Unfinished tannery relocation in Bengal is typical of many MoEF projects, says CAG in its first-ever environment audit

A major environmental project initiated in south-east Kolkata relocating more than 500 tanneries in an integrated leather complex spread over 1,100 acres has failed to take off even after 12 years of its initiation, though more than Rs 135 crore has been spent already.

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has been implementing an ambitious programme of pollution abatement of rivers in India. It started in 1985 with the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) and gradually extended to other polluted rivers through National River Conservation Plan (NRCP).

The Union environment ministry has cleared the construction of a 9,900MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh made this announcement in Mumbai on Sunday and said that his department has prescribed 35 conditions and safety measures. The Union envi Nov.

The Bantala tanneries are posing a risk to the environment because of the failure of the state and the Centre to complete the construction of the common effluent treatment plant in the 12 years since work on the leather hub started, the CAG has said in a report.

A major step has been taken to make the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) drive to make the Buddha Nullah in Ludhiana pollution-free a success.

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Jorhat: A project sponsored by the central department of science and technology at Assam Agricultural University (AAU) to explore the use of flyash in the agricultural sector has shown

The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has asked all sponge iron industries in the State to follow pollution control measures as per the norms set by the Ministry of Environment and Forests.

The KSPCB organised its first ever workshop on

Providing impetus:Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin giving away grant to CETPs in Tirupur on Sunday.

COIMBATORE: The State Government had made a series of efforts to find a permanent solution to the effluent problem in Tirupur, Deputy Chief Minister M.K.

Nangal: National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) released seeds of catla fish into the Sutlej yesterday to compensate for losses caused to the flora and fauna with it released industrial effluents into it recently. SDM Lakhmir Singh and NFL senior officials released the first batch of 35,000 catla fish seeds.

The highly toxic red sludge that has reached the famed river Danube after a reservoir holding industrial waste burst in Hungary is a major environmental disaster, exposing major weaknesses in the European Union's environment protection regime.

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