Calls the decision “timely” and “significant” for protecting water bodies Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) issues notification stopping work on cement factory being built in Bhavnagar. Factory was being built over a water body used by farmers for irrigating their fields.
India’s richest lands – with minerals, forests, wildlife and water sources – are home to its poorest people. Mining in India has, contrary to government’s claims, done little for the development of the mineral-bearing regions of the country: says the latest publication from New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) – its 356-page 6th State of India’s Environment Report, titled Rich Lands, Poor People -- Is Sustainable Mining Possible?