By Amita Bhaduri, Ritika Gupta
The Union Budget 2021 is touted to be the mother of all budgets since it comes when the country is grappling its way out of the pandemic. In pursuit of tackling the immediate emergency posed by Covid-19, the actions to address the growing climate emergency took a backseat. With the Conference of Parties – COP 26 rescheduled for later this year and India’s Biennial Annual Report – BUR 3 on the anvil, the Budget is riding on a lot of expectations to deliver on the environment front.
Dr Simi Mehta, CEO at IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, while formally inaugurating the panel discussion titled, ‘Environment & Budget 2021: Business as Usual?‘, organized by Impact and Policy Research Institute – IMPRI and India Water Portal, coined a few pertinent questions to be addressed during the ensuing discussion. She questioned whether there is anything remarkable in the Budget 2021, whether it yields anything substantial for the country’s fi
HC orders CBI probe into elephant poaching incidents
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Court says the network involved is cutting across boundaries
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Court says the network involved is cutting across boundaries
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into a series of elephant poaching incidents reported in the State. Most of the incidents took place in a decade prior to 2015 and allegedly involved influential persons.
A Division Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and N. Sathish Kumar observed that the crimes indicated that the network involved was cutting across boundaries. This was not a mere case of poaching, but a demand was created by customers and the names would tumble out after the investigation.
CBI probe ordered into elephant poaching
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Incidents took place for over a decade prior to 2015
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Incidents took place for over a decade prior to 2015
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered a CBI probe into a series of elephant poaching incidents reported in the State. Most of them took place for over a decade prior to 2015 and allegedly involved influential persons from across the country.
A Division Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and N. Sathish Kumar observed that the crimes indicated that the network involved cut across boundaries. This was not a mere case of poaching, but a demand was created by unknown customers and these names would tumble out after the investigation.
The Centre on Monday earmarked a separate Rs 2,217 crore for 42 urban centres to tackle air pollution and announced the much-awaited voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and polluting vehicles, even as it shrunk the budgetary allocation for the environment ministry from the last fiscal by nearly eight percent. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech for 2021-22, announced a total of Rs 2869.93 crore for the ministry, Rs 230 crore less than the last fiscal. Officials said the outlay has been lesser this time as the economy is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Centre almost doubled the amount allotted to National Coastal Mission from Rs 103 crore in the last fiscal to Rs 200 crore in 2021-22, the allocation for the climate change action plan has been reduced from Rs 40 crore to Rs 30 crore and for Project Tiger from Rs 300 crore to Rs 250 crore.
Srinagar Jan 30 : On a specific information provided by New Delhi-based Wild Life Crime Control Bureau, a team of J&K Police, CRPF and officials of the