Reports and Documents

This Act may be called the Mines (Amendment) Act, 2011. It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

As the demand for a ban on endosulfan in India is gaining pitch, the pesticide associations are leaving no opportunity to vilify CSE for saving their US $ 100m market. CSE responds with the facts and a detailed chronology of events.

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed the show cause notification issued by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to a cement factory being built in Padhiarka village, Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, for “permanent suspension of work and revocation of the environment clearance”.

MoEF has served this show-cause notice to Nirma Limited for the company's proposed cement plant, coke oven plant and captive power plant to be set up near Mahuva in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat.

Reply from Ministry of Agriculture to D. Dhanusumod, Correspondent, Mangalam Daily under RTI Act for letters asking not to ban Endosulfan.

Minutes of the meeting dated 4/03/2011 on environmental clearance for the development of hill station township (1st Phase -2000 ha) at Village Mulsi and Velhe Talukas, District Pune, Maharashtra by M/s. Lavasa Corporation Ltd [F.No. 21-9/2011-IA.III.

Information provided by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in responde to RTI filed by Dr. Babu K V seeking details on the total no. of deaths following immunization in the country (AEFI) from 2001 to 2009.

This is Comprehensive Management Action Plan (CMAP) for Conservation of the Ousteri lake prepared by Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON) details various conservation and management interventions to be taken up for long-term sustainability of this lake.