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 …
IN DHINKIA village in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district, residents gathered around fragile bamboo gates, armed with sticks, brooms and lathis. The gates and improvised weapons were meant to keep government officials out. The residents expected a visit from them any day after the Union environment ministry gave environmental clearance to South …
New Delhi: The Orissa government bats for it, the PMO is in favour and forests minister Jairam Ramesh has obliged, but the Rs 54,000-crore Posco project has found two difficult adversaries
DHINKIA: The agitation against land acquisition for the Posco steel plant intensified in this seaside gram panchayat in Jagatsinghpur district on Sunday, with the villagers damaging an approach road to the area earmarked for the project. Led by Abhay Sahu, chairman of the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti, which has been …
January 31, 2011, Dhinkia village, Jagatsinghpur district, Odisha: I am at the epicentre of a six-year long movement against a project claiming to bring the largest foreign investment to the country. But can see no visible signs of protest. I almost draw out my camera at the sight of red …
Troubles are far from over for global steel giant Posco to set up its Rs 54,000 crore steel plant in Jagatsinghpur in Orissa with tribals in the area divided over allowing the Korean company to enter. Although Orissa
PARADIP: The members of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), the organisation spearheading agitation against the 12- million tonne steel plant of Posco in Jagatsinghpur district, today re-erected barricades restricting the entry of government, company and police personnel to the project site. The outfit erected eight barricades at various places of …
On January 31, 2011, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) gave its final approval for the construction of a steel plant and captive port of the South Korean company, Posco. The company
BHUBANESWAR: Deulisahi, an impoverished village in Jagatsinghpur district, and Krushnanandapur, a nearby village brimming with affluence, may be pictures in contrast. But they have queerly presented similar features of alarmingly high incidence of diabetes, prompting health researchers to conduct a study to find out the causative factors for this phenomenon. …
Posco India may be celebrating conditional clearances to its steel plant and port projects, but its worries are far from over, with the issue of captive iron ore mines
MoEF has granted conditional environmental clearance to POSCO for its steel-cum-captive-power plant & a captive minor port at Orissa and has demanded an assurance from the state government that forest rights are not being violated. The Government of Orissa and Pohang Steel Company (POSCO) signed a MoU on June 22, …
As the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) gears itself to give a final verdict on the steel giant Posco next week, several financial consultants researching on this `51,000-crore mega project have questioned the MoU signed between India and South Korea. Sulakshan Fontana, who works closely with Navdanya, questions how …
Concerned over the huge delays in execution of core sector projects, an internal panel of the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) has called for better communication between the project authorities and the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). The ministry, which is the nodal agency for monitoring the …
Hundreds of acres of prawn gheries and river creeks were affected due to leakage of crude oil from the Halidia-Paradip pipeline of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) near Sandhkud under Kujanga tehsil in Jagatsinghpur district. According to sources, on Thursday night, the pipeline leaked with oil spreading into Kaudia river …
The Posco steel plant and port planned in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district have run into fresh trouble. An expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests deferred its decision on clearing the port project, saying the South Korean steel giant did not furnish sufficient details.
The POSCO steel plant and port planned in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district have run into fresh trouble. An expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests deferred its decision on clearing the port project, saying the South Korean steel giant did not furnish sufficient details. The company …
A Union environment ministry panel has recommended temporary withdrawal of the forest clearance given to South Korean giant POSCO's proposed US $12 billion integrated steel plant in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district. On November 18 the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) said the project violates the Forest Rights Act (FRA). FAC is an …
