The inhabitants of Chursoo village in Pulwama district whose land has been acquired by the Government for widening of the Jammu-Srinagar Highway staged protest against the National Highway Authorit

The Empowered Committee headed by the Chief Secretary, Mohammad Iqbal Khandey, constituted for the implementation & monitoring of the Environment Management Plan of 850 MW Ratle HEP, held its meeting today to discuss the Environment Management Plan of Rs 262.35 crore, already approved by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and the State Government.

The Committee on Environment of Legislative Assembly held its meeting today.

Threadbare discussion was also held on muck disposal sites on the National Highway, implementation of labour laws in letter and spirit, dumping sites, effluent discharge from the STPs, water quality of Mara and Champari Nallas being affected due to flowing of untreated discharge of tunneling activities and noise level measured near the tunnel

Chairman, State Water Resources Regulatory Authority (SWRRA) and former Chief Secretary, S S Kapoor today chaired a high level meeting of Deputy Commissioners of various districts of Jammu division

Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora while presenting a comparison report of the measurements carried out by Sir Walter R.

Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) in its initiative under “Clean up Jammu” sanitation drive reached out to citizens residing in Ward number 53 and 54 covering Trikuta Nagar Sector 1 to 4, Basant Vihar, Bhawani Vihar, Laxmi Enclave, Khoo Walli Galli, Trikuta Nagar Sector 5 to 9 and Shiva Colony.

On spot assessment of the sanitary conditions and performance of other Municipal services was made and necessary instructions were issued for improvement of civic amenities.

High Court today asked the Government to file status report about the creation of 225 posts for closure of Watershed Development project to make functional the Wullar Conservation Management Author

Srinagar: While the forest officials claim that they have been doing “enough” to save forests from smugglers, the loot of green gold is rampant in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district.

People of Darsu area of the district today held a protest demonstration against the Municipal Corporation and administration against dumping of garbage in the area.

Amid slogans against the Government and the Municipal Corporation, large number of people of Darsu area assembled at Dhar Road and blocked the vehicular movement for couple of hours.

House Committee for Environment conducted an extensive tour of Langate, Handwara, Nowgam Reshwari and interacted with district and teshil administration about impact of the existing stone crushers