Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
What is the background to the dispute and, going beyond the political rhetoric in both states, who are the parties actually affected by it? In line with the Supreme Court’s order in January, the Ministry of Water Resources last week notified the setting up of a Tribunal to resolve the …
Agriculture Minister says a very few of them are related to farming Though 10 farmers have committed suicide in various parts of Chhattisgarh in the last two weeks, the State claims that a very few of these suicides were related to farming. According to Chhattisgarh Kisan Mazdoor Sangh, an umbrella …
The drinking water will be supplied to Raipur city after the completion of Raipur Mahanadi Main Canal Project, officials stated. The State Government has sanctioned amount of Rs26.73 crore for the lining works and head and cross Regulator of Raipur Mahanadi Main Canal Project. Moreover, about 2000 hectares of acreage …
With the summer season just two months ahead, the State Government has already started reviewing all ongoing water supply projects in the State. Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand reviewed the status of different water supply projects and issued directives accordingly in a meeting of Water Resources Utilisation Committee held here at …
Eighteen hospitals in Chhattisgarh, including AIIMS, have been issued show cause notice for non-compliance of rules of bio medical waste and thus causing health and environmental hazards. The notices, by the Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board, were issued after the hospitals were found violating the prescribed rules for disposal of bio-medical …
In a significant decision which is set to provide much needed relief to the construction industry in Chhattisgarh, the State-level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) of Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) granted environment clearances to 26 more sand mines located in different parts of the State on Wednesday. According to …
New Delhi: India has reported its first case of vaccine derived polio virus (VDPV) infection of 2012. A five-monthold child from the Murshidabad district of West Bengal has got infected with the virus after taking the oral polio vaccine. This, however, does not threaten India’s recently World Health Organisation (WHO) …
Solar electricity lights the maximum number of villages in Chhattisgarh—but barely so. Tucked away in the Barnawapara wildlife sanctuary of Chhattisgarh is a small village, Deba. The national power grid is yet to reach there. But there is no interruption in the scheduled power supply to its 75 households. While …
Tucked away in the Barnawapara wildlife sanctuary of Chhattisgarh is a small village, Deba. The national power grid is yet to reach there. But there is no interruption in the scheduled power supply to its 75 households. While power cuts are frequent in grid-connected villages across the state, the only …
