Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
South Korean steel major Posco has sought more time from the Centre for its Rs 53,000 crore multi-product SEZ in Orissa as it is yet to get adequate land from the state government. An inter-ministerial Board of Approval (BoA), chaired by Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar, will consider the request from …
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court on Thursday issued notices to the state government, Centre and the Adani group owned Mundra Port Special Economic Zone (MPSEZ) and Kutch district collector over two PILs by villagers alleging encroachment on village land. A PIL filed by residents of Bitta and Luni villages in …
New Delhi South Korean steel major Posco and 16 other SEZ developers have sought more time from the government to execute their respective projects. Posco India, a subsidiary of Posco, is yet to acquire land from the Orissa government for its SEZ. The Board of Approval (BoA) for SEZ projects, …
Andhra Pradesh which has 75 notified special economic zones (SEZs), which is the highest number of SEZs in any State in the country, has attracted investment of about Rs 15,000 crore. These SEZs registered exports of Rs 13,000 crore during the financial year 2010-11 and exports are expected to double …
MUMBAI: The Centre has circulated a comprehensive paper on proposed policy changes relating to land requirement for SEZs. "We have to submit our suggestions to the Centre," a senior state bureaucrat told TOI. He said if the proposed changes were accepted, then Maharashtra would be the biggest beneficiary, since quite …
New Delhi In a written missive to chief secretaries, the Centre has urged them to ramp up their internal working process at the earliest, to ensure faster implementation of the national manufacturing policy at the ground level. The idea is to expedite acquisition of land for the proposed National Industrial …
Calcutta, Nov. 7: Industry association Assocham today urged the Bengal government to play a greater role in the process of land acquisition to set up industries. “Land holdings are highly fragmented in Bengal. If some private investor wants a big chunk of land to set up industry, they should be …
The SEZ sector has grown significantly since the enactment of the SEZ Act 2005 and Rules in 2006, in terms of the number of SEZs, investment attracted, and employment and exports generated. While these achievements are irrefutable and significant, a comprehensive analytical assessment of the performance of the sector and …
Indore SEZ is the only Green Field Multi-product SEZ in India that has witnessed a tremendous rise in exports as compared to the last year.In the year 2010-11, the export from Indore SEZ has been recorded at Rs 1,242 crore, compared to Rs 494 crore during the previous year. During …
Land acquisition woes seem to be far from over for industries setting up projects in West Bengal. The Videocon group has urged the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government to facilitate the acquisition process for speedy implementation of its Rs 20,000-crore steel and power plants in Burdwan district. Faced by acquisition …
Jakarta: India will keep polluting industries out of proposed mega industrial towns aimed at boosting the share of manufacturing in the country's Gross Domestic Product, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said here today. "What is being proposed is... from the perspective of investing in green technologies. We are very …
PANJIM: Data submitted to the high powered Regional Plan (RP) 2021 committee by Mines and Geology Department has revealed that there are 117 active mining leases, which is contrary to the figure of 90 active mining leases projected by the department before the authorities. Release II of RP 2021, with …
The Uttarakhand High Court's decision striking down the law restricting purchase of agriculture land by outsiders to 250 square metres is likely to have far-reaching implications. According to observers here, the decision will force the Uttarakhand Government to rectify longstanding lacunae in the existing land law. The High Court had …
Gandhinagar: Water woes in the Petroleum Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR), an important industrial hotspot along Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, may come to an end soon. The PCPIR, coming up over 480 sq km in the Dahej-Bharuch region, will get a two-km-long weir off the mouth of Narmada river at …
Pakistan wants China to construct a rail link through Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) and a network of oil and gas pipelines, which will help cut costs for Beijing's burgeoning energy needs and ensure mutual benefit. Pakistan has also offered to be part of a Chinese plan to build a new Silk Road …
The Karnataka government, which is in the thick of controversy over acquisition of land for several big-ticket investors, is in no mood to accept certain changes proposed in the new Land Acquisition and Resettlement & Rehabilitation Bill tabled in Parliament last week. Instead, the government is in the process of …
The Tata group has been told that it is not entitled to the land it was allotted for its ambitious aerospace projects in Hyderabad, an embarrassing development for both Ratan Tata and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy. Hyderabad’s urban planning agency is arguing that the land which was …
New Delhi The Union Cabinet on Monday cleared the Land Acquisition Bill, with provisions that would make it easier for companies to buy land. The Bill allows land owners to claim compensation of only four times the market value of the plot they sell, as against six times proposed in …
The Jharkhand industrial policy (draft) 2011 has been formulated with the basic objective of optimally utilizing the available resources in planned and systematic manner for the industrialization of the state. It is aimed at enhancing value addition of the natural and human resources in an efficient manner to generate additional …
New Delhi Public sector steel major SAIL has dropped its plan to set up a stainless steel special economic zone (SEZ) at Salem in Tamil Nadu. Instead, the company has decided to set up a wind energy plant to meet its renewable energy requirement. The government-owned steel major has already …
