-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday decided to rope in the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) to audit city's forest department and other civic agencies to find out how much money was generated by them from the permission granted to cut trees. A bench of Justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Ashutosh Kumar asked the national auditor to examine the accounts as it wants to know how...
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Not sure about data in foreign reports on Air pollution deaths: Environment Minister -Amitabh Sinha
-The Indian Express Government policies could not be framed solely on the findings of international reports, he maintained. EVEN AS he acknowledged that the health impacts of Air pollution were “real” and “dangerous”, Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave on Friday contested some of the numbers presented in a new global report, which has identified India as the worst affected country and attributed more than a million deaths in the country in...
More »In 2016 stubble was burnt in over 2L hectare land: HARSAC
-Outlook India According to the Hisar-based Haryana Space Applications Centre (HARSAC), the area in which stubble was burnt in 2016 was more than what it was in the previous two years and the same as 2013 Chandigarh: Stubble in over two lakh hectares of land was burnt last year in Haryana despite the state government cracking the whip on farmers who defied orders restricting the practice. Crop-residue burning had led to Air pollution...
More »NGT freezes govt move to ease construction norms -Jayashree Nandi
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal barred on Thursday any fresh constructions under the environment ministry's December 9 notification exempting real estate projects of all sizes from environment impact assessment and environmental clearance. The NGT has received two applications questioning legal issues with the December 9 notification, which even has a "self-declaration" clause that will ensure issuance of permission from urban local bodies. For larger projects of more...
More »India's Air pollution discourse needs to move beyond Delhi -Ragini Bhuyan
-Livemint.com We need a strategy to control Air pollution across north India, and better monitoring is the first requirement From the debate over Arvind Kejriwal’s odd-even policy to outrage over poisonous post-Diwali smog, India’s public discourse on Air pollution was centred in and around Delhi in 2016. This needs to change if we want to evolve an effective strategy to counter pollution. Before delving into the reasons for this, it might be...
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