Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Bangalore: A day after the Andhra Pradesh Government sought an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into allegations of irregularities in iron ore mining in Anantapur district, the Opposition Congress in the State demanded that Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa immediately drop the three Ministers from Bellary
Anantapur, Nov. 18: Iron ore mining activity in Obulapuram and H Siddapuram villages in D Hirehal mandal is mired in controversy for illegal mining and exports. Recently, the divisional forest officer, Mr Kallol Biswas, slapped show cause notices on the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), pointing to encroachment and illegal exports; …
M. Malleswara Rao HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to institute an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation into allegations of irregularities in iron ore mining in Anantapur district. This follows a raging controversy over the mining leases given to the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) owned by Karnataka …
HYDERABAD: Chief Minister K. Rosaiah on Sunday asserted that his government would not succumb to any kind of pressure in protecting the interests of the State in resolving the raging controversy over iron ore mining in the Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC) in Anantapur district. In a statement issued after a …
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh government is actively contemplating deputing a team of senior officials of the Mines and Geology Department to probe allegations of mining lease violations against the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) owned by Karnataka Tourism Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. Mines and Geology Minister Balineni Srinivas Reddy hinted at …
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh government has directed the Forest department to depute senior officials to visit the areas leased out for mining iron ore to Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) and other companies in the Bellary reserve forest of Anantapur district. In the face of a spate of allegations from the …
M. Somasekhar Hyderabad, Nov. 10 Titan Energy Systems and Enfinity, based in Waregem Belgium, have joined hands to establish a 1 Giga Watt Power (GWp) or 1000 MW of solar Photovoltaic (PV) installations in Andhra Pradesh. Enfinity will develop and finance this project while the Hyderabad-based Titan Energy Systems will …
Hyderabad, Nov. 9: The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Monday said the government will set up Solar City, a cluster of farms to harvest solar power, at Kadiri in Anantapur district. The CM said the facility, to come up on 10,000 acres, would have locational advantage as it has …
Designing Rural Technology Delivery Systems for Mitigating Agricultural Distress: A Study of Anantapur District focuses on the technological dimension of the agricultural crisis that is currently gripping the Indian economy. A perusal of this study will show that it will be possible to bridge the prevailing yield gap in the …
ANANTAPUR, Oct. 30: The Anantapur division forest officer, Mr Kallol Biswas, on Friday cancelled the mining lease for Anantapur Mining Company (AMC), owned by Mr Gali Janardhan Reddy, even as he alleged that personnel from Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), an AMC associate, had tried to attack him. AMC and Obulapuram …
ANANTAPUR, Sept. 22: Industrial pollutants are contaminating the Penna river in Anantapur district. Many industries located along the banks are indiscriminately releasing effluents into the river at Tadipatri which has constant groundwater levels in the district. There are 200 granite and 1,000 blackstone industries concentrated in and around Tadipatri. Major …
Sept. 1: Large-scale corruption has plagued the much-touted National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme as even employed persons apart apart from the dead are shown to be working and drawing money as per its records. Village resource persons show the name of Boni Suryanarayana who is working in the mandal office …
P. Sainath All but half a dozen of the 175 families in Palavai village, Anantapur, are sending members to work in the NREGS sites. The number of women going for that work keeps increasing.
Aug. 25: Illegal sand transporters have focused their attention on the sand dunes along the banks of river Penna in the Anantapur district. The Penna river passes through Peddapappur, Yellanur, Putlur and Roddam mandals and is the main source of drinking and irrigation water in these mandals. But illegal sand …
Aug. 6: The lack of rainfall during monsoon has severely affected drinking water supply in several parts of the state. In Anantapur, an acute drinking water crisis has hit the district after 20 years. Some colonies have not got water for a month. Some areas are getting water through tankers …
Aug. 2: The collective effort of the residents of Nakkaladoddi Narsapuram has made the village free from fluoride contamination. The village is five km from the Guntakal mandal headquarters and has 300 habitations. In the past, hundreds of people were crippled in the village because of fluoride contamination in water. …
Aug. 1: Political leaders are creating fear among their faction rivals in Anantapur district by hacking trees and blocking borewells. This method of threatening rivals started three decades ago in Putlur and Yellanur mandals of Dharmavaram constituency and subsequently spread to other mandals. Henchmen of Congress and TD leaders used …
July 13: The Centre will take up a survey to demarcate the boundaries of five iron ore mines in Anantapur forests to resolve the dispute on alleged illegal mining by Obulapuram Mining Company, owned by the Karnataka tourism minister, Mr Gali Janardhan Reddy. A 10-hectare non-mining zone around a temple, …
