Pune: It is curtains for Dow India

Madhya Pradesh will have Exit Policy for sick industries. In order to keep cities pollution-free, tehsil level waste processing industries would be encouraged for which special provisions would be made in the renewed Industry Policy.

This document prepared by Gandhi Peace Foundation, is a blueprint of the Himalayan People's Manifesto. The manifesto has been brought out with the help of various documents prepared by various people and organisations at different times. It will be finalised by the next Himalayan Day on September 9, 2011.

In an attempt to enforce the country

Presentation by Sunita Narain, Director of Centre for Science and Environment at the Plenary session of World Water Week at Stockholm on September 6, 2010. Focuses on decentralized wastewater management and says that localisation is the key &  calls for affordable and sustainable approaches to waste management.

SAMBALPUR: A recent reply from the Rengali Tehsil office to a query under RTI Act has opened a can of worms.

Having failed to get a response on the rampant pollution due to growing industrialisation in the block, Sarpanch of Rengali gram panchayat Laxmi Narayan Sahu had sought information on land acquired by the 10 industries besides land leased out for mining on July 26.

Ghaziabad: The heavy discharge of industrial effluents has severely affected aquatic fauna at the Ramsar site, set up in River Ganga in 165 km stretch from Bijnore to Narora in Uttar Pradesh.

Ramsar sites are a tag for critical water bodies across the globe.

Priscilla Jebaraj

NEW DELHI: The Central government is attempting to drive the States' fight against pollution with a series of carrot-and-stick measures, many announced on Tuesday at a meeting of Pollution Control Boards.

After the devastating earthquake in 2001, Central and State Government have provided various incentives for rapid economic development of Kutch district. Mundra, one of the taluka of Kutch District, located on the bank of Northern Gulf of Kutch, having Mundra Port & Special Economic Zone, also witnessed the rapid industrial growth after 2001.

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