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 …
Miners propose to set up medical college, university in mining areas Justice M B Shah Commission, engaged in enquiry into illegal mining in Odisha and other states, completed its hearing on Sunday. It is likely to submit final report on Odisha in May-June period before the end of its term …
Probe panel hears cases of 27 mines The Justice MB Shah commission enquiring into illegal mining issues in Odisha on Wednesday will hear on violation of Rule-37 of Mineral Concession Rules (MCR)-1960, an exercise that remained incomplete in its last hearing. The probe panel on Tuesday heard cases of 27 …
BHUBANESWAR: The M B Shah Commission, inquiring into illegal mining in Odisha, will resume hearing at its headquarters in Ahmedabad from Tuesday, official sources said. The commission is slated to hear views of miners having lease to extract minerals from 57 mines on various violations and the contentious rule 37 …
Asks state, Posco and Geomin to give written submissions by Apr 5 The Supreme Court on Thursday concluded two year long hearing on a case related to grant of mineral prospecting licence (PL) for Khandadhar iron ore mines in favour of Posco and reserved the judgment. It has directed all …
Delay in getting physical possession of land and environment and forest clearances has put Darlipalli Super Thermal Power Plant in Sundargarh and Gajmara Power Project in Dhenkanal district of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) on hold, said regional executive director of NTPC (Eastern region-II) Malvinder S Soin, here on …
NTPC Ltd's Rs 11,400 crore Darlipali thermal power project in Orissa is hanging fire, with the state government continuing to drag its feet on clearances. Even as the Darlipali project and the linked Dulanga coal mine continue to be stuck for want of requisite clearances and the physical possession of …
Project marks CIL's foray into power sector, will take proposal to board in few months Coal India, the world's largest coal producer, plans to take a proposal to set up Rs 9,000 crore power plant in Odisha to its board for approval in the next couple of months. The 2x800 …
New tools for malaria control, artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) and long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) were recently introduced across India. We estimated the impact of universal coverage of ACT and ACT plus LLINs in a setting of hyperendemic, forest malaria transmission.
In the wake of the CBI raid implicating an officer of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in arranging green clearances for certain mining projects in Orissa, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, the ministry has for now put on hold all projects associated with the implicated consultant. Sources said a limestone …
New Delhi: Says state didn’t comply with SC order on grant of iron ore Bhushan Power & Steel (BPSL) has asked the Supreme Court to initiate contempt proceedings against the Orissa government for failing to comply with the apex court’s order that asked it to recommend BPSL’s case for grant …
Odisha-based Geomin Minerals, which has been locked in a legal battle with Korean giant Posco for an iron ore prospecting licence in the Kandadhar mines in Sundergarh district, on Wednesday opposed a Supreme Court move to ask the Centre to make an assessment of all potential contenders for the licence. …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that it may lob the issue of granting a prospective iron ore licence to South Korean giant Posco back to the central government. The top court raised this possibility and sought responses on Wednesday from all parties fighting over the grant of the Khandadhar …
The National Green Tribunal's decision to suspend the environmental clearance given to Posco vindicates the project's critics. ON March 30, the Principal Bench of the newly formed National Green Tribunal (NGT) delivered a momentous decision suspending the environmental clearance (EC) given to the South Korean transnational corporation, Posco, to set …
This Executive summary of Bijahan Coal Mine of Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd. shows the detail of project and their Environment Impact Assessment and Environment Management Plan.
The villagers affected by mining activities in Lanjiberna and its vicinity in Rajgangpur Assembly constituency have urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to depute an independent team to assess the environmental hazards and the resultant problems faced by them. Chepo Ekka, Litu Minz and others in their petition on …
Farmers of Bihaband and Danatoli villages of Rajgangpur block in Sundargarh district are a worried lot despite bumper crop. They have been compelled to shift their harvested paddy to a safe place to avoid damage from water-logging. Others with standing crops are also staring at immediate crop damage due to …
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the country’s biggest thermal power producer, hopes to start construction work on its 1,600 MW (2x800) coal-fired plant at Darlipalli in western Odisha’s Sundergarh district from January 2013. The maharatna firm will start work on the super thermal power project soon after getting possession of …
Even as Union minister of state for chemicals and fertilisers Srikant Jena accused Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik of colluding in a mining scam that caused a loss of Rs 4 lakh crore to the state exchequer, the state steel and mines department on Tuesday said it has sent demand …
Non-payment of dues worth Rs 680 cr may lapse acquisition process After an expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the Union environment ministry deferred green clearance for the Rs 16,000-crore Ultra Mega Power Plant (UMPP) in Odisha, the mega power plant faces hurdle over private land acquisition. The entire process of …
The Justice MB Shah Commission probing the alleged mining scam in three states, today said the nature of violation varied from one to another. "The nature of violation is different from one state to another. We have probed the mining scam in Karnataka, Goa and now Odisha. But the violation …
