Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Youth United for Sustainable Environmental Trust Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 12/03/2024. The matter related to illegal sand mining in Brahmani river at Gopinathpur. Approach road has been constructed which is obstructing the free …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Sridhar Samal Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 06/03/2024. The matter related to pollution caused by Talcher Coalfield under Mahanadi Coalfields Limited in the course of its operation. It was said that on a daily …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Prafulla Samantray Vs Union of India & Others dated 31/01/2023. The appeal was filed seeking quashing of the Environmental Clearance dated September 12, 2018 granted by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change to M/s …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Alekha Chandra Tripathy Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 26/11/2021. An application was filed in the NGT against the Jindal Steel & Power Limited for unauthorisedly usurping the Nandira river in the district Angul, Odisha …
Between 2020 and June 2020, several ash pond accidents have been reported across India. These accidents have caused deaths, extensive pollution of the water, air, soil and loss of property. Unfortunately, the public outrage associated with coal ash pollution remains limited to big disasters. The slow poisoning of communities living …
BHUBANESWAR: A 45-year-old man admitted in Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Sambalpur, died of swine flu on Tuesday, taking the H1N1 toll in the state to 30 so far, official sources said. Fourteen more people (nine men and five women) tested positive for H1N1, taking the …
Bhubaneswar: Although the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) makes tall claims of monitoring reuse and disposal of industrial waste, 23 million tonne of waste is lying undisposed in the state, which can be extremely hazardous for the environment. The forest and environment minister, Bikram Keshari Arukh, on Tuesday said …
BHUBANESWAR: Though heat wave condition eased out across Odisha, Bhubaneswar, which recorded 40.3 degree Celsius, remained the hottest city in the State on Thursday. Meanwhile, the toll due to sunstroke climbed to 30 in the State. The IMD has predicted heavy rainfall at one or two places over north Odisha …
BHUBANESWAR: The mercury went up a couple of notches across the state on Monday, with no respite in sight for at least in a week. Angul recorded the maximum temperature at 47°C, the highest in more than a decade, said a senior officer at IMD centre here. Even the state …
As both surface and ground water of large parts of Angul and Dhenkanal district is polluted due to coalmines, power plants, aluminium and steel industries, concerned citizens, social activists, lawyers and people’s representatives have demanded piped water supply from both Mahanadi and Brahmani rivers to the people of these two …
The Mahanadi and the Brahmani rivers flow around 250 km in Angul and Dhenkanal district. Here, the Government allocated as much as 1,028.039 cusec of water to total 26 industries where as only 11.38 cusec of water was allocated only to three urban bodies of these two districts. The aggregate …
To involve children of 400 schools from Nov Wild Orissa, working in the field of wildlife conservation since 1996, will hold a bird study and conservation programme involving students of 400 schools in the State from November. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) Odisha SS Srivastava, as chief guest, inaugurated …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Anil Kumar Nanda & Anr. V/s. MoEF & Ors. dated 17/10/2014 regarding the coal tar plant at village Ekagharia Talcher in the district of Angul Orissa.
ANGUL: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked Chief Secretary to submit action taken report (ATR) within four weeks of the receipt the order regarding massive tree felling by Mahanadi Coalfield Limited (MCL) in Talcher for mining activities. The NHRC issued the notice to the State Government in July …
Police lathi-charge agitators after group clash It was people’s resistance that forced the administration to put off a public hearing on environmental clearance for coal mining at Machhakata in Chhendipada Block of Odisha’s Angul district on Thursday. The State Pollution Control Board along with the local administration had made arrangements …
Even though the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the issue of coal block allotments next week, the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) will conduct a public hearing for Mahaguj Colliery Limited at Chhendipada in Angul district on Thursday. The hearing is opposed by activists and environmentalists on the …
People of Kaniha are up in arms against rampant pollution by hundreds of coal laden trucks plying through the villages to and from Jindal India Thermal power plant. The plant authorities are using the roads built by Roads and Building Department for coal transport causing inconvenience to the travelling people …
Commissioning of this unit is part of the Rs 2,600- crore contract given to the company by Jindal India Thermal Power State-owned BHEL today said it has commissioned the first unit of 600 MW capacity of a thermal power project at Angul in Odisha. The commissioning of this unit is …
An Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) study revealed thermal power plants contribute to rise in ambient temperature (temperature of the surroundings) by 2 to 3 degree Celsius. Most of the thermal power plants in the state are located in Sambalpur-Jharsuguda-Dhenkanal-Angul belt. In March 2014, the Central Pollution Control Board …
The forest land is to be diverted in Angul, Athmallik, Rairakhol and Sambalpur to make way for PGCIL's transmission line Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) has obtained Stage-I forest clearance from the Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) for diversion of 379.57 hectares (ha) forest land for …
