As told to Parliament (July 18, 2022): Final notification on eco-sensitive areas pending for 8 years
All that was discussed in the House through the day
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All that was discussed in the House through the day
MoEF&CC’s draft notification for declaring 20,668 sq km of ESZ in Karnataka faces tough resistance from local MLAs
The Environment Ministry on Friday notified yet another draft for demarking 46,832 sq km areas across five states sans Kerala as the Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA) of the Western Ghats, delayed by almost a decade much to the chagrin of the ...
Resentment is brewing among environmentalists and disaster management experts in Kerala as the ruling and Opposition parties are pushing for further relaxation in Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) despite the back-to-back calamities that the state has witnessed. Enough relaxations have been made in ESAs, and hence, further relaxations could be termed only as disastrous, and
Successive floods and landslides have hit the state since 2018. A expert committee had in 2012 recommended that the state declare districts in the Western Ghats ecologically sensitive