Demands Community Participation in making and implementation of action plans for restoration; Moratorium on industrial expansion in Baddi The Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, a Himachal based watch dog group has appealed to the River Rejuvenation Committee and the Special Environment Surveillance Task Force to urgently look into the issues facing the Sirsa River […]
Residents of Malpur-Sandholi form ‘Paryavarn Sangharsh Samiti’ to take action on Pollution issues Illegal Dumping at Kenduwal continues; BBNDA was to set up 9.7 crore solid waste facility: Samiti The residents of villages under two Panchayats Malpur and Sandholi, came together to form a local platform called ‘Paryavaran Sangharsh Samiti’, to fight for the right […]
What is an open dumping yard in reality is – on paper – an ‘integrated solid waste management facility’ for which a local authority has received clearance from the environment ministry. Globally, environmental racism has been about the trash of over-consuming rich countries finding its way to the into the backyards of the poorest nations’ […]
A report by Manshi Asher and Sumit Mahar Last month, on October 14th, around noon, there was a massive fish kill in the Sirsa River at Sitalpur, in Baddi, Solan district. Locals of the area who witnessed the event sent in these photographs and video of hundreds of dying rohu. Photo and Video Credit: Pawan Bhardwaj, Baddi […]
Concerned over the issue of toxicity and varying nature of the effluents let-off by various industrial units in the Baddi-Barotiwala industrial area by the 990 industries, a local NGO Himparivesh today expressed concern whether the Rs 56.80-crore Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) being set up under the Public-Private-Partnership mode would address this critical issue effectively. […]