The expert panel set up by the government to formulate the State’s response to the report of the Kasturirangan committee on the conservation of the Western Ghats is considering an economic compensation programme to protect the interests of farmers in the villages named Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs).
Committee formulating response to Kasturirangan report
The Wayanad Prakruthi Samrakshana Samiti, an environmental organisation in the district, has urged the government to reject the recommendations of the Oommen V. Oommen Committee constituted to formulate the State’s response to the Kasturirangan committee report on the conservation of the the Western Ghats.
Draft report: Multiple Dams in tribal belt of Western Ghats for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region: Unjustified projects, when better options exist. About 12 dams are planned or are under construction to satisfy the increasing thirst of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). All of these dams fall in eco-sensitive region of the Western Ghats.
Mumbai: A dozen dams planned to provide water in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) will affect at least a lakh tribal people and submerge more than 22,000 hectares of land.
The forest department will launch a publicity and awareness campaign on the implemen- tation of the controversial report prepared by the Dr K Kasturirangan committee on conservation of Western Ghat
Kumaraswamy says government has failed to enlighten the people on Ghats report
The ongoing protests against the Kasturirangan committee’s report on the conservation of Western Ghats in Kerala could be driven by political and economic interests, and will affect the State’s prospects in the long run, according to B.M. Kumaraswamy, former member of the Western Ghats Task Force, Government of Karnataka.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) criticised the Uttar Pradesh government for failing to designate eco-sensitive zones (ESZ) around the Okhla Bird Sanctuary, in spite of being given time to do so.
A bench headed by Justice P Jyothimani directed UP government to send a proposal on ESZ around the sanctuary to the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), by January 3, 2014, the next date of hearing.
Read text of the National Green Tribunal order in the matter of Amit Kumar V/s. Union of India & Ors. dated 16/12/2013 regarding fixing the limits of Eco-Sensitive Area in respect of Okhla Bird Sanctuary.
Goa Minister for Forests Alina Saldanha has criticised the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), accusing it of trying to force the recommendations of the K.
PANJIM: The Goa government, has criticized the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), alleging that it is trying to force the recommendations of the K Kasturirangan-led working group on
