Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ranu Bala Vs MoEF&CC & Others dated 05/05/2025. The applicant has alleged illegal felling of trees by the project proponent, a real estate developer company. The allegation of the applicant was that the project proponent has violated the norms by …
Bhubaneswar: National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) has expressed its interest to develop independent power plants (IPPs), in Orissa, in partnership with state PSUs like Orissa Thermal Power Corp (OPTCL), Orissa Mining Corp (OMC) and Orissa Hydro Power Corp (OHPC). Nalco CMD AK Srivastav and director finance BL Bagra met chief …
ANGUL: The State Government may rope in Nalco as a partner in the expansion of the fifth and the sixth units of Stateowned Ib Thermal Power Plant. Energy Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak's assurance comes after the Nalco Officers' Association leaders expressed desire before the company to set up an independent …
Coal supply to 1080 Mw captive power plant of the public sector National Aluminium Company (Nalco) located at Angul may be snapped soon as the Bharatpur coal mine in the Talcher coalfields which supplies coal to this plant is on the verge of closure due to non-availability of land. A …
Planned large-scale mechanised mining of minerals contributes substantially to the state and national exchequers. This is well-evident in the case of Orissa. In recent years, excepting a brief period during the 2008-09 economic downturn, mining revenue has made substantial contribution to the economic development of Orissa, helping the state metamorphose …
Satyasundar Barik Nalco roped in to do initital experimentation BHUBANESWAR: With Orissa projected to become one of the largest carbon emitting States in India, the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) is readying to adopt innovative technology that uses algae to capture carbon dioxide.
In the first such rejection by any ministry, Union Mines Minister B K Handique has shot down a proposal by the Finance Ministry that sought 10 per cent or more disinvestment in state-owned aluminium giant Nalco. The government holds 87.15 per cent in the navratna company that earned profits of …
Akshaya Kumar Saho Orissa has more than 1,530 million tonnes of bauxite reserve, according a conservative esti- mate. Major alumi- na and aluminium producers, encour- aged by the 2010 upward swing in the world markets, have decided to increase their vol- ume of production. THE MAMMOTH bauxite reserve of Orissa …
BHUBANESWAR: National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), country's leading producer and exporter aluminium, here on Monday reported commissioning of The High Concentration Slurry Disposal (HCSD) system in its 1080 MW captive power plant. Considered to be the latest and eco-friendly ways of ash disposal from modern power plants, the HCSD system …
BHUBANESWAR: While the State is reeling under power crisis and low generation of thermal power due to shortage of coal has further aggravated the situation, Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said the Ministry had no such report. To a question of Rudranarayan Pani in the Rajya Sabha yesterday, the Union …
Efforts on to check recurrence of naxal attack on bauxite mines BERHAMPUR: Efforts are on by the NALCO to impede recurrence of the major naxals attack on its bauxite mines in Koraput district of Orissa on April 12 night in 2009. The Maoists had targeted the bauxite mines located on …
B K Rout / Angul March 22, 2010, 1:03 IST Union Minister for Mines B K Handique has ruled out any possibility of disinvestment in National Aluminum Company (Nalco), putting to rest all speculation on the possibility of a sale in government stake of up to 10 per cent in …
Bhubaneswar, March 2: The Orissa government has cleared the proposal to lease a new bauxite mine in the southern district of Koraput to National Aluminimum Company Limited (Nalco), a central Navaratna public sector undertaking. The state government gave the nod to Nalco for the Pattangi mines after a decade. The …
BHUBANESWAR: The Centre has asked the State Government to submit a report to it on the multi-crore mining scam. Secretary in the Union Ministry of Mines Santa Sheela Nair today met Chief Secretary T K Mishra at the secretariat here and discussed steps taken by the State Government to curb …
NEW DELHI: State-run National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) on Wednesday announced its plans to set up mines and refinery project in the Andhra Pradesh and a second aluminium smelter in Orissa. According to an official statement issued here by the Ministry of Mines, Nalco plans to spend $1.2 billion in …
ANGUL: The rapid loading system at Bharatpur coal mine at Talcher, which was damaged in a fire was made operational last evening. It started functioning after one of the two sets of the damaged conveyor belts was replaced at a cost of Rs 2.50 lakh. This restored normal supply of …
The captive power plant of National Aluminium Company (Nalco) in Angul has started regulating power supply to the smelter, located next to it, owing to acute coal crisis. The Nalco CPP has reached super critical condition where it has only two days coal supply. The power supply to the Nalco …
ANGUL: Coal supply to Nalco captive power plant was hit on Tuesday following a fire mishap at the rapid loading system in linked Bharatapur coal mine at Talcher coalfield. The fire destroyed the conveyer of the rapid loading system of Nalco at the mine.
The situation in Nalco on Wednesday became more serious due to the acute shortage of coal with only less than 30,000 MT of the stock left for the captive power plant at Angul. Without arranging this most important raw material, the management recently operated 240 new pots at the smelter …
ANGUL: In order to dispose of over burdened ash in its ponds, Nalco has decided to give cash incentives to the lifters. At present Nalco is providing pond ash free of cost to the end-users. It has been decided to provide Rs 100 per cubic metre subjected to minimum lifting …
