Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Sushovan Saw Vs MoEF& Others dated 05/01/2024. The Original Application has been filed by the applicant, seeking direction to protect and preserve the forest land in Mouza Madumpur, J.L. No. 51, Plot No.473, Durgapur, West Bengal, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Sushovan Saw Vs MoEF& Others dated 05/01/2024. The Original Application has been filed by the applicant, seeking direction to protect and preserve the forest land in Mouza Madumpur, J.L. No. 51, Plot No.473, Durgapur, West Bengal, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Atindranath Chatterjee Vs West Bengal Pollution Control Board & Others dated 08/09/2021. The allegation is that M/s SRMB Srijan Pvt. Ltd., unit is operating an induction furnace factory and rolling mill producing TMT bar at Sagarbhanga, Durgapur, within Durgapur Municipal …
Compensatory afforestation is a dubious and controversial environmental “offset” that is adding to environmental damage instead of mitigating or compensating it. Compensatory afforestation may actually be accelerating the invasion of India’s forests by big corporations, in collusion with a permissive state, by legitimising the destruction of forests, greenwashing the land …
Durgapur: Scientists at a Durgapur-based research institute have developed a 'solar tree' made out of photovoltaic panels at a cost of Rs 3 lakh each. The 'tree', which will require less than 4 sqft space, can power about five households. Union science and technology minister Dr Harshvardhan, on his maiden …
KOLKATA: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Eastern zone bench, on Thursday, wanted to know from state authorities why a decision was taken to chop down over 8,000 full grown trees on a green verge in Durgapur. The NGT also passed an interim order, directing that no further degradation of ambient …
The state Assembly’s Standing Committee on Forest & Environment, while inspecting the secondary steel units in and around Durgapur, caught one unit flouting the West Bengal Pollution Control Board norms and ordered the authority to install devices to check air pollution immediately. The Standing Committee headed by Mr Srikanta Mahato …
Amid West Bengal government's repeated appeal to lift moratorium on environment clearance in highly-polluting industrial regions of Haldia and Asansol, a top Environment ministry official on Tuesday said the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) would take a decision on the same after evaluating the ongoing study in the region. “The …
The Indian Oil Corporation’s R910-crore LPG pipeline project has hit a 20-acre sticky patch in Haldia. The land is crucial since the oil major has planned a pumping station on it which would enable gas flow through a 300-km-long pipeline from Haldia to Durgapur and right up to Kalyani. An …
Minister for Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan has rejected the steel ministry's charge that her department was delaying mining clearances that could potentially lead to law and order issues in forested tribal areas. "It is somewhat unusual and new, the argument that complying with environmental and forest regulations leads to …
Renewal of consent to operate under Section 25 & 26 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, and Section 21 of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981.
