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Meghalaya HC Directs State to Implement SC, NGT Orders on Illegal Rathole Coal Mining
30 May 2022
Miners continue to use the dangerous and illegal process of mining despite a National Green Tribunal ban in 2014.
Ayaskant Das
Incremental Dilution of India's Environment Regulatory Regime for Benefit of Corporates?
26 Apr 2022
The MoEF&CC has been regularly undertaking policy reforms in the environment through office orders and memoranda despite having been rapped on its knuckles by courts in the past.
Tikender Singh Panwar
Shimla no Exception Among Non-Starter Smart Cities
05 Mar 2022
The smart city projects are a big failure, and even the government is realising this. There was hardly any mention in the Union Budget on the once much advertised plan.
Ayaskant Das
Mamata Banerjee’s Govt not Identifying Owner of Illegal Resort in Sunderbans
10 Feb 2022
Funds from the centrally-sponsored MGNREGA scheme were allegedly used in the construction of an illegal ‘eco-tourism’ resort in the ecologically fragile Sunderbans
Seema Sharma
Uttrakhand: Local Agitations And Disasters Hit Hard Already Delayed Yamuna Dam Project
29 Dec 2021
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the first week of December inaugurated the 120 MW Vyasi Hydro Electric Project (HEP), the first run of the river project on the main Yamuna river basin in Dehr
Sabrang India
Dhinkia: A Story of Perseverance Against Administrative Oppression
29 Dec 2021
Faced with continuous conflicts, villagers remind authorities of their forest and legal rights.
Ayaskant Das
Has Meghalaya Govt Failed to Curb Illegal Stone Mining?
19 Dec 2021
Illegal Mining of stones and boulders in Meghalaya is alienating tribal communities and ravaging the environment of the northeastern hill state.
Raja Muzaffar Bhat
NGT Comes to the Rescue of Kashmir’s Doodh Ganga
24 Oct 2021
DR RAJA MUZAFFAR BHAT writes about the extensive pollution of the Doodh Ganga river in Kashmir caused by government agencies over the last several years, and the government’s failure to even…
D. Raghunandan
Designed to Kill? Why Go-Ahead for 7 Hydel Projects in Uttarakhand is Malafide
03 Sep 2021
The Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEFCC) last week filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court conveying that it has now given the go-ahead for seven controversial hydro-elect
Raja Muzaffar Bhat
When Wetlands Become Wastelands in J&K
28 Jul 2021
Following a petition regarding the dumping of municipal waste in the wetlands of J&K, the NGT cited non-compliance of a Supreme Court order in MK Balakrishnan and others VS Union of India.