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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Tarun Rathore Vs MoEF&CC & Others dated 14/11/2022. The appeal has been filed against Environmental Clearance dated 22.04.2022 granted by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change to M/S Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO) for …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Ram Awtar Agrawal Vs State of Chhattisgarh & Others dated 19/09/2022. The National Green Tribunal (NGT), September 19, 2022 directed that awareness programmes need to be organized for common people in Chhattisgarh regarding utilization of fly …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of R.K. Seth Vs State of Chhatisgarh dated 25/03/2019 regarding dangerous and unsafe mining activity generating dust by GTP, a coal transport company in Gevra Kurmunts & Deepika Project of SECL at District Korba, Chhattisgarh. The NGT directs the Chhattisgarh State …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Dheeru Powergen Ltd. Vs Jeet Singh Kanwar & Others dated 03/01/2019 regarding Environment Clearance for setting up a 1050 MW super thermal power project at Korba in Chhatisgarh. National Green Tribunal in its order passed on 16 April 2013 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sudiep Shrivastava Vs. Union of India & Others dated 20/09/2018. This appeal is against the order passed by the State Government allowing diversion of forest land in favour of Chhattisgarh East West Rail Corridor Ltd., for construction of East West …
BILASPUR: Surguja, Korba and Raigarh districts of Chhattisgarh are facing wild elephant menace these days. While a farmer was seriously injured in an attack by a wild elephant during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, two large rampaging herds of wild elephants have destroyed a house and paddy crop …
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 …
On the occasion of World Environment Day today, over 1,000 residents of Hasdeo-Arand region, a rich coal reserve area, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to restrict coal mining in the eco-sensitive forests. The residents of around 35-40 villages of the region held a conference at Madanpur village …
The South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL) will be putting up safety messages on 'Retro Reflective Sign Boards' at different locations of its Gevra mining project in Korba district of Chhattisgarh, officials informed. Notably, SECL crossed 100 million tonnes of coal production as on January 12, 2016. To enhance and maintain …
Raipur: As many as 310 farmers committed suicide in Chhattisgarh in the last three years, Revenue Minister Premprakash Pandey informed the state Assembly on Wednesday. In a written reply to a question by Congress's Amarjeet Bhagat, he gave district-wise break-up of farmers' suicides between January 1, 2013 and January 31, …
BILASPUR: A joint inspection of pollution from the Korba East power plant of the Chhattisgarh state power generation company began on Monday. The joint inspectioon is being varrried out following orders by NGT (National Green Tribunal) in this regard. Pollutioon from the plant will be monitored for two months, following …
Report facilitate permission for more plants in state's power hub The prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur report for the Chhattisgarh government on pollution in Korba had come under the scanner with environment activists pointing several flaws in the research. The report had facilitated the ministry of environment, forest …
Korba in Chhattisgarh is among three newly identified critically polluted areas (CPAs) in the country with the collected sampling of ‘Volatile Organic Compounds” (VOCs), according to the 2014-15 annual report of the Union Ministry of Environment & Forests. The other two locations in the country are Bhiwadi ( Rajasthan) and …
The study of heavy metal (HMs) contamination of environment is of great interest due to their serious health hazard. In this work, the contamination of tree leaves with the HMs in the most polluted industrial city, Korba, India is described. The leaves of common trees i.e. Azadirachta indica, Butea monosperma, …
Three women were trampled to death by a herd of wild elephants in Kartala forests range of Korba district, officials informed here on Sunday. The victims had gone to a village for gathering ‘Mahua’ from the forest where they confronted a herd of wild elephants where the incident took place, …
The Chhattisgarh Government is trying to bring about a sort of mini green revolution around State’s industrial hub Korba by focussing on micro irrigation projects. The Government has approved construction of three irrigation anicuts at a cost of Rs10.48 crore for irrigating 565 hectares of land. The anicuts would be …
With the summer season just two months ahead, the State Government has already started reviewing all ongoing water supply projects in the State. Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand reviewed the status of different water supply projects and issued directives accordingly in a meeting of Water Resources Utilisation Committee held here at …
The administration has set up 73 relief camps where affected people has been given shelter following flooding of their houses and villages Heavy rains that lashed Chhattisgarh last week had flooded 73 villages across the state pushing the government machineries to take up relief work on a war-foot in the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Vinod Kumar Pandey & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors.dated 22/07/2014 regarding environmental clearance granted to M/s Dheeru Powergen Pvt. Ltd. by the MoEF to establish 3 x 350 MW coal based Thermal Power Plant …
Eighteen hospitals in Chhattisgarh, including AIIMS, have been issued show cause notice for non-compliance of rules of bio medical waste and thus causing health and environmental hazards. The notices, by the Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board, were issued after the hospitals were found violating the prescribed rules for disposal of bio-medical …
