Karnataka High Court – Environment Support Group

Campaigns Commons Lake PILs Lakes PILs Water

Admin ESG January 17, 2021June 21, 2023 0 Comments Bangalore lakes, commons, Karnataka High Court, Karnataka lakes, lakes

Karnataka High Court directs Revenue Secretary to demonstrate compliance in ESG Lakes PIL

For almost two years now, Chief Justice Mr. Abhay Oka of the High Court of Karnataka has systematically developed jurisprudence to protect lakes as our commons, and for posterity. This is being achieved by his orders in a PIL filed by Citizens Action Group (CAG) PIL (WP 38401/2014). The jurisprudence reaffirms a schema for protecting and rehabilitating lakes based on their ground up monitoring, and for their rehabilitation through public involvement while ensuring regulatory oversight is transparent and accountable.

Campaigns Commons Press Releases Urban Urban Forestry

Admin ESG April 22, 2014June 20, 2023 0 Comments bangalore, bbmp, biodiversity, campaigns, hasiru usiru, Karnataka High Court, tree felling, tree planting

An Urgent Appeal To Help Verify Claims Of BBMP About Tree Planting In Bangalore City

Requesting Bangaloreans to count trees planted by BBMP since 2007 22 April 2014 Downloads: BBMP submission to Karnataka High Court

Lakes Press Releases

Admin ESG August 29, 2013January 9, 2020 0 Comments bangalore, bbmp, campaigns, Contempt of Court, hasiru usiru, Justice N. K. Patil, Karnataka High Court, Lake Protection Committees, lakes

Karnataka High Court Issues Contempt Notice On Karnataka Chief Secretary For Not Constituting Lake Protection Committees As Directed

Order issued in Civil Contempt Petition filed by Environment Support Group 29 August 2013 Downloads: ESG Release: High Court issues

Campaigns Press Releases Urban Governance Waste Management

Admin ESG November 24, 2012June 16, 2023 0 Comments bbmp, campaigns, composting, education, environment, karnataka, Karnataka High Court, KCDC, landfill, mavallipura, public health, recycling, segregation of waste, solid waste management

Karnataka High Court Directs Bangalore To Be The First City In India To Segregate Waste At Source

Directs decentralised management of waste to facilitate composting and recyling 24 November 2012 Downloads: ESG Release on Karnataka High Court

Biodiversity & Biopiracy Biopiracy Campaigns PILs Press Releases

Admin ESG October 16, 2012June 20, 2023 0 Comments biodiversity, biopiracy, brinjal, campaigns, convention on biological diversity, Karnataka High Court, normally traded commodities, threatened and endangered species

Public Interest Litigation In Karnataka High Court Challenging Callous Disregard For Biodiversity Protection

16 October 2012 Downloads: ESG Release: PIL on Biodiversity Loss and Biopiracy Release: 16 October 2012: Bangalore Public Interest Litigation

Lakes Press Releases

Admin ESG August 31, 2012January 9, 2020 0 Comments Bangalore lakes, biodiversity, campaigns, commons, community outreach, hasiru usiru, Justice N. K. Patil Report, Karnataka High Court, Karnataka lakes, lake conservation, lake rehabiliation, lakes, publications

Karnataka High Court Institutes Decentralised Management And Regulation Of Conservation And Protection Of Karnataka’s Lakes And Canal Networks

Unprecedented decision gives new lease of life to build water and ecological security of Karnataka 31 August 2012 Downloads: ESG

Campaigns Commons Press Releases Roads Urban

Admin ESG June 18, 2012June 20, 2023 0 Comments bbmp, bda, campaigns, hasire usiru, hasiru usiru, Karnataka High Court, karnataka town and country planning act, road widening, sadashivnagar road widening, signal free corridor, tree felling, urban planning

Karnataka High Court Decision Approving Sadashivnagar-Yeshwantpur Road Widening Regressive

Revisitation of this order essential given the irrereversible and deep impacts on people’s rights to life, housing and livelihood, and

Press Releases Resources

Admin ESG March 23, 2012October 28, 2022 0 Comments bangalore, biodiversity, campaigns, commons, community action, community outreach, conservation, education, Food and Agriculture Organisation, hasiru usiru, irrigation tanks, Karnataka High Court, lakes, livelihoods, privatisation, public, tree felling, UN Water, United Nations, water, Water for Life, wetlands, wise use, World Water Day

Environment Support Group Gets United Nations “WATER FOR LIFE” 2012 Best Practices Award

Comprehensive efforts to conserve Bangalore Lakes that bring together Judiciary, Government and wide public considered strategic to building ecological, water

PILs Press Releases

Admin ESG November 2, 2011December 3, 2019 0 Comments bangalore, commercialisation, ESG, Justice N. K. Patil, Karnataka High Court, lakes, Oberoi, PIL, precautionary principle, privatisation, privatization, public commons, public trust doctrine

Karnataka High Court Committee Strongly Discourages “commercial” Involvement In Lake Management And Rejuvenation

ESG’s PIL is basis for this proposal 2 November 2011 Downloads: Press Release on Justice Patil Report on Privatisation of