<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Srikanta Samanta Vs State of West Bengal dated 13/11/2024.</p> <p>The matter related to a dumping ground located
"I am falling ill in this bus. There are elderly people, women and children. It is getting dark and we are insecure in the middle of this jungle. My cellphone battery is running out. Soon I will lose all contact. Please help us,' Maya Roy (53) tells The Indian Express over her cellphone. A resident of Entally and a patient of hypertension, she is undergoing a nightmare since Saturday night. Without food and water, huddled inside a private bus, she is stuck up near the Lodhasuli forests in West Midnapore on the Orissa-Bengal border.
Over 60 trains had to be cancelled, 40 diverted and many other short-terminated under the East Coast railway zone after the deluge in the Howrah-Chennai main line. Traffic was hit on highways and other roads due to breaches caused by gushing water. Relief operations continued on war-footing in flood-ravaged districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Mayurbhanj, Jajpur and Kendrapara where about 11.4 lakh people in over 1,000 villages were affected. The state Government has released Rs 25 crore to four departments to start repair and restoration activities in flood-affected areas. West Bengal
Although there has been a temporary let up of rains, the flood situation in the two Medinipur districts remained grim on Friday. While overseeing the flood-hit districts, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya described the flood situation, which claimed 25 lives and affected over 22 lakh people as "unprecedented and alarming".
The Tatas' small car is likely to roll out of the Singur plant as scheduled in October and vendors are also getting their projects readied, Tata Ryerson Managing Director Sandipan Chakravarty said. Mr. Chakravarty, whose company is slated to supply a substantial portion of the components for the Nano, said that he planned to get his plant ready by August. The issue of the rollout was at the fore again in view of the water-logging caused by the recent spell of heavy rains and flash floods in the State. Portions of the project area were submerged but the core area was not affected. Mr.
There have been allegations that party affiliations are determining the amount of relief The death toll in the floods that have ravaged West Bengal's Purbo and Paschim Medinipur districts has risen to 25. More than 2.2 million people have been affected. Road and rail links with the southern States have been severely disrupted. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee reviewed on Friday the situation in the two districts with senior officials in Kolaghat in Purbo Medinipur district and discussed ways to step up rescue and relief operations.
The flood situation in South Bengal on Thursday has worsened with death toll rising to nine. Worried by the gravity of the situation in East Medinipur and West Medinipur the state government has deployed three companies of Army personnel to expedite relief and rescue operation. Three more companies of the Army have been asked to join the relief operation from Friday. Eastern Air Command has also been pressed for dropping food packets and relief materials in Flood-hit areas of West and East Midnapur since Wednesday evening while flood waters submerged parts of a new district, Bankura.
Two of the six power units that had collapsed in Kolaghat on Tuesday were revived this evening, but the districts still stayed dark because generation was low. The 210MW units had collapsed after the switchyard of the Kolaghat thermal power plant got flooded. Six pumps helped clear the water in the switchyard. "But there was a thick layer of slush in the switchyard which had to be cleared. This led to delay in repairs,' a power department official said.
If the impending taxi strike was not enough, here comes another strike, which is set to hit both commuters and car owners hard. The West Bengal Petroleum Dealers Association has called a three-day strike in all the 2,000 odd petrol pumps in the state and the city from 30 June onwards in protest against the alleged "forcible supply' of costly branded fuels by an oil Public Sector Undertaking (PSU).
Normal life out of gear in Orissa, 50 villages in Balasore badly affected Flood fury: A trailer truck that plunged into the water when a bridge on the national highway between Balasore and Kharagpur was washed away in the floods. More than 16 lakh people are affected in flash floods that have inundated vast areas in West Bengal's Paschim and Purbo Medinipur districts following torrential rains over the past two days. Four people were killed and three reported missing in the two districts, according to reports reaching here on Wednesday.
Alarmed by the magnitude of the flood in East and West Medinipur, the state government called in the Army and Air Force to expedite rescue and relief operation. Five people have been killed and over 16 lakh have been affected by the floods. Those killed, includes the former confidential assistant of Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, Gautam Basu. He and two others were swept away in the flash floods in the Keleghai river on Tuesday night.
