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 …
Union environment minister, Jayanthi Natarajan, at a recent meeting told the Group of Ministers (GoM) that the system of ‘go’ and ‘no-go’ has not been mandated by the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 (FCA) and does not have any legal standing. This is a significant departure from the stand advocated by …
Construction of a dam over the Kalu river in Murbad is crucial to address the water woes of Mumbai, the state government informed the Bombay High Court on Tuesday in response to a petition challenging the dam project. Assistant Government Pleader Vijay Patil told the court that the city’s population …
Mining projects will not get environmental clearance without the mandatory forest clearance, the environment ministry has decided. Despite pressure from the Planning Commission and other quarters within the government, the ministry has stuck to its guns and will not amend its rules to permit mining and other projects to use …
Forest Bench issues guidelines for future clearances The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the French cement company Lafarge to mine limestone in the forests of the East Khasi hills in Meghalaya. The Forest Bench, comprising Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices Aftab Alam and K.S. Radhakrishnan, accepted the contentions of …
What prevents the NE states from enforcing SC directive? SILCHAR: Hailakandi DFO Salman Uddin Chowdhury has once again brought to the fore how forests and its wealth are being looted by
Bhubaneswar: The case relating to violation of forest laws by Jindal Steel & Power for its six million tonne steel plant at Angul has taken a new turn with the state forest and environment department asking the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) to take necessary action under Environment Protection …
Can you love tigers but hate forests? This is the question that troubled me as I visited the middle of India last fortnight. I was in Nagpur, where local politicians, conservationists and officials were discussing what needed to be done in this chronically poor and backward region endowed with forests …
In response to requests received from various state governments, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Planning Commission, the MoE&F has decided to permit state governments to clear projects of upto 50 hectares of forest land for critical public utility infrastructure projects in 60 left-wing extremist affected districts without reference …
Making further concessions for creating public infrastructure in Naxalite areas, the government on Thursday ordered that projects like building of roads, schools or hospitals on forest land would not require clearance under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 as long as the total forest land to be diverted is not more …
Report of the Central Empowered Committeee (CEC) appointed by Supreme Court regarding illegal mining and other related activities in forest areas of Karnataka in response to the petition filed Samaj Parivartana Samudaya and others. The Writ Petition No.562 of 2009 deals with alleged illegal mining in the States of Andhra …
The environmental clearance for the 6mtpa integrated steel plant at Kerjang in Orissa by JSPL project was accorded on February 22nd, 2007. Stage-1 forest clearance was given on March 20th, 2010 and final forest clearanc eof 168.232 hectares was given on October 28th, 2010. In response to a complaint dated …
The High Court on Friday directed the State government to file objections in connection with the indiscriminate felling of trees in the City. Felling of trees on Suranjan Das Road a few weeks ago. DH file photoHearing a suo motu petition, the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar …
Says Move To Do Away Nod For Coal Mining Will Open Floodgates New Delhi: After relenting on the Posco clearance, environment minister Jairam Ramesh seems to be in no mood to bend backwards further. In a strong riposte to the coal ministry and the PMO, his ministry has replied that …
Degraded land in Gurgaon was nurtured back to health over a decade. But instead of serving as a green lung, it has been sold to a private developer, reports BRIJESH PANDEY Green charade A forest nurtured by the state government in Gurgaon is now private property BENDING RULES to allot …
Read comments of the Ministry of Environment & Forests on a draft note for Cabinet Committee on infrastructure regarding need for making available more coal bearing areas for enhancing coal production. It has been shocking to see the immense pressure that has been developing from various quarters to reduce the …
The Naveen Patnaik government is facing court strictures and opposition criticism for irregularities in grant of mining leases. WHEN Naveen Patnaik stepped into his father Biju Patnaik's shoes and donned the mantle of leadership of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) to become the Chief Minister of Orissa for the first …
THE government is formulating a new strategy to allocate coal mines, setting aside the controversial move by the environment ministry to categorise coal-bearing areas in the country as
After Posco India, Vedanta Aluminium, and Jindal Steel & Power (JSPL), Essar Steel has come under fire from green activists for alleged violation of environmental and forest laws. Wildlife Society of Orissa (WSO), on the basis of documents obtained under the Right to Information Act, has alleged that Essar Steel …
