<p>Report of the Joint Committee in compliance with the National Green Tribunal order, May 30, 2022 in the matter of Original Application No. 55/2022 (Kashinath Jagannath Thakur Vs Grampanchayat Shirki
The oil spill on the Uran coast close to Mumbai is larger than what was estimated, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has said. The admission came two days after the leak of crude oil from
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nicholas H. Almeida Vs M/s Lenzing Modi Fibres India Pvt Ltd & Others dated 13/09/2013 regarding the setting up of a viscose staple fibre plant near
Sand mining in large parts of Maharashtra continues without mandatory environmental clearance, which is against the Supreme Court’s orders, activist Sumaira Abdulali has alleged. Abdulali, who had filed
Cost Temporarily Reduced To Get Faster Approvals New evidence on the irregularities in the controversial Kondhane dam in Raigad reveals that it was hurriedly commenced without a proper design. Instead of drawing up the general layout and design of the project based on the site’s needs, the Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation (KIDC) brazenly reproduced the blueprint of another dam.
Mumbai: Forget skeletons, a criminal probe into the functioning of the Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation (KIDC) may reveal an entire graveyard. The Chenara minor dam project in state water resources minister Sunil Tatkare’s bastion, Roha in Raigad district, reveals shocking instances of how officials shifted the goal post several times to push it through. The project was inaugurated by deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar in October, 2011. Documents accessed by TOI show the project was initially planned to irrigate 1,440 hectares, but subsequently reduced to 250 hectares when officials realized that permissions would be difficult to get. The dam’s height, which was fixed at 44.20m, was shortened to 28.95m.
The Tata Power’s proposed 1,600 MW project in Raigad, Maharashtra, hit a roadblock recently after the Supreme Court admitted a bunch of appeals by farmers against the proprietary of land acquisition and
A faulty design was the ostensible reason for the cost of the Nerdhamana irrigation project in Akola district to skyrocket from an initial estimate of Rs 181 crore to Rs 638 crore. State governor K
In early 2010, two-and-a-half-year-old Mohammed Qasim Ahmed of Malegaon was detected with the P-1 strain of the polio virus. He was among the many Malegaon families who have consistently refused to get
The Maharashtra government on Monday cancelled four major Special Economic Zones (SEZs) proposed by large business houses — Mahindra, Videocon and India Bulls — after having failed to acquire land for
Amid reports that the Kondhane dam project in neighbouring Raigad district has been scrapped following complaints of "gross irregularities", Water Resources Minister Sunil Tatkare today clarified that
