Forests are vanishing, rock blasts are traumatising wild animals and debris is filling up riverbeds, with builders having a field day in Himachal Pradesh, says a report of a State Government-appointed commission. It also recommends the withdrawal of the Himachal Pradesh Apartment and Property Regulation Act of 2005.

In less than three years, more than 9,500 polyhouses have replaced ‘terraces’ on nearly 100 hectares of cultivable land on the slopes of Himachal Pradesh.
The innovative and lucrative method of farming inside polyhouses to grow vegetables has turned out to be ideal in harsh winters when little cultivation is possible in the hill state, particularly for farmers with small landholdings.

Shimla: Himachal will take up the issue of illegal mining from the riverbed in the Damtal-Chakki area of Kangra and Paonta Sahib in Sirmaur with the neighbouring states to check the illegal practice.

The state government has decided to take up the issue with Punjab and Uttarakhand with whom it shares an extensive boundary along the riverbed in Kangra district and the Yamuna in the Paonta Sahib area. The illegal activity is not only causing irreparable loss to the environment but is also resulting in a huge loss to the state exchequer.

Green tribunal stays land acquisition process

The Rs 3,600-crore Renuka Dam project in Sirmaur district hit another roadblock today when the National Green Tribunal passed an interim order directing Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (HPPCL) to stay the entire acquisition process under the Land Acquisition Act.

It has also restrained the public sector undertaking from carrying out any construction activity in both non-forest and forest land and from announcing the award of compensation.

A new technology is all set to rapidly revolutionise Himachal Pradesh

The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest has decided to withhold forest clearance to Sutlej basin Shongtang-Karcham (450 MW) hydel project in Kinnaur district of Himachal Prdaesh, but has decided to give its go-ahead to Chanju-I (36MW)

Dharamsala: The Congress will oppose Grasim industries

Solan: With the State Pollution Control Board (PCB) directing induction furnaces and steel units to get their non-hazardous slag treated through the Shiwalik Hazardous Waste Plant, investors resent that the board had made it compulsory to get this waste treated from the hazardous plant which was contrary to the laid guidelines.

Conversely, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had laid dow

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has rejected the proposal of the Himachal government to use 775 hectares of forestland for the Renuka Dam project in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh.

The project was categorised as one of national importance. Once completed, it was supposed to provide 275 million gallons of potable water per day to Delhi.

Two labourers lost their lives and three people were injured at Kanlog in Shimla due to heavy rains on Sunday morning. A temporary hutment made of tin sheets collapsed in an under-construction building resulting in the death of two people.