The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday sought status reports from the central and state governments on the implementation of Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. Hearing a PIL on “improper and unscientific dumping” of solid and toxic waste and sewage in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial belt, a bench of Chief Justice L Narayana Swamy and Justice […]
People from Kinnaur staged a protest at Reckong Peo today seeking speedy implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) in the tribal areas of the state and to draw the attention of the government towards the growing threat to the ecology. The protesting members of the Zila Van Adhikar Sangharsh Samiti Kinnaur were joined by […]
हिंदी प्रेस नोट के लिए स्क्रॉल करें Press Note: 6 Dec 2019 | Villagers rise against Luhri II hydropower project: Reject half-baked Social Impact Assessment report at Public Hearing Residents of village Nanj of Karsog Tehsil, gathered at the Public hearing for SJVNL’s 172 megawatt Luhri II hydropower project at the local patwarkhana, termed the […]
In a travesty of the Forest Rights Act set up to protect indigenous communities, members of the Lippa tribal village in Himachal Pradesh are being denied individual forest rights. Text by Manshi Asher Photographs by Sumit Mahar Himachal Pradesh, a State where two-thirds of the landscape is categorised as forest and 90 per cent of […]
A Himalayan village’s struggle to assert its forest rights Manshi Asher 01 September 2019 Karam Sain led the way through the narrow paths of the temperate forest near the tribal village of Lippa, located in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. The cool May air was filled with the scent of dried chilgoza pine cones, […]
To The Chairperson Environmental Appraisal Committee Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change [IA-I Division] New Delhi Date: 24th January, 2019 Subject: Submission for the EAC’s upcoming discussion on the draft report of Satluj river basin’s Cumulative Impact Assessment and Carrying Capacity Study Respected Sir As the EAC schedules on discussing the draft report of […]
Even as the IMD issued the ‘red warning’ for Kangra for the weekend massive floods were triggered in the streams flowing from the Dhauladhar ranges owing to the heavy rains in the region. While many residents had the safety of their shelter, others were not so fortunate. Like the migrant workers who have made Himachal […]
वन अधिकार कानून देश में लागू हुए एक दशक से ज्यादा हो गया पर आज भी इस कानून को सरकारें ढंग से लागू नहीं कर रहीं हैं. एक तरफ हिमाचल जैसे राज्य हैं जहां इसका क्रियान्वयन बहुत धीमी गति से चल रहा है तो कई ऐसे राज्य हैं जहां लाखों दावे भरे गए हैं परन्तु […]
A Summary Note Even as we are at the end of the fifth decade of celebrating the World Environment Day, globally the environmental crisis continues to worsen. One of the solutions to mitigate the climate crisis and green house gas emissions adopted by countries including India has been shifting to renewable energy sources like Hydropower. […]
5 जून को विश्व पर्यावरण दिवस के उपलक्ष में शिमला प्रेस क्लब और हिमधरा प्रयावार्ण समूह ने मिल कर राजधानी में आधे दिन की मीडिया वर्कशॉप का आयोजन किया. वर्कशॉप में हिमालयी क्षेत्रों में पर्यावरणीय संकट पर गहराई में चर्चा हुयी जिसमें हिमधरा समूह की मांशी आशर और सुमित महर के साथ वरिष्ठ पत्रकार पी […]