Amending environmental norms will accelerate ecological crisis in the Himalayas ‘WITHDRAW DRAFT EIA NOTIFICATION 2020’: 50+ organisations, environmentalists from Himalayan region write to Environment Ministry More than 50 environmental groups, organisations, eminent ideologues and activists from across various states of the Himalayan region have issued a joint statement titled ‘STOP ACCELERATING ECOSYSTEMS DISTRESS IN THE […]
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 […]
March 21, 2018 To, Smt Manisha Nanda Addl. Chief Secy. cum Principal Secy. to the Chief Minister (Environment Science & Technology, Information & Public Relation, Tourism & Civil Aviation) Government of Himachal Pradesh Dear Mam, We are writing to you on the Day of Action for Rivers across the world on behalf of the concerned […]
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 […]
Himachal Pradesh a mountain state in Indian Himalaya, covering an area of over fifty five thousand square kilometres, has 5 major river basins Satluj, Ravi, Beas, Chenab and Yamuna. Yamuna crosses only the south-eastern border of the state, and but its tributaries originating in Himachal include Giri and Tons which form a part of the […]
5 June 2014, On the occasion of World Environment Day, two groups, Him Parivesh and Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, released a Report on Industrial Pollution in the BBN (Baddi barotiwala Nalagarh) Industrial Area. The report is a compilation of issues raised at a Public hearing organised two months ago, i.e on 5th April 2014 […]
Press Release: 18th August 2010 On 22nd May 2010 members of the Him Parivesh, a local environment action group based in Nalagrh, with the help of Community Environment Monitoring, a Chennai based group working on pollution, took an Air Sample in the BBN area to detect the level of VoCs or Volatile Organic Compounds […]
Press Note 23rd May 2010 Community Environment Monitoring Training The unprecedented air and water pollution in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalgarh Industrial area has been in the news since the last few years. Recently, the industrial hub, dominated by chemical and pharma companies, has today been identified as a pollution hot spot even by the Ministry of Enviornment […]