A Bill that seeks to amend the existing law governing exploration and production of oil and gas as well as delink petroleum operations from mining operations was passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday (March 12, 2025). The Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Amendment Bill, 2024, is aimed at boosting investment …
The statement of the tribal affairs ministry is contrary to its position stated repeatedly over the past year Whether consent from tribal village councils is essential before using forests could hinge on a case being heard by the National Green Tribunal on the Thoubal multipurpose dam project, which has been …
KOLHAPUR: Top villagers have decided to approach the Supreme Court over the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) recent decision over allowing Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) to use the abandoned stone quarry as landfill site for solid waste management. The quarry comes under the Top gram panchayat's limits. The gram panchayat had …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Ajay Kumar Negi & Ors. Vs Union of India & Ors. dated 07/07/2015 regarding settiing up of the Tidong - I Hydro Electric Power Project (100 MW) in District Kinnaur of Himachal Pradesh on River Tidong.
BENGALURU: Environmentalist Madhav Gadgil says he never expected his report on the Western Ghats to be accepted by the Government of India. In the city recently to deliver a special lecture on the Western Ghats, he told Express, “More pervasive in the globalised world of today, the destruction of environment, …
Passes resolution in gram sabha meeting; submits petition to district administration A village panchayat in the district has called for the closure of a factory, which it accuses of polluting the environment and emitting toxic fumes. The Machakavundampalayam Panchayat passed the resolution during a gram sabha meeting accusing the battery-processing …
Tribals opposed to the formation of Rourkela into a municipal corporation have got a shot in the arm as the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs informed the the Odisha Government of the requirement of mandatory settlement of rights under the Forest Rights Act even in urban areas. Invoking Section 12 …
The SC granted Odisha six months to resolve the issue during which the state was allowed resumption of operations in eight mines With the Union government getting Lok Sabha clearance for the Mines and Minerals (Development And Regulation) Amendment (MMDRA) Bill, it is becoming clearer that Odisha will not be …
It seems that protection of environment and forests is no more the agenda of MOEFCC. The same path is being followed by the State government of U.P. which in spite of saving its natural resources, is deeply responsible for violation of Article 48 A of the Indian constitution which casts …
Environment ministry readies draft, which allows industry to fell trees in traditional forest areas without consent of gram sabhas After a lot of back and forth, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is ready with a notification to dilute tribal rights that would make it possible for most industries to …
The Orissa steel and mines department has said no to the Union Panchayatiraj Ministry’s proposal to give gram sabhas rights over major minerals. In 2013, the ministry had sent a draft Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas Bill, 2013 to the states, seeking their views on it. The draft bill suggested …
Hundreds of Dangaria Kandha tribal men and women joined a large group of anti-displacement activists of the Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti atop the Niyamgiri hills in Odisha’s Kalahandi district on Sunday and burnt copies of the land acquisition Ordinance recently promulgated by the Narendra Modi Government. “Pro-corporate” The tribals and activists, …
District Collector A. Gnanasekaran has asked people of Nallavanpalayam village to keep their surroundings clean and tidy in order to prevent outbreak of communicable diseases. Addressing at their Gram Sabha meet organised in view of Republic Day Mr. Gnanasekaran asked people to avoid open area defecation and insisted that every …
Members of the Sanyukt Sangarsh Samiti are divided over the decision taken by some of their leaders to suspend the protest against the eco-sensitive zone clause until March 31 on a verbal assurance by Chief Minister Harish Rawat that the clause will not be implemented in Uttarkashi. Some leaders of …
The State Government has rejected over as many as 1.45 lakh individual and community claims under the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006 till December last year. The State Government has informed the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs that 1,45,225 individual claims, 228 community claims and 13 community forest right claims …
The district authorities in Sirsa have announced that village panchayats that work towards conservation of drinking water will be awarded. Sirsa Deputy Commissioner Nikhil Gajraj, who presided over a meeting of officials today for improving supply of drinking water to people in the district, also issued a toll free number …
Calls for withdrawal of order issued by Environment Ministry The Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs says that there is no evidence that the process under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) delays projects, even as there is pressure from the Ministry of Environment to dilute the law and do away with …
Solan, December 23: With gram sabhas failing to identify eligible families that are supposed to benefit from the centrally-sponsored National Food Security Scheme introduced in October last year in the state, the scheme had failed to benefit the targeted population. Out of the about 35,000 families enlisted under the Public …
A resolution towards the rejection of Kasturirangan report was accepted at a public grievance readdressal meeting here on Thursday. The meeting was convened at Zilla Panchayat Hall to accept the grievances of people on Kasturirangan report on the ecologically sensitive areas (ESAs) of Western Ghats. The people of 142 villages, …
People can approach village panchayat or block development office It has been targeted to construct two lakh individual household toilets in the district under the Total Sanitation Campaign shortly and the works on this project had already commenced. A subsidy of Rs. 12,000 is being provided under the rural sanitation …
The campaign by the Forest Department and conservationists to protect vultures in The Nilgiris got a boost on Sunday, with the gram sabhas in the district resolving to back the cause. Taking part at a meeting at Kookalthorai, Collector P. Sankar urged farmers not to administer diclofenac to the cattle, …
