Dr. VK Bahuguna

 India during 2022 had 236 GW capacity of Thermal power in the country out of which 59 % was coal based and rest Gas and Diesel. One of the problem country faced in the field of Environment Conservation was the disposal of Fly Ash produced by the Thermal Plants and the huge loss of soil and pollution by the ever increasing brick klin factories. As India' population and buissness is growing so is construction activities and requirements of bricks.  During my tenure in the Ministry of Envitonment, Forest and Climate Change in early 2004 I visited the NTFP Dadri plant and was shown the Fly Ash bricks made by them on experimental basis. I learned that these bricks are of excellent qualities on strength as well as engineering aspects.  During my visit to cities I have been seeing mushrooming of brick kiln factories all over and noticing environmental damaged caused by these kilns. In one of my visit to a Tribal block in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh I incidentally knocke...

  For a long time I have been writing as a free lance columnist in national news papers for almost 20 years. I have contributed for  Indian Express and Fianancial Express, The Telegraph, Hindustan Times, Pioneer and Millenium Post. But I have observed that the papers have become so poor in articles quality that even the grammatrical mistakes are not corrected and all sorts of people have been publishing trash in these papers. One of the reasons is lure for advertisement and bureaucratic and political control makes the quality of news very bise and sensational. Hard hitting suggestions are necessary for a politician like Prime Minister Modi. So independent blogging will be an excellent way to contribute for the national interest.  I have decided it would be better to revive my blogging page which i created afew years ago but did not use much and raise isssue more frequesntaly on the national issues. 

  Celebrate 50 years of Project Tiger but No occasion for complacency   By: (VK Bahuguna) formerly Director-General of Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Chaneg. He sperannuated as Principal Secretary and APC in Apex Scale under the Government of Tripura. On 9 th April 2023 the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of completion of 50 years of Project Tiger released the 2022 Tiger census report while visiting the Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka. The Tiger population in the country now has increased by 200 and stood at 3167 Tigers. Tiger is at the apex of the ecosystems food chain and presence of Tiger reflects the stability and equilibrium in the ecosystems. In tropical climate of India the stability of different ecosystems is essential for sustaining the water and other biological resources which are important for all form of life. Tigers were not only mercilessly hunted by trigger happy hunters but...