<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of All India Drug Action Network & Others Vs Union of India Ministry of Health & Others dated 13/09/2023. Additional Solicitor General informed
New Delhi Refusing to scrap the government’s decision under which 194 coal blocks were allocated to various companies, the Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and the CBI on a PIL seeking probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the alleged irregularities. The PIL, filed by various members of civil society, including former CEC N Gopalaswami, ex-Navy chief L Ramdas and former cabinet secretary TSR Subramanian, has leveled allegations of unfairness and arbitrariness in the allocation of 194 blocks and sought cancellation of the licenses granted by the government.
Jaipur: A division bench of Rajasthan high court on Monday issued notices to the state and Central governments seeking their response to a PIL seeking to nullify the first-come-first-serve rule adopted for allotment of mining leases for precious minor minerals in the state. The order came on a PIL filed by one Battulal Meena who challenged the rules framed under Rajasthan Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1986. The PIL claims that the lease for extracting minor minerals like limestone, marble, granite etc, are being allotted under firstcome-first-serve basis while low quality and less priced mineral stones like chezza stone is being awarded through public auction which is highly arbitrary and whimsical.
PANJIM: The Goa State Pollution Control Board began hearing the defence of 43 mining firms, which had been accused of mining iron ore in excess of production limit. Sesa Goa, from whose 20 mining leases excess ore has been mined, has been given time till December 7 to reply, after its officials requested more time to reply, Monday. GSPCB Chairman Jose Manuel Noronha said that the hearings will continue till November 24 and the final decision would be taken before end of December.
Seeks Time Frame On Amanishah Jaipur: The “selective approach” of the state government in removing encroachments in the Amanishah Nullah made the Rajasthan high court see red on Monday with the bench asking, “Are we in a jungle raj in Rajasthan?” Pulling up the state for tardy governance, a division bench of Rajasthan HC asked chief secretary C K Mathew to file an affidavit by Wednesday on a time frame to remove the remaining encroachments.
The bench, however, refused to stay the licenses, which were allegedly granted in violation of law The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre and the CBI on a plea for a probe by a special investigation team into the alleged irregularities in the coal block allocations. A bench of justices R M Lodha and A R Dave also sought response from them on a public interest litigation petition seeking cancellation of the licenses granted by the government for coal blocks to various private companies.
Another PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of all the coal blocks allotted to private companies since 1993 and a court-monitored CBI probe into the alleged scam involving over
Despite several campaigns being organised to raise awareness about the hazards of firecracker-induced noise pollution, expect a noisy Diwali this year too. The reasons: there is a lack of awareness among
The BMC will set up a special cell to look into cell tower radiation violations in the city, said Additional Municipal Commissioner Aseem Gupta at the civic general body meeting on Friday. Municipal councillors also demanded that a survey of all mobile towers in the city be undertaken to see if they are complying with the Central government norms.
Faced with the startling data that only 224 out of the estimated 788 packaged drinking water manufacturing units in the State operate with ISI certification, the High Court on Friday directed companies without that seal of quality to apply for licences before the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) within 15 days. The court also directed the BIS to finish the formalities of application processing and follow-up procedures within four months and after that, take action against those agencies and companies that sell water without ISI certification.
JAIPUR: A division bench of the high court while disposing of a PIL concerning heavy vehicular traffic at B-2 bypass on Friday directed the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) to complete the BRTS corridor and open it to public in the next six months. The bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice N K Jain-senior further directed JDA to complete the outer ring road project in the next two years to ease heavy vehicular traffic movement from B-2 bypass. The bench directed that the disputes regarding taking over of the possession of land acquired for ring road project should be expedited and completed within three months.
