Surat: The city of Surat, which was ranked first last year as the cleanest city in the country, has achieved another milestone. Surat has made the city and the state proud by bagging first rank in the 'Clean Air Survey-2024' organized by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, beating 131 cities across the country. Besides being the fastest growing city, Surat has managed to achieve a significant reduction of 1.71% in PM10 particles in the year 2013-2014. Surat city was ...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister, along with his family members, joined the 'Ek Ped Ma Ke Naam' campaign by planting a tree in the Chief Minister's residence compound on Thursday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched this campaign on June 5 to mark World Environment Day and appealed to people to plant a tree as a tribute to Mother Earth. DeshGujarat Read More

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister today launched the 'Mission Three Million Trees' campaign by planting trees. The campaign by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) aims to plant as many as 30 lakh trees in the city. In a program organized by AMC, the Chief Minister also launched E-buses of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service (AMTS) that will be on roads on the newly launched Metro Connectivity Feeder routes and Riverfront route. Also launched today were the RRR (Reduce, Reuse, R...Read More

Jambughoda: The State Board for Wildlife (SBWL) has decided to temporarily suspend the plan to remove aging mining waste from the eco-sensitive zone within the Jambughoda Sanctuary. The decision was prompted by a matter of contention raised by SBWL member Rohit Vyas. Vyas emphasized that a two-member committee, established back in 2014, had initially recommended the removal of debris solely from a 64-hectare area within the total expanse of 211 hectares. Vyas pointedly highlighted that the lo...Read More

Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has directed the Forest Department to conduct an Environment Impact Assessment for both ongoing and planned major projects within the state's sanctuary areas. Within this context, he emphasized the need for environmental impact studies to be conducted in forest sanctuary areas for projects such as railway lines, underground pipelines, and optical fiber networks. These instructions were issued by him during the 22nd meeting of the State Board for ...Read More

Jamnagar: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Gujarat for the development of mangrove forest in around 3500-acre area of Marine National Park under the Central Government’s MISHTI (Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes) scheme. In the presence of Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, and Labour and Employment Shri Bhupender Yadav and Jamnagar and Dwarka Lok Sabha MP Smt. Poonamben Mad...Read More

Vadodara: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) sent closure notices to 6 industrial units in Nandesari GIDC and ordered MGVCL to cut their electricity connections for allegedly polluting the water of Mini River. MGVCL cut the electricity connections of Jaitik International, Link Pharma chem, Megha Dychem, Shakti Ammonia, Panoli intermediate unit 3, and unit 1 to 8. GPCB sent a closure notice to them last week for a breach of environmental norms. The managers of the company had asked MGVCL for...Read More

અમદાવાદ: અમદાવાદ મ્યુનિસિપલ કોર્પોરેશન શહેરના ગ્રીન કવર વિસ્તારને 15% સુધી લઈ જવાના લક્ષ્યાંક માટે અમદાવાદ શહેરમાં અત્યાર સુધીમાં કુલ 104 જેટલા ઓક્સિજન પાર્ક કોર્પોરેશન દ્વારા નિર્માણ કરાય�...Read More

Sabarmati: The city will get another oxygen park by the Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC). Marking World Environment Day on June 5th, Chief Minister Shri Bhupendra Patel will lay the foundation stone for the oxygen park at Tragad. The oxygen park spans over 24,270 square metres, and the civic body is going to plant approximately 75,000 trees using the 'Miyawaki' method. 7,500 trees will be planted in the park on June 5th. The park will offer various attractions for visitors. It will feature...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Kalol court, in a verdict of a case, filed 27 years ago, has sentenced the partners of a chemical company in Kalol GIDC to two-year imprisonment and a Rs 10 thousand fine for releasing polluted water without permission. Bharat Petrochemical Corporation, located in the Kalol GIDC area, had been releasing 500 litres of polluted water daily without purification, which was produced during the production process of white oil and solvent using kerosene, diesel, and sulfuric acid as...Read More