-The Times of India CHANDIGARH: There is little chance of any let-up in air pollution in Punjab and the states of Delhi and Haryana post-Diwali as Punjab has expressed its inability to provide farmers money for alternative technology, citing lack of funds. Following a rebuke from National Green Tribunal (NGT) on paddy burning last week, a cash-starved Punjab government has told the Centre that it does not have the money to implement...
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Straw management: Punjab govt holds workshop, tells farmers not to burn stubble -Raakhi Jagga
-The Indian Express The state’s agriculture department has also sent a request to the Union Ministry of Agriculture to send them an immediate grant of Rs 1602 crore while the whole project is of Rs 11,000 crore. Ludhiana: WHEN almost 85 per cent of paddy in the area has been harvested already, the state Department of Agriculture is hurriedly conducting workshops on straw management across the state. The state’s agriculture department...
More »Diesel vehicle ban: UP govt plans to move SC against green tribunal order -Sarah Hafeez
-The Indian Express The UP government will challenge the NGT order on the grounds that the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act does not have a provision for deregistration of vehicles. New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government is planning to move the Supreme Court against the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order directing transport departments in the National Capital Region (NCR) to deregister and impound diesel vehicles older than 10 years. The UP government will challenge...
More »NGT order can put 70% of NCR's trucks off-roads -Rumu Banerjee
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal's order to deregister diesel vehicles older than 10 years in Delhi and NCR could take away 70 per cent of the goods carriage fleet of the capital and nearly 90 per cent of its private chartered buses. A day after the ruling, transport department officials were still coming to grips with the enormous impact the order was likely to have. "There are 1.28...
More »Letting them off easy -Manju Menon & Kanchi Kohli
-The Hindu In the newly proposed draft notification seeking to amend the Environment Impact Assessment, the Central government offers a way out to those who have violated environmental norms The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) has issued a draft notification seeking to amend the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) of 2006, allowing those who violate this law to continue work with an Environment Supplement Plan (ESP). This is the first...
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