Panel to study forest land in NE
The Centre will constitute a committee to conduct a study on ownership of forest land in the Northeastern region. Informing this here on Tuesday, Union Minister of state for Environment, Forest and
Lafarge India
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Centre has 11 weeks to appoint eco clearance regulator
For independent, transparent appraisal & approval of projects The Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to appoint a Regulator with offices in States under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 for appraising projects, enforcing environmental conditions for approvals and imposing penalties on polluters.
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Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding environmental clearance to projects, 06/01/2014
<p>Supreme Court has asked the environment ministry to set up national environment regulator with office in every state to “appraise and monitor” the process for granting green clearances and how the regulations are complied with. Read text of this order dated 6 Jan 2014.</p>
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SC reserves decision on environment regulator
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its decision on setting up of an environment regulator for evaluating projects, enforcing environmental conditions for approv-als and imposition of penalties.
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10 cement manufacturing firms told to pay Rs 630 crore by June 24
The Supreme Court today directed 10 cement manufacturing companies to pay Rs 630 crore by June 24 as a pre-condition for hearing their appeals against a penalty of Rs 6,300 crore imposed on them for artificially
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Draft policy on inspection, verification, monitoring and the overall procedure relating to the grant of forest clearances and identification of forests
This is text of the draft policy on inspection, verification, monitoring and overall procedure relating to the grant of forest clearances released by the Ministry of environment and forests.
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No major impact of tribunal order: Analysts
The Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat) has directed cement companies to pay 10 per cent of the penalty of Rs 6,307 crore imposed on them by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for cartelisation.
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Reliance gets nod to set up cement plant in Himachal
The Virbhadra Singh-led Congress government, in a late evening cabinet decision on Wednesday, decided to grant licence to Reliance Industries for setting up a cement plant in the Chopal tehsil of apple-producing
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NHAI moves SC on MoEF roadblocks, forest approvals
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking modification of its guidelines mandating forest clearance prior to environmental clearance, saying the related procedures have delayed and stalled 22 important projects worth over R20,000 crore. The highway authority has also sought a direction to the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to modify its office memoranda (OM) of March and April 2011 so as to delink the two clearances in respect of widening of national highways.
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Coal ministry issues letters for deallocation of 8 blocks
The Union ministry of coal has issued deallocation letters for eight coal blocks, giving effect to a recent decision taken by the Inter-Ministerial Group. “Government has issued letters for at least
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Coal ministry de-allocates 8 coal blocks
The Ministry of Coal has issued de-allocation letters for eight coal blocks following a decision of the Inter-Ministerial Group. “The Government has issued letters for at least eight coal blocks given