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 …
This report by Mining Zone People’s Solidarity Group investigates actual impacts of the POSCO project on people of Jagatsinghpur, Keonjhar and Sundergerh in Orissa where the steel plant, the port, and the mines will be set up. This report presents a comprehensive analysis of the claims advanced by the State …
THE Posco review panel on Monday submitted a "split verdict" on the South Korean steel maker's Orissa project. Although the dominant view was for revoking of environmental and coastal regulation zone clearances, government sources said that a reworking of the proposal could clear the way for the project. The reworked …
THEY were once held up as the three core projects that would catapult Orissa into the big league and as one of the most favoured business destinations globally. But five years down the line, the dreams have turned sour for Arcelor-Mittal India, Posco and Vedanta Resources as long delays in …
This is the executive summary of report of the committee constituted to investigate into the proposal submitted by POSCO India Pvt. Limited for establishment of an Integrated Steel Plant and Captive Port in Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa.
Majority report of the committee constituted to investigate into the proposal submitted by POSCO India Pvt. Limited for establishment of an Integrated Steel Plant and Captive Port in Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa.
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday issued a high alert to six coastal districts over a depression in the Bay of Bengal which is likely to intensify further and make landfall tomorrow. The alert was issued in the districts of Ganjam, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Bhadrak and Balasore, while others were …
Prafulla Das BHUBANESWAR: The Meena Gupta Committee is to submit its report on Monday to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on the Posco steel project, according to the sources in the Ministry. While the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti activists are hopeful that the committee would give an adverse …
KENDRAPARA: Panic gripped seaside villages in Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur districts with tidal waves lashing the villages from Wednesday causing extensive damage to agricultural land in a couple of blocks. In Keruapala village under Rangani gram panchayat in Rajnagar block a sluice gate collapsed on Thursday, as a result about 4,000 …
Report of the Meena Gupta committee constituted to investigate into the proposal submitted by POSCO India Pvt. Limited for establishment of an Integrated Steel Plant and Captive Port in Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa.
Bhubaneswar: With the Odisha government mulling supply of water to Posco's proposed mega steel mill near Paradip from an alternative place, local people and some outfits demanded a fresh public hearing. Faced with stiff opposition from farmers and different political parties, the state government had asked Posco to consider a …
With the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) nixing the Vedanta project at Niyamgiri hills, the Orissa government is now keeping its fingers crossed on the Rs 54,000 crore Posco steel project as the Meena Gupta committee set up by the ministry on Tuesday visited the site of the proposed …
Slammed earlier by the N C Saxena Committee for its faulty implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) in districts like Kalahandi and Jagatsinghpur, the state of Orissa has reortedly fashioned a success story on that front. According to a report by the state government, it has now become a …
BHUBANESWAR: Former Congress MLA Umesh Swain on Monday said that the proposed Posco steel plant should be shifted from the present location to a place south of Jatadhari mouth as displacement will be minimum in this case. Addressing mediapersons here, Swain said that the BJD managers who are organising a …
Bhubaneswar: The Meena Gupta Committee, which is probing into the implementation of Forest Right Act and the Rehabilitation & Re-settlement Policy in the proposed site for Posco
Debabrata Mohanty A week after the Ministry of Environment and Forests threw the Vedanta Aluminium project in Orissa into doldrums by denying final stage forest clearance, the fate of the 12 million tonne per annum steel project by Korean steelmaker Posco appears to be bleak after the ministry widened the …
THE Union environment ministry has written to Orissa's principal secretary (forests) directing the state to stop work on the Korean steel giant POSCO's plant in Jagatsinghpur district. The August 5 letter comes after the joint committee of the Central environment and tribal affairs ministries submitted a report on Forest Rights …
THE Union environment ministry has written to Orissa's principal secretary (forests) directing the state to stop work on the Korean steel giant POSCO's plant in Jagatsinghpur district.
Prafulla Das BHUBANESWAR: The four-member Central team that came to assess the implementation of the Forest Rights Act in the area chosen for the proposed steel plant of Posco-India Private Limited in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district completed its three-day visit on Sunday. The committee, headed by the former Union Environment Secretary, …
