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 …
Aluminium major's initiative helps farmers to take second crop Premsai Kanwar, a small farmer in Dondro village of Korba district, had never dreamt of taking a second crop in his field. Lack of irrigation facility literally made his land barren after taking the kharif paddy crop. Kanwar was not the …
Commercial production in the plant started in 1983 and achieving above 90% PLF at an age of 30 years was outstanding performance The Korba station of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is on a move---this time to perform outstanding in the field of environment protection. The vintage plant of …
Days After Govt’s Nod To Project, National Tribunal Quashes Clearance, Calls It Illegal New Delhi: Within five days of imposing a moratorium on new industries in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district for being the fifth polluted industrial zone in the country, the environment ministry did a U-turn, having cleared a private 3x350 …
Within five days of imposing a moratorium on new industries in Chhattisgarh's Korba district for being the fifth polluted industrial zone in the country, the environment ministry did a U-turn, having cleared a private 3x350 MW thermal power plant. The move overlooks not only the freeze the ministry had imposed, …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal on environmental clearance dated 18-01-2010 granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to M/s Dheeru Powergen Pvt. Ltd for the setting up of a 3 x 350 MW coal-fired thermal power plant in Korba, Chhattisgarh
Which government department addresses injustice done to tribals in the country? Tribal rights activists from Chhattisgarh have been trying to solve this conundrum for a year now. Their efforts have resulted in a huge pile of official communication explaining one thing: no department wants to take responsibility. Lakshmi Chauhan, who …
Expansion of existing blocks was held up for environmental clearance, new blocks were either unexplored or partially explored For all the problems that plague thermal power plants across India -- coal stocks of just one week or projects struggling to come up for want of assured coal -- Coal India …
On June 4, 2008, Arvind Jain, chairman of CII Chhattisgarh, wrote a letter to the divisional forest officer, Korba, saying that since coal blocks of a few companies fell in the area of a proposed elephant reserve in the district, “the reserve should be shifted to some other location”. The …
Facing non-supply of bauxite, Vedanta Aluminium has announced closure of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha from December 5. The company has served a formal notice to the Odisha Government. In a notice to the Labour Commissioner of the State Government, the company said, “The unit has already incurred …
Korba: While Parliament remains stalled over the CAG report on coal block allocations, a land acquisition row threatens to disrupt production at India’s largest open cast coal mine. In fact, it exposes a deeper malaise that afflicts India’s coal sector, where private companies, according to the CAG, were given coal …
7 Allocations During NDA Tenure In List. New Delhi: The government may be standing firm against scrapping coal block allotments to private companies but a high-level official panel for monitoring progress in these mines is pitching for largescale de-allocation to “defuse the current crisis” over Coalgate. “Out of the 90 …
On April 26, 2010, Chhattisgarh additional secretary (law) Ravishankar Sharma wrote to the government’s additional standing counsel in Delhi, Aniruddh P Mai: “The state government has decided to file an SLP [special leave petition] in the Supreme Court against the Bilaspur High Court’s February order [in favour of Balco in …
A Raipur court on Wednesday admitted a petition filed by Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel against Chief Minister Raman Singh for allegedly entering into a criminal conspiracy and regularising 2,780 acres of land to Balco in Korba district, most of which the company had illegally occupied over the years. Significantly, the …
Five labourers died in an accident at an under-construction power plant of Korba West Power Co Limited in Raigrah district of Chhattisgarh Saturday morning. The labourers were on a 170-foot high scaffolding built around a cooling tower of the power plant when the scaffolding came crashing down. The victims were …
Industry Power sector: Chhattisgarh is one of the few States of India where Power sector is effectively developed. Based on the current production of surplus electric power, position of the State is comfortable and profitable. The Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board (CSEB) is in a strong position to meet the electricity …
NTPC will not sign separate fuel supply agreements (FSAs) for new units and old units at the same power station as is now required by Coal India. It intends to sign the same set of contracts – the one it has already signed for some of its units. The company …
Raman Singh-led Chhattisgarh Government and the Indian Railways on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop three rail corridors in the coal rich Northern region of the tribal State. The three corridors totaling 452 km will be built at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore. The three corridors would …
The Railways is likely to announce plans to develop three industrial freight corridors in Chhattisgarh in the coming Budget. The projects, taken up on the initiative of the Chhattisgarh government, are to be rolled out in the form of special purpose vehicles where the Railways would be a stakeholder, along …
Secy to seek funds in addition to . 67700cr already received this fiscal year. The fertiliser ministry may seek more funds from the finance ministry to meet its subsidy obligations as it needs more than the allocated amount to take care of the rising subsidy bill, a top official said. …
Not only are the Forest Rights Act and the Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas Act routinely violated in Chhattisgarh, the adivasis are also short-changed on legislative representation and reservations in government jobs. As the state cedes land to capital while reducing the adivasis to an ornamental presence, there is increasing …
