Despite three committees to define the Aravallis for over a year, armed with satellite imagery and expertise from multiple ...

Experts warn that even limited mining can disrupt groundwater recharge, increase erosion, and weaken the ecological integrity of the entire Aravalli range.Mining could fragment wildlife corridors, ...

The new definition does not permit mining automatically in any area. It only standardises what constitutes the Aravalli range using scientific & geomorphological criteria.

R.P. Balwan moved SC seeking changes to its 20 November order that says sustainable mining would cover only ranges above 100m ...

In simple terms, only hills that rise at least 100 metres above the surrounding lower ground will be marked as Aravallis on official maps.

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has also asked the ICFRE to identify additional areas across the ...

A hill does not cease to be part of the range because it has been quarried into invisibility; such destruction is evidence of ...

Party says reclassification could leave most of the ancient range vulnerable to mining and real estate activity, accusing Centre of weakening environmental safeguards ...

Over the past few weeks, Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav has given a series of interviews to defend a new definition of ...

However, this failed to buy peace with the Congress and environmentalists again, referring to the contentious new definition of the Aravallis based on a 100-metre elevation threshold and a Forest ...

GURGAON: The Union environment ministry (MoEF) affidavit in Supreme Court, which recommended defining Aravalis for the ...

Jairam Ramesh says revised definition of Aravalli hills was opposed by statutory bodies and the Supreme Court’s advisers ...