Order of the Bombay High Court in the matter of Adani Cementation Limited Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/03/2025. Adani Cementation Limited approached the Bombay High Court seeking issuance of an order directing the respondents/ authorities to permit the petitioner to carry out the work of construction of …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Geeta Bhadrasen Vadhai Vs Ministry of Environment and Forests & Others regarding regarding Dighi Port, Raigad, Maharashtra, 13/11/2014. The Applicant has stated before the Tribunal that EC conditions are still being violated by the Project Proponent …
The construction of the proposed toll plaza at Kamothe-Kharghar junction on the Sion-Panvel highway has hit yet another hurdle. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has recently ordered the appointment of a district judge to visit the area of proposed toll plaza and inspect the construction work and state whether the …
The Bombay high court on Thursday wondered if the state government has made any alternative arrangement to tackle natural disasters and questioned its preparedness while hearing a PIL on the destruction of wetlands and mangroves. On March 10, the HC had ordered a total ban on reclamation and construction on …
New Delhi : The Supreme Court has quashed the National Green Tribunal’s order asking ONGC and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) to deposit R30 crore towards proposed rehabilitation of fishermen, who allegedly lost their livelihood due to laying down of the Uran-Trombay Jawahar Creek oil pipeline and the Uran-Trombay Gas …
More than a year after the state’s decision to notify all mangroves on public land as ‘reserved forests’, around 5,482 hectares of mangroves on government land in Thane and Raigad districts will be notified as reserved forests. Around 4,478 hectares of mangroves in Thane (Dahanu division) will be declared reserved …
Farmers from 78 villages of Mangaon, Roha and Tala tehsil in Raigad district will be protesting on Wednesday against the alleged forceful land acquisition for Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project. The farmers, who are organized under the banner of Anti-Corridor Struggle Action Committee, will protest the acquisition of 67,500 …
The situation is quite alarming. In Raigad district, 9,000 children were found to be malnourished and of this 918 were reported to be severely affected. This shocking fact came to light in a joint survey conducted by the state's health department and the women and children welfare department. Taking serious …
The steel maker was also buying the balance lumpy ore from the stand alone miner to feed its three mtpa steel unitat Raigad (Chhatisgarh) The closure notice served on Sarada Mines is set to have a debilitating effect on the steel and pellet plant operations of Jindal Steel &Power; Ltd …
GAIL India, the nation's biggest gas marketing company, has received environmental clearance for setting up a 220 MW gas-based power plant at Raigad in Maharashtra at a cost of . 1,028 crore. The state-owned firm plans to use 1 million standard cubic meters per day of natural gas to generated …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nicholas H. Almeida Vs M/s Lenzing Modi Fibres India Pvt. ltd. Ors. dated 28/11/2013 regarding environment clearance and consent to establish granted to M/s. Lenzing Modi Fibre India Ltd. who has proposed a project for manufacturing of Viscose Fibers (80,000 …
KOLHAPUR: Of the 60,000 square km area of the Western Ghats that the Union environment ministry notified as ecologically sensitive on Wednesday, 17,000 sq km fall in Maharashtra covering 2,133 villages across 12 districts. Raigad and Pune have the highest number of villages that will get the fragile zone tag, …
The oil spill on the Uran coast close to Mumbai is larger than what was estimated, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has said. The admission came two days after the leak of crude oil from an ONGC pipeline. It took 12 hours to cap. Initially the MPCB estimated that …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nicholas H. Almeida Vs M/s Lenzing Modi Fibres India Pvt Ltd & Others dated 13/09/2013 regarding the setting up of a viscose staple fibre plant near the vicinity of Karnala Birds Sanctuary by Lenzing Modi Fibres India Private Ltd.
Sand mining in large parts of Maharashtra continues without mandatory environmental clearance, which is against the Supreme Court’s orders, activist Sumaira Abdulali has alleged. Abdulali, who had filed a PIL in the Bombay high court against illegal sand mining, said the illegal activity continued with support from local politicians. On …
Cost Temporarily Reduced To Get Faster Approvals New evidence on the irregularities in the controversial Kondhane dam in Raigad reveals that it was hurriedly commenced without a proper design. Instead of drawing up the general layout and design of the project based on the site’s needs, the Konkan Irrigation Development …
Mumbai: Forget skeletons, a criminal probe into the functioning of the Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation (KIDC) may reveal an entire graveyard. The Chenara minor dam project in state water resources minister Sunil Tatkare’s bastion, Roha in Raigad district, reveals shocking instances of how officials shifted the goal post several times …
The Tata Power’s proposed 1,600 MW project in Raigad, Maharashtra, hit a roadblock recently after the Supreme Court admitted a bunch of appeals by farmers against the proprietary of land acquisition and compliance with environmental norms. A Bench led by Justice R M Lodha issued notices to Tata Power and …
A faulty design was the ostensible reason for the cost of the Nerdhamana irrigation project in Akola district to skyrocket from an initial estimate of Rs 181 crore to Rs 638 crore. State governor K Sankaranarayanan visited the project site on the Purna river earlier this month to supervise work. …
In early 2010, two-and-a-half-year-old Mohammed Qasim Ahmed of Malegaon was detected with the P-1 strain of the polio virus. He was among the many Malegaon families who have consistently refused to get their children vaccinated against polio. The refusal stems from a number of myths, such as children being at …
The Maharashtra government on Monday cancelled four major Special Economic Zones (SEZs) proposed by large business houses — Mahindra, Videocon and India Bulls — after having failed to acquire land for the multi-purpose projects. Earlier, stiff opposition to land acquisition by locals in Raigad had forced the scrapping of SEZ …
