In his bi-lingual booklet titled ‘Floods despite dams’ (‘Barh to phir bhi aayegi’), Dr. Dinesh Mishra of Barh Mukti Abhiyaan, an authority on the river network of north Bihar explodes the myth of embankments and hopes that the issue of floods will be widely debated. Floods in Bihar have acquired menacing proportions following the embanking of… Read More Floods despite dams
The head of a parliamentary standing committee on science and technology, environment and forests, Renuka Chowdhury has recently commented that the panel’s recommendations on forest fires are being ignored. The report titled ‘Forest fires and its effect on environment, forests, bio-diversity and wildlife and remedial/preventive measures’ presenting steps on mitigating forest fires had been submitted… Read More Fire in the forest
The Ministry of Environment and Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has on August 1, 2017, revised the guidelines to implement the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act 2016. The guidelines add new categories of costs that the project proponent is required to pay. Each time forest land is diverted for non-forest purposes whether it is for mining… Read More Forests get a new price tag
In a scathing report, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has revealed major problems in the execution of flood management programmes in India. The report titled Schemes for flood control and flood forecasting submitted in July 2017 highlights that flood management was not taken up in an integrated manner, i.e., covering the entire river or… Read More Flood forecasting full of lapses, says CAG report
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