Affidavit filed by Chhattisgarh East West Railway Limited in the matter of Sudiep Shrivastava Vs Union of India & Others dated 15/04/2025. The appeal was disposed of by the NGT, April 29, 2019. However, the order was challenged before the Supreme Court (SC). The SC, November 26, 2024 disposed of …
The Chhattisgarh Government has plans of electrifying all rural branches of State Bank of India (SBI) in the State with solar power during the next two years, officials informed. The Government has also targetted to electrify all the 19,000 villages in the State with solar power during the next two …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the State Government has welcomed the Centre's proposal for a chief ministerial level talks to resolve the dispute over Mahanadi river water, Chhatisgarh's delay in providing information sought by the Odisha government on the construction activities undertaken by it has made mattersuncertain. The state government had requested …
Centre and states are running out of time to clear these projects which have been stuck since January 2015 due to various regulatory hurdles. With the January 11, 2017, deadline looming large, the Centre is burning midnight oil to clear 288-odd non-coal mining proposals that are stuck at various levels. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shantanu Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/08/2016 regarding the use of fly ash as land fill to reclaim low lying areas including backfilling in abandoned mines or pitheads.
NTPC Ltd's Korba Thermal Power Station would soon start working on implementing a ‘Waste Water Conservation Scheme’, official sources informed. Significant to mention here is that the NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance (NETRA) is committed to developing new technologies for better utilisation and management of waste materials like effluent from …
Civic bodies across Chhattisgarh would now have to acquire environmental clearance first for use of landfill sites for safe disposal of solid waste. The Directorate of Urban Administration and Development Department has issued necessary directives to this effect, officials informed. The directives are in compliance with Solid Waste Management Rule …
For developing a robust road network in Chhattisgarh, the State Government has sanctioned Rs2,800 crore for constructing 27 new roads. Chief Minster Raman Singh on Monday, while chairing a meeting of Chhattisgarh Road Development Corporation (CGRDC) held at the Mantralaya, here green signalled the proposals. Officials in the know of …
State-run BHEL has commissioned the second 500 MW thermal unit at Marwa Thermal Power Station in Chhattisgarh. "Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has successfully commissioned the second 500 MW (megawatt) thermal unit at Marwa Thermal Power Station in Chhattisgarh," the power equipment manufacturer said in a regulatory filing. Located in …
Oxfam India is part of a global movement working to fight poverty, injustice and inequality. In India, it works in six states. Oxfam India’s programme on Fair Sharing of Natural Resources is aimed at marginalised communities to realise their rights through rightful access, control and sustainable management of natural resources, …
Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday inaugurated Chhattisgarh’s first five-star rated green building ‘Paryavas Bhawan’ here. The integrated office building had been situated at North Block, Sector 19 and will house offices of Raipur Development Authority (RDA), Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA), Chhattisgarh Housing Board (CGHB) and Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation …
The Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) has decided to carry out third party ‘Environment Compliance Audit’ of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP). In this regard, a contract agreement was signed between SAIL/BSP and M/s Bhagvatihi Anna Lab private Limited(Hyderabad) on July 22, 2016 in the presence of R C Kulkarni, …
RAIPUR: As district administrations across Chhattisgarh are aiming to go Open Defecation Free by August 15 and January 26, nearly 90 tribal school girls residing at a residential school in Maoist-hotbed Bastar division, walk with a mug 200 metres away from the hostel to relieve themselves in forest. Besides danger …
BJP accuses Congress of denying benefits to tribals and others which it claimed would get from the passage of the Bill Tribal ministry relents over Forest Rights Act The Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill could not be taken up in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, with the Congress blocking proceedings …
Raipur: With ban on polybags proving to be ineffective, the revenue department and town and country planning department of Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) carried out a mega drive on Saturday to crack the whip on offenders. The team confiscated 30 kilogram of banned polythene bags from 50 shops located on …
At a time when the dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh is raging on over sharing of the Mahanadi water, it has come as a blessing in disguise for Odisha to further up its ante against the Centre's ambitious plan for Mahanadi-Godavari link. The state government is opposing the interlinking project …
Total installed solar power generation capacity in the country touched 7,805 MW mark by June-end this year with Rajasthan topping the charts with 1,294.60 MW, Parliament was informed today. Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh followed Rajasthan with grid connected solar power generation capacity of 1,267.41 MW and 1,123.36 MW respectively as …
RAIPUR: In a significant move, Chhattisgarh environment board has made it mandatory to use idols made of natural soil and paints during immersions in festivals of Navaratri and Ganesh Utsav. The move comes in wake of consistent increase in pollution of water bodies due to religious practices and immersion of …
The Indian arm of the Amnesty International, a global NGO on human rights, on Wednesday released a comprehensive report on flip side of coal mining operations in Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand, highlighting a pattern of human rights violations in open-cast mines run by different subsidiaries of the state-owned Coal India …
Raipur: Fondly called as 'cutest falcon' among the birdwatchers, Amur Falcon a small raptor that breeds in south-eastern Siberia and Northern China was spotted for the first time in Central India with photographic authentication, at Bastar region by a birder cum Head of Department, Zoology of Government PG College, Jagdalpur. …
Coal is an important part of India’s economic growth story. However coal mining in India also has a different cost, borne by the communities affected by these mines, who are rarely meaningfully informed or consulted when their land is acquired, their forests decimated, and their livelihoods jeopardised. This report examines …
