Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …
New Delhi Concerned over delays in execution of projects due to inter-ministerial differences, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a high-level meeting to resolve issues like coal shortages and environment clearances with the respective ministers on July 1.
Power ministry has asked environment ministry to withdraw a recent directive that requires projects to secure forest clearances before beginning other work. The power ministry has said this directive would delay development of thermal and hydropower projects. Before the environment ministry
New Delhi The Planning Commission has asked infrastructure ministries to try to achieve higher targets in 2011-12 than what they did in each of the first four years of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. The panel, which is tasked with the responsibility to fix annual milestones for the infrastructure sector, has …
The Central Government is planning to set up five new power transmission lines with private sector participation at an estimated cost of Rs.6,485 crore (worth over $1.40 billion). These planned transmission lines would help power evacuation from the proposed coastal generation projects in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. The total …
New Delhi Power project developers facing coal crisis have pinned their hopes on the meeting called by PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to review the progress of key infrastructure sectors like coal and power.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convened a meeting on June 9 to discuss the continued shortage of coal, the poor performance of the power sector and the ways and means to give a big thrust to the infrastructure sector in the remaining part of the XI Plan. The meeting was …
Kolkata For each wagon of coal that Sajjan Jindal sends to his steel plant in the Bellary belt of Karnataka, it takes four layers of committees at the central government to clear the consignment. But he can consider himself lucky. Had he bought the coal from the market, as hundreds …
The Union Coal Ministry has outrightly rejected the proposal of the Union Power Ministry to stop e-auction of coal pleading that the e-route for selling coal needs to be continued to meet the demands of small users.
New Delhi The power ministry has proposed that Coal India Ltd (CIL) be directed to stop the premium sale of thermal coal through e-auction route and divert the supply to power plants facing fuel crisis despite coal linkage. The producer can be allowed to make an across-the-board hike in its …
The 4,000 mega watt Bedabahal ultra mega power project (UMPP) in Orissa, which has been held up because of want of clearances from the government, has finally received the green signal from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). All the three coal blocks associated with the UMPP- Meenakshi A, …
After a consultation process spanning over two years ended in a deadlock with car manufacturers, the government has finally decided to frame auto fuel efficiency norms within this month and put them out for public objections and comments in May. Over the last one year, the government and the car …
The Planning Commission has set up a working group on power to review capacity addition during the 11th Plan and formulate strategy for the next plan period. The group, headed by Power Secretary Uma Shankar, met for the first time yesterday. Officials from the power ministry, Central Electricity Authority and …
The ministry of power will soon move a Cabinet note seeking budgetary support to compensate NTPC Ltd for shutting down its Loharinag Pala hydro power plant in Uttarakhand on religious and environment grounds. Though the exact compensation for closing the project is yet to be ascertained, it is expected to …
Govt plans cash, other incentives to fast-track entry of efficient home appliances Home appliances that save as much as 50% more power than their most energy-efficient versions today could hit the markets in about a year under a government's rewards plan for manufacturers. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), an …
Capital secures 300 MW from the Central government, narrows the shortage figure to 200 MW The Delhi State Load Despatch Centre, along with distribution companies (discoms), has projected that the Capital may see its power demand rise to an unprecedented 5,100 MW this summer. The previously recorded highest demand, in …
The power ministry has warned that denying green clearances to stranded coal projects could jeopardise commissioning of plants that would add nearly 24,000 mega watts over the next two years. Ahead of the group of ministers on Thursday, it has said upcoming power plants would remain non-operational due to paucity …
With no solution emerging out of the earlier deliberations, the group of ministers (GoM), set up by the government to sort out issues related to coal mining in No-Go areas, as classified by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), is meeting tomorrow. This is the second meeting of the …
