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Translocated MG Road trees fail to survive 16.5.2013 deccanherald.com
Translocated MG Road trees fail to survive
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Bangalore must become an inclusive city (Cached) 15.5.2013 Citizen Matters
When Citizen Matters approached Leo Saldanha ,Co-ordinator of Environment Support Group, seeking his wish list for the new government, here’s what he had to say.
Leo Saldanha is a full-time Coordinator of Bangalore-based Environment Support Group. He is an expert in the areas of Environmental Law and Policy, Decentralisation, Urban Planning and a variety of Human Rights and Development-related issues, working across many sectors for over a decade. He is a keen campaigner on critical environmental and social justice issues and has guided several campaigns demanding evolution of progressive laws and effective action. He has supported various distressed communities to secure justice through public interest litigations and advocacy efforts. He has argued as party in person several public interest litigations, many of which have resulted…
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‘Amrit Mahal Kaval is not forest land’ 11.5.2013 The Hindu: Today's Paper
‘Amrit Mahal Kaval is not forest land’
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Protesting against Karnataka govt, villagers decide not to vote (Cached) 29.4.2013 Zee News : States
In an unusual move, around 4000 people from Dodda Ullarthi village in Chitradurga district have decided not to vote in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, a report said.
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Chitradurga grasslands illegally diverted (Cached) 28.4.2013 Oneindia.in: News
Chitradurga (Karnataka), April 28: In its pursuit to project an image of a developed nation, India, is sacrificing age-old practices that have sustained local communities as well as kept a balance in the bio-diversity of the region. The recent case
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Karnataka Assembly polls 2013: 4,000 Chitradurga villagers choose to abstain from voting (Cached) 28.4.2013 Zee News : States
Around 40,000 inhabitants of Dodda Ullarthi village in Chitradurga district have decided not to vote during the upcoming Karnataka Assembly polls.
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District lake protection committee to become a reality soon (Cached) 26.4.2013 TOI: All Headlines
District lake protection committee to become a reality soon
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LDA is a toothless tiger, admits official 25.4.2013 Hindu: Bangalore
The Lake Development Authority (LDA) receives a daily barrage of complaints, be it about pollution, encroachment or illegal activities around lakes. But the LDA is a society, not an enforcing agen...
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No water to tap into 24.4.2013 The Hindu: Today's Paper
No water to tap into
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Bangalore Today 24.4.2013 The Hindu: Today's Paper
Bangalore Today
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No water to tap into 23.4.2013 Hindu: Cities
Bangalore needs to wake up to the fact that digging borewells is not the solution to our water woes. After all, the aquifers we depend on are finite
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YES Bank launches Sustainability Series (Cached) 23.4.2013 New Kerala: Sports India
Mumbai, Apr 23 : YES Bank, India's fourth largest private sector bank, has launched the YES Bank Sustainability Series, the first-ever initiative in India, to promote Risk Awareness in the Environment & Social (E&S) domain in the Financial Sector.
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Inside View: Todd Novak of Ryan Cos. 19.4.2013 Star Tribune: Business
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Security projects 'violate' green laws as they start work in Karnataka 29.3.2013 Assorted Sources
Security projects 'violate' green laws as they start work in Karnataka
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Panel to study shrinking Amrit Mahal kaval lands 28.3.2013 Assorted Sources
Panel to study shrinking Amrit Mahal kaval lands
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Diversion of grassland for infra projects under scrutiny 28.3.2013 deccanherald.com
The Southern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal has set up a two-member expert committee to visit Challakere in Chitradurga district, where about 10,000 acres of the traditional grassland and forest area ('Amrit Mahal Kaval') has been given for defence, nuclear, industrial and infrastructure projects. The committee, comprising S Ravichandra Reddy, retired professor of Ecology, Bangalore University, and K V Anantharaman, Deputy Director, Scientist 'C', Central Silk Board, will study the ecological and environmental consequences of diverting the land for such projects. The decision to set up the committee was taken on March 21, and the Environment Support Group (ESG) at a press conference on Wednesday claimed that the action was based on applications filed by Leo F Saldanha and ESGin February. Interim relief "Through the application, we prayed for an interim relief of stay on ongoing activities and for allowing access to grazing pastures for local pastoralists. "Despite the ...
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Karnataka put on notice for conversion of grasslands 27.3.2013 Assorted Sources
Karnataka put on notice for conversion of grasslands
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Panel to inspect pastoral land in Chitradurga 24.3.2013 The Hindu: Today's Paper
Panel to inspect pastoral land in Chitradurga
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City waste chokes Mavallipura water bodies 16.3.2013 deccanherald.com
City waste chokes Mavallipura water bodies
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Bangalore Today for Thursday 14.3.2013 The Hindu: Today's Paper
Bangalore Today for Thursday
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