Water Resources

Measuring the impact of West Bengal drinking water sector improvement project: a baseline study

This paper analyzes the impact of a project intended to provide safe, sustainable, and inclusive drinking water to over 1.65 million people in West Bengal’s Bankura, North and South 24 Parganas, and Purba Medinipur districts. Access to safe drinking water is a fundamental right of people.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2020
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Drinking Water, Water Supply, Sanitation, West Bengal
Industry

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding brick fields in West Bengal, 05/11/2020

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bengal Brick Field Owner’s Association Vs West Bengal Pollution Control Board dated 05/11/2020.

The NGT in its order of August 6, 2020 had directed the CPCB and the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) to carry out a carrying capacity study in the state with specific preference to areas where the brick fields are concentrated within a period of three months. But the report has not yet been filed.

Judgement Date: 
05/11/2020
Tags:
Bricks, West Bengal, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Industrial Pollution, Carrying Capacity
Mining

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal stone mining in Jharkhand and West Bengal, 01/10/2020

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ramchandra Mardi & Others Vs West Bengal Pollution Control Board & Others dated 01/10/2020.

Judgement Date: 
01/10/2020
Tags:
Stone Industry, Mining, West Bengal, Jharkhand, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Compensation
Environment

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding noise pollution, West Bengal, 04/09/2020

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Subhash Datta vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 04/09/2020.

Judgement Date: 
04/09/2020
Tags:
Noise Pollution, West Bengal, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Noise Pollution Control
Industry

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal operation of a brick kiln in village Khamarchak, district Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, 04/09/2020

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Tapan Kanti Bera Vs West Bengal Pollution Control Board & Others dated 04/09/2020.

The matter related to illegal operation of a brick kilns in village Khamarchak, district Purba Medinipur, West Bengal in violation of the directions of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) dated June 27, 2017. All brick kilns were directed to convert to induced draft brick kiln (zig-zag brick setting). It was stated that the brick kiln had given a false impression that it had closed down, when actually it was not.

Judgement Date: 
04/09/2020
Tags:
Bricks, West Bengal, Industrial Pollution, Medinipur (D), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Compensation
Water Resources

Ground water year book of West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands (2019-2020)

In West Bengal, ground water level monitoring is being carried out by Central Ground Water Board, Eastern Region from 1500 Ground Water Monitoring Wells covering all districts of West Bengal encompassing various hydrogeological and agro-climatic zones during the month of April, 2019, August, 2019, November, 2019 and January, 2020.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2020
Central Ground Water Board
Tags:
Groundwater, Groundwater Recharge, West Bengal, A & N Islands
Water Pollution

Report on timely completion of sewage treatment plants to control pollution of river Ganga, 11/08/2020

Updated status report filed by the Central Pollution Control Board before the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others in Original Application No. 200/2014.

Judgement Date: 
11/08/2020
Tags:
Ganga, River Pollution, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), West Bengal, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Compensation, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Sewage Pollution
Industry

Report by WBPCB on Saraf Silicates, Nimakalali, district, Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal, 06/11/2019

Affidavit on behalf of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) in the matter of Suryaprakash Rawat Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 06/11/2019. The issue relates to pollution by M/s Saraf Silicates located at Nimakalali Road, village and P.O. Barakar, P.S. Kulti, District Paschim Bardhaman, Pin - 713324.

Judgement Date: 
31/07/2020
Tags:
Industrial Pollution, Industrial Waste, Air Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Barddhaman (D), West Bengal, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
Water Resources

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding waterbody encroachment in Sarbasukha Mouza, Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal, 11/06/2020

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ranjan Sarkar & Others Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 11/06/2020. The matter relates to environmental degradation of a doba (water body/lake) under Sarbasukha Mouza in the district of Paschim Medinipur that was being filled up illegally without having statutory clearances.

Judgement Date: 
11/06/2020
Tags:
Water Resources, Land Encroachments, Medinipur (D), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, West Bengal
Water Resources

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding encroachment of the East Kolkata Wetlands, Kolkata, West Bengal, 05/06/2020

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dhruba Das Gupta & Others Vs Ministry of Environment Forest & Climate Change & Others dated 05/06/2020 regarding encroachment of the East Kolkata Wetlands and operation of illegal industries within the area without the necessary statutory clearances.

Judgement Date: 
05/06/2020
Tags:
East Kolkata Wetlands, Industrial Pollution, Plastics, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Kolkata, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, West Bengal, Urban Encroachments

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