It is a well-established fact that the Indian Himalayan Region is both India’s water tower and also the critical provider of invaluable ecosystem goods and services. In view of some of the recent judgments of the Supreme Court of India, we seem to be headed towards a more robust rights-based regime where sustainable development would be a fundamental right. In …
As the efforts to evacuate 41 workers trapped in a tunnel near Silkyara in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand are weeks away from fruition, the infrastructure development trajectory in the Himalayas comes under serious clouds — once again. The Char Dham Project, all-weather roads, being constructed by the National Highway Authority of India in Uttarakhand, linking the four religious pilgrimages …
The Teesta dam breach in Sikkim in early October and the recent floods and landslides in Himachal Pradesh are a stark reminder of the havoc our development model is wreaking on our environment and ecology especially in the mountains. The basis of an EIA Environment Impact Assessment is one such process defined by the United Nations Environment Programme as a …
Wash your hands, stay inside the house, quarantine yourself and save yourselves and others life. Public Health Act is also one of the law which prevails at international level to look after the pandemic and according to the entailment of the country or world during the pandemic the WHO also from time to time issues certain guidelines as per the …
