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 …
IMG recommends bank guarantee deduction of Tata Power and Hindalco JSW Steel and Himachal Emta Power today lost a coal block in West Bengal, while Tata Power and Hindalco Industries are likely to lose the bank guarantee for their block in Jharkhand. Today, the government cancelled the allocation of the …
Sudhir Kant Sahay is honorary executive director of the company Even as the Coal Ministry on Monday decided to cancel the allocation of the Gourangdih ABC block in West Bengal, owned by Sajjan Jindal’s JSW Steel Ltd. and Himachal EMTA, it delayed action against SKS Ispat, linked to Sudhir Kant …
Says reserves to last only four years more Has Hindalco Industries’ lease for Odisha’s only operational private coal mine been a bonanza or a carefully husbanded and now depleting asset? According to the state mining department, the company has so far excavated about 16 million tonnes from this one, at …
Mulls clause to mandate participation in tariff-based bidding for power The brouhaha over coal block allocations has goaded the government into correcting the policy imperfections that have long prevailed in India’s coal mining sector. It is planning a clause to make it mandatory for captive miners to take part in …
The fate of 17 coal blocks is on line as the inter-Ministerial group (IMG), headed by Zohra Chatterjee, is likely to recommend de-allocation for not only their failure to develop the mining assets within the given timeframe but also indulging in misrepresentation of facts, supplying fraudulent documents and giving misleading …
Govt has already issued notices to 58 blocks: 33 allotted to govt firms & 25 to pvt entities Amid the raging row over coal block allocation, as many as 90 mines face the threat of de-allocation as these are under scanner for non-production. Of these, 58 coal blocks are in …
Government on Monday ruled out cancellation of any coal block allocation till the inter- ministerial group (IMG), constituted to review the issue, submits its report. “We have constituted the IMG, which is reviewing 58 coal blocks. It has been asked to submit its report in a time-bound manner and latest …
Environmental objections were overruled by Empowered Group of Ministers, in the face of expert concerns Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan successfully lobbied the Central government to overrule environmental objections to mining at Mahan, one of the fields at stake in the spiralling coal allocations scandal, documents obtained by …
An inter-ministerial panel under the coal ministry will decide the fate of allocation of 17 captive coal blocks allotted to big corporate houses, next week. This is on the back of severe delays in their development. This comes close on the heels of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigating …
New Delhi The axe is likely to fall on about two dozen captive coal block allottees that feature in both the CAG list of companies making windfall gains and the list of entities that were issued show-cause notices by the coal ministry last year for sluggish progress on their respective …
Hundreds of farmers on Monday gheraoed the regional office of Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) demanding an explanation on the decision to keep in abeyance the closure notice issued to Hindalco Industries Limited (HIL) following two successive a s h pond breaches. After waiting in vain for an hour …
Rejecting charges of wrongdoing in coal block allocations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said the government has already initiated the process of cancelling mines to companies which failed to develop them and action would be taken against 'wrongdoers' if any. "We have initiated action to cancel the allocations of …
About 15 kms from the idyllic hilly town of Semiliguda in South Odisha’s Koraput district, the stage is set for an encore of the Niyamgiri-type agitation, as the tribals gather at the foothills of Mali Parbat to protest against bauxite mining by Hindalco Industries Ltd in the area. Sharing the …
New Delhi As many as 50 of the 57 captive coal blocks allocated to private firms, which are at the centre of a row over a damning CAG report, haven’t yet got various other statutory clearances. Coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal cited this and the fact that 20 of these blocks …
Close on the heels of the ash pond breach in Hindalco Industries Limited, fly ash from Shyam Metalics and Energy Limited at Pandloi village has reportedly damaged large tract of land in Nishanbhanga village under Rengali police limits of the district. The rain-washed ash slurry has flowed into agricultural land …
The state water resource department has filed a FIR against the Hirakud smelter unit of Hindalco for its failure to check leakage of ash slurry from the captive power plant of the company into the nearby farm fields and canal. The canal division junior engineer P K Patel of Sambalpur …
While the CAG is right about resource allocation through competitive bidding, mineral resources are universally let out on annual lease and not auctioned off for a lump sum. India needs to follow global precedents and not reinvent the wheel. Shortly before the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster, the US interior …
The stock underperformed the market by falling over 8% in past four trading session as compared to 1% rise in benchmark Sensex Hindalco is trading lower by 3% at Rs 111 on reports that the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OPSCB) has asked the company to shut down the captive …
The beleaguered Hindalco Industries Limited was asked to shut down its captive power plants (CPPs) by the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) on Saturday, two days after its ash pond breached leading to severe crop damage at Hirakud. The board summoned Hindalco’s top officials for a personal hearing and …
Government auditor CAG on Friday said private firms were likely to gain Rs 1.86 lakh crore from coal blocks that were allocated to them on nomination basis instead of competitive bidding, which will result in a loss to the national exchequer. The CAG in its report, tabled in Parliament, names …
