest ministry has objected to former Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati’s ambitious 147.8 km-long Upper Ganga Canal Expressway project, saying it involves 760 hectare of forest area. The ministry has questioned the purpose of the Rs 8,000 crore project. The Upper Ganga Canal has NH 58 parallel to …
Almost six years and Rs. 414 crore later, Delhi and Haryana are still wrangling over the Munak canal and the water that it was supposed to bring to the Capital. The impediments that got in the way included environmental clearances, monetary disagreements and bickering over how much water Haryana is …
GANDHINAGAR: A high-level committee of Government of India's (GoI's) finance ministry has cleared a proposal that would enable the Gujarat government to receive nearly 90 per cent of all funds over the new five-year plan, 2012-17, for completing the unfinished task of building canal network of the Sardar Sarovar Project …
MUMBAI: Unease continued between coalition partners, the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), as both countered each other on various issues, the latest being the performance of the state's irrigation department. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan took a dig at his deputy, Ajit Pawar, of the NCP. "Let them (Pawar and …
