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Submit Polavaram report in 4 months: SC tells Centre
Bhubaneswar: Hearing a petition filed by the Odisha government seeking stay order on final approvals for Polavaram project, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to submit a detailed report within four weeks time. Informing this at a press briefing at the State Secretariat here on Monday, state water resources secretary Suresh Mahapatra said that the state government had filed a case
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Polavaram SC notice to Andhra on Orissa's suit
Oct. 4: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre and Andhra Pradesh on a suit filed by Orissa, challenging the construction of Polavaram dam close to the border of the two states on the grounds that it would submerge hundreds of villages of Orissa. While admitting the suit, a bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and M.K.
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MoEF to file reply on Polavaram project
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to file its reply to a plea by the Orissa government for quashing the environment clearance granted to the Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh.
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Naveen failed to protect State interests: BJP
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP today slammed the Centre for showering favours on Andhra Pradesh like Polavaram project and blamed the ruling BJD for failing to protect the State interests. Addressing activists of the BJP Yuva Morcha who staged a dharna near Raj Bhawan protesting Polavaram, senior leaders of the party blamed Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for his failure to take up the issue with the Centr
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Hope floats above murky depths of neglect
K Rajani Kanth / Polavaram September 22, 2010, 0:27 IST The final instalment of our two-part report on the situation on the ground at Polavaram, site of the controversial Indira Sagar project. PART 1: BEFORE THE DELUGE, A SEA OF TRIBAL TEARS Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah has, of late, reiterated that the Indira Sagar project would be completed according to schedule by 2014.
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Before the deluge, a sea of tribal tears
K Rajani Kanth / Polavaram September 21, 2010, 1:48 IST This is the first of a two-part report on the situation on the ground at Polavaram, site of the controversial Indira Sagar canal project. For 2,705 Koyas, compensation doesn
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Restoration of works sought
Bhimavarm, Sept. 15: The East and West Godavari delta project committees demanded for immediate restoration of Polavaram main project works. The committee representatives, Mr Trinadh Reddy and Mr R. Satyanaraya Raju, appealed to the Chief Minister, Mr K.
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OPCC chief meets PM on Polavaram
BHUBANESWAR: President of the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) KP Singhdeo has requested the Centre to issue a statement assuring the people of the State that there will be no loss for Orissa because of the Polavaram project. Singhdeo today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi and discussed the Polavaram project.
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Cong demands white paper on Polavaram
Bhubaneswar: The Congress on Monday demanded a white paper from the chief minister Naveen Patnaik, on the steps taken by his government to discuss the Polavaram issue with the Centre and the Andhra Pradesh administration. Briefing newsmen here, senior Congress leader Umesh Chandra Swain urged the state government to make public all communications made by the chief minister with Ministry of Envi
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Let Posco change plant location: Congress leader
BHUBANESWAR: Former Congress MLA Umesh Swain on Monday said that the proposed Posco steel plant should be shifted from the present location to a place south of Jatadhari mouth as displacement will be minimum in this case. Addressing mediapersons here, Swain said that the BJD managers who are organising a rally at Jagatsinghpur on September 18 in support of the proposed plant should persuade the
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Centres nod to Polavaram irks BJD leaders
The Naveen Patnaik government on Sunday came down heavily on the Congress-led government at the Centre saying it was behaving like a party instead of maintaining its character as a responsible constitutional authority. Seven ministers, two Lok Sabha members and 25 MLAs, who addressed a gathering of party workers at Malkangiri protesting the Centre
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Polavaram: Facts belie Centres claim
BHUBANESWAR: POLITICS apart, the facts and figures over the proposed Polavaram project that threatens to submerge 29 tribal villages in Orissa, belie the Centre's claim. The Union Environment Ministry has accepted the Andhra Pradesh Government's promise that with appropriate technical interventions, submergence could be avoided in Orissa's Mottu taluk.
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No land will be given for Polavaram project: BJD
BHUBANESWAR: Biju Janata Dal leaders on Sunday slammed the Centre for giving final clearance to the controversial Indira Sagar Polavaram project by ignoring protests from Orissa where 20,000 tribal families of 29 villages are going to be displaced by the dam. Addressing the 'Malkangiri banchao, Polavaram hatao' rally, the BJD leaders, including seven ministers, announced that not an inch of lan
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Godavari: The New Narmada?
Will Polavaram be another ecocide zone? Not if we apply the Vedanta logic to it. The Polavaram dam across the river Godavari has been a dream project for several governments in Andhra Pradesh. Most of them had to let it stay at that
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Call all-party meet on Polavaram
BHUBANESWAR: THE Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) today urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to convene an all-party meeting on the Polavaram issue if his Government is really concerned for the interests of the State. Pradesh BJYM president Bibhuti Jena told a media conference here that all political parties of the State are ready to fight the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre for
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Dont politicise Polavaram: Congress
BHUBANESWAR: Maintaining that the Centre had given conditional clearance to Polavaram dam project, the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) criticised the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for trying to politicise the issue. BJD is trying to politicise the issue even after the assurance given by Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik that al
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Prove Polavaram will affect Orissa: Kharabela
BHUBANESWAR: President of Utkal Bharat party Kharabela Swain today dared the Government to prove that Polavaram multi-purpose irrigation project will adversely affect the State.
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Reality checks on growth
Environmental fundamentalism is proving a major hurdle to economic development in India A V Rajwade / New Delhi September 06, 2010, 0:39 IST Continuing the last week