Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Tribunal on its own motion Vs State of Jharkhand dated 20/09/2023. The Original Application has been registered in exercise of suo motu power on the basis of the communication dated August 30, 2023 received by the tribunal. Allegation is that …
Armed villagers prevented government officials from entering the site of a proposed solid waste treatment plant in Khairbani on the outskirts of Jamshedpur on Friday, their resistance inspired by fears of the project leading to a polluted atmosphere. A month earlier, local residents had also pulled down a boundary wall …
Tata Steel fears that it may have to start its 3-million-tonne Kalinganagar steel plant without a captive iron ore mine, since the state has not taken any initiative as yet to allot it a mine. Anand Sen Tata Steel’s vice-president for quality management and in-charge of Kalinga Nagar project told …
New Delhi The Odisha government is believed to have slapped a fine of about Rs 6,000 crore on Tata Steel for its alleged involvement in "illegal and excess mining" at its captive mines. Deputy Director of Mines (DDM) of Joda mining circle has slapped the fine on the steelmaker and …
Jamshedpur, Oct. 20: A team of senior district officials today inspected eight ghats, starting a special drive to spruce up over 12 major sites for immersion on Vijaya Dashami on October 24. The officials visited Subernarekha Ghat in Sakchi, Kapali Ghat and Domuhani (Sonari), Bodhanwala Ghat (Bistupur), Pandey Ghat (Bhuiyandih), …
This Durga Puja, Rotary Club of Jamshedpur will help the steel city think Green, by replacing polythene bags with jute and cloth ones at pandals from where bhog is distributed to hundreds of devotees on the four main days. In a bid to eliminate the use of plastic, Rotary Club …
Two Sudha Dairy attendants were caught red-handed while mixing water to milk in the wee hours of Sunday, confirming fears of unsafe milk being sold in Jharkhand even as the state gears up to launch the twin food and drug safety laboratory to test the authenticity of edibles. Ormanjhi police …
The recent furore in Rajasthan over mobile towers installed near schools and hospitals triggered a similar protest in Jamshedpur, though on a smaller scale, but the district administration remained clueless on what to do, citing lack of clear-cut directions from the state government. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court came …
Dilly, dally, jumpstart. Jharkhand High Court’s most recent prod in June 2011 should see the much-delayed Mango drinking water project worth Rs 64.15 crore take off in January 2013. The high court, which has been hearing a PIL since August 2012 on the delayed Mango project filed by Jamshedpur-based NGO …
Mumbai In what will be the largest fund-raising exercise by an Indian corporate in a long time, Tata Steel plans to hit the loan market for close to R18,000 crore. The steel maker will mop up money, via the project finance route, to fund its 6-million-tonne (mt) greenfield steel plant …
In what will be the largest fund-raising exercise by an Indian corporate in a long time, Tata Steel plans to hit the loan market for close to Rs 18,000 crore. The steel maker will mop up money, via the project finance route, to fund its six million tonne greenfield steel …
The much-awaited solid waste management project in Jamshedpur was set rolling on Wednesday with the signing of a concession agreement between Jamshedpur Urban Agglomeration (JUA) and Gurgaon-based SPML (formerly Subhash Projects and Marketing Limited). The agreement was signed by JUA nodal officer R.N. Dwivedi and SPML director Deepak Shetty in …
From a steel city to a vegetable bowl, Jamshedpur is ready for a paradigm shift in its identity with ponds, check dams and groundwater recharge models in the pipeline to end irrigation woes. A brainchild of local MP Ajoy Kumar, the project details for the city and its adjoining areas …
Ranchi, July 10: In a fillip to national highways in Jharkhand, the Union ministry of environment and forests today gave its final environmental clearance for widening an 80km stretch of NH-33 between Ranchi and Jamshedpur, delay over which has held up the Rs 1,500 crore-plus project since April 2011. A …
Ranchi, July 9: A crucial meeting scheduled at the Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF), New Delhi, tomorrow will decide the fate of the ambitious over Rs 1,500-crore NH-33 four-laning project between Ranchi and Jamshedpur, which is stuck in the absence of a green nod. National Highways Authority of …
Rapid urbanisation may lead to 605 million people in Asia going without improved drinking water sources by 2015, says a new report by Asian Development Bank and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore. The report, which cites best practices in eight Asian cities, including Jamshedpur in India, advocates …
Tata Power’s Jojobera thermal power station at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand has bagged the Golden Peacock Environment Management Award for 2012. According to a company release, the award will be presented at a function in New Delhi during the 14th World Congress on Environment Management, scheduled to be held from July …
The iron and steel sector is non-transparent, non-compliant with weak environmental norms and is getting away with it because of an even weaker regulatory framework When the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) started its Green Rating Project in the mid-1990s, India had just liberalised its economy. There were fears …
State govt mulls cancelling contracts with JSW Ispat and Bhushan Steel Worried over the tardy progress made by the steel makers, the Jharkhand government is considering to cancel the MoUs it entered with Ispat (now JSW Ispat) and Bhushan Steel for setting up steel projects in the state. In the …
- Tata township scores on water & power; lags behind in healthcare, roads. Jamshedpur, take a bow. You stand second to Chandigarh among five tier-II cities in the Quality of Life 2012 survey, surging ahead of Bhubaneswar, Pune and Vizag. But the applause will have to be muted, because the …
The four-lane work of a crucial National Highway stretch is waiting for a nod from the high-level National Board for Wildlife as it passes through the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary. Otherwise, the project on the 163.5km highway stretch between Ranchi-Rargaon-Jamshedpur (till Ghatshila) has received clearances from all state departments concerned, including …
