Jambughoda: The State Board for Wildlife (SBWL) has decided to temporarily suspend the plan to remove aging mining waste from the eco-sensitive zone within the Jambughoda Sanctuary. The decision was prompted by a matter of contention raised by SBWL member Rohit Vyas. Vyas emphasized that a two-member committee, established back in 2014, had initially recommended the removal of debris solely from a 64-hectare area within the total expanse of 211 hectares. Vyas pointedly highlighted that the lo...Read More

Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has directed the Forest Department to conduct an Environment Impact Assessment for both ongoing and planned major projects within the state's sanctuary areas. Within this context, he emphasized the need for environmental impact studies to be conducted in forest sanctuary areas for projects such as railway lines, underground pipelines, and optical fiber networks. These instructions were issued by him during the 22nd meeting of the State Board for ...Read More

Jamnagar: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Gujarat for the development of mangrove forest in around 3500-acre area of Marine National Park under the Central Government’s MISHTI (Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes) scheme. In the presence of Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, and Labour and Employment Shri Bhupender Yadav and Jamnagar and Dwarka Lok Sabha MP Smt. Poonamben Mad...Read More

Vadodara: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) sent closure notices to 6 industrial units in Nandesari GIDC and ordered MGVCL to cut their electricity connections for allegedly polluting the water of Mini River. MGVCL cut the electricity connections of Jaitik International, Link Pharma chem, Megha Dychem, Shakti Ammonia, Panoli intermediate unit 3, and unit 1 to 8. GPCB sent a closure notice to them last week for a breach of environmental norms. The managers of the company had asked MGVCL for...Read More

અમદાવાદ: અમદાવાદ મ્યુનિસિપલ કોર્પોરેશન શહેરના ગ્રીન કવર વિસ્તારને 15% સુધી લઈ જવાના લક્ષ્યાંક માટે અમદાવાદ શહેરમાં અત્યાર સુધીમાં કુલ 104 જેટલા ઓક્સિજન પાર્ક કોર્પોરેશન દ્વારા નિર્માણ કરાય�...Read More

Sabarmati: The city will get another oxygen park by the Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC). Marking World Environment Day on June 5th, Chief Minister Shri Bhupendra Patel will lay the foundation stone for the oxygen park at Tragad. The oxygen park spans over 24,270 square metres, and the civic body is going to plant approximately 75,000 trees using the 'Miyawaki' method. 7,500 trees will be planted in the park on June 5th. The park will offer various attractions for visitors. It will feature...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Kalol court, in a verdict of a case, filed 27 years ago, has sentenced the partners of a chemical company in Kalol GIDC to two-year imprisonment and a Rs 10 thousand fine for releasing polluted water without permission. Bharat Petrochemical Corporation, located in the Kalol GIDC area, had been releasing 500 litres of polluted water daily without purification, which was produced during the production process of white oil and solvent using kerosene, diesel, and sulfuric acid as...Read More

By Japan K Pathak, New Delhi/Panipat: Petrol that you purchase from petrol pumps for your vehicle has 10 per cent portion of Ethanol mixed in it. This Ethanol is domestically produced and therefore the import bill on that much of petrol is saved for the country. The Government of India has plans to increase the proportion of Ethanol in petrol to 20 per cent by 2025. It will save 20 percent import bill on import of crude oil. While country is gearing up to achieve this target, it is also adopting...Read More

Ahmedabad: 672 textile processing units will resume operations in October as the new Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP) will be operational from the first week of next month. These units in Behrampura and Danilimda were closed nine months ago due to pollution issues. A senior official of GPCB told the media that these units were shut down because they did not have CEPT, now after the CEPT work is complete, member units can start production after getting consolidated consent and authorisa...Read More

Jetpur: The work of establishing a caustic recovery, reuse, and purification plant at Jetpur in Rajkot district at a cost of Rs 150 crore is about to be completed. Jetpur town in Rajkot district, famous for the colorful cotton sari industry, faced the issue of polluted and chemical mixed water released from the dyeing units. As per the orders of the National Green Tribunal and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), the release of chemical mixed water from all the dyeing units of the dying ...Read More