Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 14, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Village in Tadoba Andhari reserve wants forest titles, not relocation
Maharashtra government distributes Rs 25,000 cheques, claims relocation has resumed
47 power plants in Vidarbha
Why set up thermal plants when the region is power surplus?
Village bullied for using its forest
Forest department registers offence against a gram sabha for felling bamboo clusters
Betrayal via bamboo
Largest paper manufacturer is using most of the bamboo in Maharashtra, leaving little for residents
Maharashtra villages agitate for share from forest produce
Stall auction of produce from the forests they protect under joint forest management programme; forest department owes them Rs 85 lakh
Happily uprooted
A well-calculated compensation plan eases relocation pain of forest dwellers from the core area of Melghat Tiger Reserve
Maharashtra to allow coal mines closer to rivers
Relaxation of river zone regulation law will damage rivers and even mines, say environmentalists
India’s SO2 emissions up by 71 per cent in 5 years, shows US study
'CPCB underestimating pollution from coal-fired thermal power plants'
Angry Vidarbha farmers vote for BJP
Congress loses its bastion for failing to implement poverty alleviation schemes and inadequate disaster relief for farmers in distress
Green tribunal seeks details on radiation from thermal power plants
People opposing expansion of Koradi thermal plant near Nagpur furnish evidence on high radiation from coal-fired plants
Letters
Bamboo rising
Five years after it was implemented, the Forest Rights Act finally takes root. Communities across the country rush to claim rights over forests …