-PTI NEW DELHI: India's economic development has led to the worsening of air quality in major Indian cities, according to the results of a survey by The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai. The transport sector was ranked the highest followed by factories in and around the city as the second highest contributor towards air Pollution in Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai. While respondents from Bangalore...
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80% think Delhi’s environment got worse in last 5 years: Survey
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: An environment survey carried out across six metropolitan cities by The Energy and Resources Institute has found that while 80% of the respondents in Delhi believe that the overall environment in the city has deteriorated in the past five years, the capital also sets the record for being the most ill-informed across the metros about government policies on environment. Teri interviewed 1,114 respondents in Delhi NCR...
More »IIT-K called in for detailed study on city Pollution -Apurva
-The Indian Express Concerned about rising levels of air Pollution in the city, the Delhi government has commissioned IIT-Kanpur to conduct a comprehensive study of Pollution levels and causes. The government plans to use data to formulate a policy to control and reduce air Pollution, and initiate a second-generation air action plan. Commissioned last month, the IIT-K study will be the most comprehensive study since the 2007 Central Pollution Control Board and...
More »Shocking betrayal on Western Ghats
-The Hindu An open letter from Madhav Gadgil says Kasturirangan panel report will rob the region of its biodiversity Dear Dr. K. Kasturirangan, J.B.S. Haldane, the celebrated 19th-century scientist and humanist who quit England protesting its imperialistic invasion of Suez to become an Indian citizen, once said: "Reality is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we CAN suppose!" I could never have imagined that you would be party to a...
More »Tribals to bar entry of Seli hydro project officials in Himachal Pradesh -Anand Bodh
-The Times of India SHIMLA: With their protests having failed to impact power corridors of the state, tribals in Lahaul-Spiti, who are opposing the 400MW Seli hydro project on Chenab river, have now decided that no villager would rent their houses to project officials, and they will be barred from entering their villages. The protesters have called for a bandh in the tribal district on June 5. They said that felling...
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