One of the questions raised was the details of district-wise expenditure of crores of rupees being provided by the World Bank for ‘Mid Himalayan Projects’ in 2013-14 in Himachal Pradesh.

In a commendable initiative, villagers of three panchayats in Pali have come together and unanimously agreed to form a community reserve to protect the leopard.

To be launched on May 1, works taken up for creation of facilities

2,000 panchayats to be covered in Phase I in State

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Cavelossim Villagers Forum Vs Village Panchayat of Cavelossim dated 08/04/2015 regarding Balaji Concept project at Cavelossim.

According to the Original Applicant, the project would cause harm to water bodies, fishing ponds, channels and nullahs and therefore, a complaint was made to the authorities. An inspection was carried out on 11.2.2014, which clearly revealed such illegalities.

Contrary to Forest Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan’s claim, the state government has no clarity over which areas of the 123 Western Ghats villages are ecologically sensitive, widespread discre

Wadgaon Kohlati gram panchayat has filed a writ petition in the Aurangabad bench of Bombay high court after the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) refused to manage garbage from

The 30-month closure of mining operations has dented the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) bringing it down to 7.7 per cent during the financial year 2013-14, from 20.20 per cent in 2011-12, according to the Economic Survey 2014-15 tabled in the Goa Assembly on 24 March 2015.

Kerala may be the first State to have Biodiversity Management Committees (BMC) in all local self-government institutions, but most of the committees are not functional and remain only on paper, mai

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of M/s Deepak Construction Co. Vs Haryana State Pollution Control Board & Others dated 05/03/2015 regarding the functioning of a stone crushing unit at Tehsil- Narnaul, District Mahendergarh, Haryana.

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