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Recently held 8th India Water Impact Summit (IWIS) & 1st Climate Investments and Technology Impact Summit (CITIS) were included in the G20 India events in 2023. India Water Impact Summit (IWIS) Launch – Though started as a one-time event in 2012, it evolved as an annual event since 2nd summit in 2017. Objective – To bring clarity to the scientific, technological, socio-cultural, legal, policy and governance issues pertaining to river basin management in India. Organised by National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) – The implementation wing of National Ganga Council which was setup in 2016 under the River Ganga Authority order 2016 under the aegis of Ministry of…
30 November, 2023
Environmental Impact Assessment
Recently, Supreme Court asked the Punjab government why it could not fund the costs of crop residue management machines for marginal farmers. Why stubble burning is practised? Also called as parali burning, stubble burning is a method of removing paddy crop residues from the field to sow wheat. It is usually done in the last week of September to November. It is usually required in areas that use the combined harvesting method which leaves crop residue behind. It is practised by the farmers to prepare the land for the next cultivation. It is practised mainly in the Indo-Gangetic plains of Punjab, Haryana, and UP to…
28 November, 2023
Environmental Impact Assessment
Continuous warm temperatures for prolonged periods have led to the serious armyworm infestation in Assam damaging around 28,000 hectares of paddy crop. Scientific name – Mythimna separata Also known as the northern armyworm, ear head cutting caterpillar and rice ear-cutting caterpillar. 1st report – Reported as a sporadic pest from Tamil Nadu during 1937 and Kerala and Odisha in 1957. Key features – It is a cyclical pest that comes intermittently and was known to strike once every 10-12 years. They are polyphagous (feed on a range of host crop plants like paddy and wheat mainly and also on maize, millets, sunflower, sugarcane and groundnut) Growing conditions – Pest population…
23 November, 2023
Environmental Impact Assessment
Interconnected Disaster Risk Report 2023, released by the academic arm of United Nations, reveals that 21 of the 37 world’s aquifers are depleting faster than they can be replenished. Interconnected Disaster Risk Report Launch year- 2021 Launched by- Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), the academic arm of UN Headquarters - Bonn, Germany Objective- To analyse and shed light on the interconnections of disasters with each other and with human actions. 2023 report- The world is inching closer to 6 interconnected risk tipping points. A risk tipping point is defined as the moment at which a given socio-ecological system is no longer…
04 November, 2023
Environmental Impact Assessment
Great Nicobar development plan and its environmental concerns- NITI Aayog Environment Appraisal Committee (EAC) on the plan The Environment Appraisal Committee (EAC) - of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has flagged serious concerns about NITI Aayog’s ambitious project for Great Nicobar Island The committee has, however, removed the first hurdle faced by the project. The EAC was responding to the 126-page ‘pre-feasibility’ report, ‘Holistic Development of Great Nicobar Island at Andaman and Nicobar Islands, prepared for the NITI Aayog by the Gurugram-based consulting agency Aecom India Private Limited. Proposals for the Great Nicobar plan The proposal…
10 May, 2021
Environmental Impact Assessment
Ken-Betwa project- environmental hazards Introduction Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and the Centre signed a tripartite agreement to transfer “surplus” water from the Ken basin in M.P. to the “deficit” Betwa basin in U.P. About Ken-Betwa project First mooted in the 1980s, the Ken-Betwa project was taken up seriously only during former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s regime. The Ken-Betwa project is part of the national river linking project which proposes to connect 14 Himalayan and 16 peninsular rivers with 30 canals and 3,000 reservoirs in order to irrigate 87 million hectares of land. It has the status of a national…
20 April, 2021
Environmental Impact Assessment
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