Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Power equipment manufacturer Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has commissioned the second 40 MW hydropower generating unit at the Teesta low dam hydro electric project (HEP) stage-IV in West Bengal, the company said on Monday. "Just a month after the commissioning of the first 40 MW hydro electric generating unit …
Hydro power is a renewable and environment friendly source of energy. As hydro power stations have the inherent ability for instantaneous operations, they are more responsive than most other energy sources, for meeting peak demand and improving reliability of the power system. As such it is important that existing hydro …
Tezpur: Chatra Mukti Sangram Samitee (CMSS) members were on Thursday arrested at Gerukamukh while they were protesting against the ongoing construction of the 2000 mw Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power project (LSHEP) in Dhemaji district of Assam. The protesters were demonstrating against the NHPC starting reconstruction of the dam after it …
Sixteen hydropower projects are in various stages of construction in the northeast, DoNER Minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday. “Presently, 16 hydropower projects aggregating to 5,576 MW are under various stages of construction for the growth and development of the northeastern region, including Sikkim,” the minister for Development of North …
The Kolkata-based Eastern Zone (EZ) Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) admitted on July 30, 2015, an appeal (No-04/2015/EZ) Pradip Kumar Bhuyan and another versus Union of India and Others) that challenged the environment clearance accorded by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to the …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Yog Raj V/s State of Himanchal Pradesh & Ors. dated 30/07/2015 regarding damage caused to the houses of the Applicants because of construction (especially tunnel) and other project activities carried out by the Project Proponent in …
India's largest hydroelectric project has been given all the requisite clearances by the environment ministry in spite of repeated rejections by its own experts. The 3,000-Mw Dibang river valley mega dam in Arunachal Pradesh, once fully built, will wipe clean 4,577 hectares of forest that is also the homeland of …
The projects have to be implemented by 2017 and the PSUs and ministries would be free to use the power so generated for either self-use or sell it to third party or discoms. To boost the country’s energy security, the government has decided to give a push to solar power …
Three of NHPC’s four stalled projects revived NHPC, the state-run hydroelectric power producer, which has often got stuck with environmentally sensitive projects, may be on the cusp of turning a new leaf on the back of progress made on three out of its four stalled projects and higher power generation …
The KMSS has said that the experts' committee on Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border is divided in its opinion on the dam - while the local experts are against the dam with its present blueprint, the experts deputed by the Centre are in favour of going …
In all, thirteen student and youth organisations of Tinsukia district had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 4 last year expressing serious concern over the environment and forest clearance being recommended by the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) on the River Valley Project and the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) …
The Ministry of Environment, Forrest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has accorded environment clearance for construction of the 2,880-MW Dibang Multipurpose Project in Lower Dibang Valley district of Arunachal Pradesh by the NHPC Ltd. The total estimated cost of the project is Rs 25347 crore. The project is likely to be …
State-owned NHPC has received environmental clearance for its Dibang multipurpose hydropower cum flood moderation project, worth over Rs 25,000 crore, in Arunachal Pradesh. "Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate change (MOEF&CC;) vide its Order dated May 19, 2015 has accorded environmental clearance for Dibang Multipurpose project (2880 MW) subject to …
The government has asked the Supreme Court for six months to undertake a complete assessment of the feasibility of allowing construction of six new hydropower projects in Uttarakhand. The environment ministry has said that it will file a fresh affidavit at that time. Speaking to ET, the government's lawyer ADN …
The Uttarakhand government has accused the Centre of crippling its economy in a submission before the Supreme Court on Monday. The state government told the court that the Union environment ministry's delay in resolving the fate of a number of hydropower projects has reduced Uttarakhand from a power surplus state …
The Supreme Court today granted two more weeks to the Centre for filing "comprehensive" environment and ecological impact report of 18, out of total 24 hydroelectric power projects, to be set up on Alaknanda and Bhagirathi river basins in Uttarakhand. A bench of justices Dipak Misra and U U Lalit, …
Awaits Ministry’s nod for formal inauguration The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) commissioned the first two units (200 MW each) of the 800 MW Kol Dam project yesterday after two machines were synchronised with the northern grid successfully. The other two units, of same capacity, would be commissioned soon, NTPC …
Vehemently opposing the construction of Stage I and II Mega dams by NHPC and NEEPCO over Siang river, the Siang Indigenous Farmers’ Forum (SIFF) has threatened to launch a massive agitation if these projects were not scrapped immediately. These dams are estimated to be 6000 MW and 3750 MW respectively …
The 24 government-run companies that have promised to generate 18,819 MW of green energy capacity in five years include NTPC Ltd., Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd., Coal India Ltd., National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Ltd. and SAIL (India) Ltd. Other than power generation, Green Brilliance Energy Pvt. Ltd. and CVC India …
The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation’s (NHPC) Chamera Power Station (stage-I) has so far supplied 5339.91 million units (MUs) as free power to the state government as its 12 per cent free share of the total power generated from the project since its commissioning in 1994. In an official communiqué issued …
