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• Soyabean production in India can be doubled by the year 2002, according to Gian Singh, director of VMA Oilseeds Research and Development Institute (VORDI). The use of short-duration
• Soyabean production in India can be doubled by the year 2002, according to Gian Singh, director of VMA Oilseeds Research and Development Institute (VORDI). The use of short-duration
In this new report Amnesty International draws attention to Vedanta's continuing failure to recognise rights of the communities affected by the company's operations in Orissa & recommends suspension of projects until human rights abuses faced by communities are addressed.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests constituted a committee under the Chairmanship of Shri J.M. Mauskar, Special Secretary to Government of India vide Office Order No.J-11013/30/2009-IA.II (I) (Pt.)
State represses, doesn t enable; creates poverty from riches
Spic Electric Power Corporation (SEPC), a subsidiary of Tamilnadu Petroproducts Ltd (TPL), has decided to revive its 523-Mw thermal power plant at Tuticorin, shelved 11 years earlier. The Rs 2,300-crore project was conceived in 1995 but put on hold in 2001 due to a land dispute. In its annual report, SEPC said the V O Chidambaranar Port Trust (formerly Tuticorin Port Trust) has agreed to give alternative land to start work on the project. SEPC had already got environmental clearance, the company said in its annual report. It had,it said, held a fruitful discussion with the Port Trust officials and sought permission for various facilities.
Output can be 152 mt higher by 2017; 102 clearances pending. Public sector miner Coal India Ltd, which is under pressure to increase output to meet domestic demand, has 102 proposals pending at different
Shivakumar | ENS RTI query reveals contractor was paid `240 cr even before receiving clearance for the project THE `1,655-crore elevated expressway from Chennai Port Trust to Maduravoyal is yet to get government approval, according to information under the Right to Information (RTI). In a reply to an RTI application filed by activist Aruldoss on December 13, the Environment Department said
Seeking to absolve himself of culpability in the 'Adarsh' scam, Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Wednesday passed the buck to former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, saying the "whole" matter was referred
THE Bisalpur dam in Rajasthan will finally see the daylight. The World Bank (WB) has decided to fund the Jaipur Water Supply Project which will receive water from the Bisalpur dam under
BHUBANESWAR: The Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) today strongly denied starting any mining activity in Niyamgiri hills of Kalahandi where its alumina project is sited. Mining will be undertaken by a joint venture (JV) company between the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) and Sterlite Industries India Ltd (SIIL), and not by Vedanta Aluminium, as per the Supreme Court directive last year.
The Supreme Court s decision, giving a go ahead to the Sardar Sarovar Project, has regenerated the debate.
New Delhi: Here are cases of corruption at the highest level in handing out forest clearances. An inspector-general of forests, C D Singh, has been transferred out of the Forest Advisory Committee and
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government will take a decision soon on whether to move the Supreme Court challenging the decision of the Centre for rejecting the stage-II clearance for bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills for the Lanjigarh refinery of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL). Official sources said the recommendations of the advocate-general on the issue are under the consideration of the Steel an
Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) has once again approached the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) for environmental clearance regarding its proposed 1,000 MW thermal power plant at
The ministry of environment and forests has given environmental clearance to ONGC's Rs 500-crore methane-propane (C2-C3) recovery plant in Dahej, Gujarat. The C2+ extraction project would extract
The Ambattur Industrial Estate of the Chennai city is now in dire straits. What it urgently needs is a proper maintenance of roads and street lights, and a complete garbage clearance. Spread over six
Login www.nic.in/envfor on the website for any information you might want for the large number of projects that are awaiting clearance. The ministry of environment and forest has gone on-line .
The bid to reap the fruits of biotechnology has come a cropper - yet again. The genetic engineering approval committee of the environment ministry has once again deferred clearance of Mahyco's
Indian prime minister ManmohanSingh has announced that India will go ahead with the plan of installingTipaimukh hydroelectric project on the Barak River along the Manipur-Mizoramborder. "The environmental
New Delhi Environmental clearance delays are rising again, pushing up the number of pending infrastructure projects. There are now 400 projects in mining, hydro and thermal power, and building and construction