Vadodara A delegation of Ankleshwar Industries Association (AIA) has urged Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar to review the status of the industrial zone, which currently falls under the 'critically polluted' zone. The industrial zone in Bharuch district, around 100 kms away from here, was earmarked under "critically polluted" category by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in 2010. Secretary of AIA Jashubhai Chaudhary told PTI that a delegation met Javdekar yesterday i...Read More

Bharuch Industries are not granted environment clearance to set up a new unit or for expansion of existing unit in industrial towns Ankleshwar and Panoli in central Gujarat as the Environment department, Government of India has declared this area as critically polluted zone. On visit to Bharuch which is district headquarters, union minister of environment and forests Prakash Javdekar was asked by reporters about whether the government intends to lift the moratorium and when actually. ...Read More

New Delhi The government will bring amendments to five key environment laws enacted between 1971 and 1986 in the Budget Session of Parliament, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said today. These laws which were reviewed by a four-member panel headed by former Cabinet Secretary T S R Subramanian are the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollutio...Read More

New Delhi Environment Ministry has approved maximum number of 55 projects in BJP-ruled Gujarat followed by and Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra since the NDA government came to power at the Centre. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said that two hundred and fourty one projects have been accorded green clearance during the tenure of present government. "Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has accorded environment clearance to 241 projects du...Read More

Gandhinagar, 20 November 2014 Union Minister for Environment and Forest Prakash Javdekar will be in Gujarat capital on Friday to attend Wastech International Summit and Expo. A newly developed XGN software of Gujarat Pollution Control Board(GPCB) will be launched on this occasion. Through XGN software, industrial units will be able to file applications and receive online clearances. Reports of discharged water and air samples will also be available online throu...Read More

Gandhinagar, 5 March 2014 Following are the points that BJP leader Prakash Javdekar raised in Gandhinagar today while addressing media persons here. Javdekar was here to address the state BJP media workshop. -Congress is spitting venom against Narendra Modi because the issues of poor, backwards and governance are no more in its hand. -With Ram Vilas Paswan, Udit Raj and Ramdas Athwale etc favoring BJP, Dalit leadership is also aligned with the BJP, the party that...Read More

20 August, 2011 BJP's national spokesperson Prakash Javdekar addresses a press conference at BJP headquarter in New Delhi slamming the central government on the issue of corruption and Lokpal. Read More