Bhavnagar: The officials who had ignored complaints by nature lovers about hundreds of flamingos being electrocuted daily as they flew into high tension wires swung into action after TOI reported the incident.
Officials of Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation Limited (GETCO) visited the 300-hectare marsh on the outskirts of Bhavnagar on Sunday and camped there throughout the day.
GANDHINAGAR: In a major SOP to Gujarat farmers, the state government on Wednesday announced that it will give a much higher compensation to 86,000 cultivators whose land is being acquired for Narmada canal network. This is based on the new jantri rate plus 30 per cent solatium.
Even as Environmental Appraisal Committee (EAC) constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) placed a report before the Supreme Court on Tuesday recommending relocation of Nirma Ltd's cement plant at Mahuva, agitating farmers in the region have welcomed the report of the expert body.
"The MoEF's report is in favour of farmers and in environment.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that a cement plant of Nirma Industries in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat is located in an ecologically sensitive wetland area situated next to the natural habitat of Asiatic lions.
The ministry said that the plant has to be re-located immediately.
MoEF has accepted these recommendations of the Expert Committee on the controversial cement plant of Nirma Industries in Bhavnagar, Gujarat. Says that the plant is situated in an environmentally sensitive wetland area and the construction must stop.
GANDHINAGAR: The decision of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to come up with a nuclear plant along Saurashtra sea coast is likely to suffer a setback.
AHMEDABAD: At least 29 lions, including 10 cubs, have died in the past eight months since the census April last year. The state government said this replying to Porbandar MLA Arjun Modhwadia's query in the assembly on Wednesday.
The three-day lion census was held in the state from April 24, which found 411 lions in Gir and its surrounding areas.
