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 …
More than four months after the National Green Tribunal suspended the environmental clearance granted to Korean steelmaker Posco for its 12 million tonne per annum integrated steel complex in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district, an expert team appointed by the environment ministry today visited the proposed site for a fresh review of …
The expert committee’s visit to Odisha on Tuesday to reassess the ecological impact of the Posco steel project lasted only for one hour and covered only selective sites, green activists have alleged. The review team, set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), did not visit the key …
A four-member expert team constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) is scheduled to visit the proposed Posco steel plant site near Paradip on Tuesday. The team was formed by MoEF in line with the order of the National Green Tribunal which had suspended the environmental clearance of …
A panel of the Union environment ministry has recommended re-validation of the green clearance accorded to South Korean steel giant Posco by five more years till 2017. In its meeting on June 14, the expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the Union ministry of environment and forests discussed at length Posco’s …
The Odisha government has decided to resume the land acquisition process for South African steelmaker Posco’s project, which was stalled indefinitely in June last year following protests by villagers and Left leaders. The decision was taken in a meeting convened by Chief Secretary B K Patnaik on 16 August, where …
The Centre has approved a Rs 240-crore action plan of the State Government under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM). Official sources said the district administrations have been asked to submit their action plans under the NRLM to the State Government. Guidelines for preparation of action plan have already been …
Stung by criticism that tribals and farmers are being uprooted to make way for industrial projects, the Orissa government has scaled down its land acquisition drive. Companies too have begun cutting down their project size to make it easier to go on stream. Take, for instance, Posco. The Korean steel …
Agitators ask Patnaik government to withdraw project from locality Hundreds of villagers staged a rally at Gobindpur village of Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district on Monday to reiterate their strong opposition to a fresh move by the Naveen Patnaik government to acquire land for the proposed Posco mega steel plant project. The …
The state government has decided that Posco India will have to pay the same price for rehabilitation colony land as it has paid for the project area, following a complaint raised by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). “Steps will be taken to request Posco India to pay equivalent compensation …
The Odisha Government will soon transfer about 2,000 acres of land to South Korean steel major POSCO to begin work on its USD 12-billion project near Paradip in Orissa, stuck for seven years now. “We have acquired 2,000 acres of land for POSCO. We have begun the process of land …
Bhubaneswar: After seven years of delay, the Posco steel project will start rolling soon as the Odisha government has started transferring around 1,500 acres to the Korean steel major to set up an 8-million tonne plant in the first phase, steel and mines minister Raghunath Mohanty said today. However, the …
The seven-year wait to set up the greenfield steel project in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district may be over for Posco, the fourth-largest steelmaker in the world. The Odisha state government is all set to approve the much-awaited tripartite agreement with South Korean steelmaker and its subsidiary Posco India. The Memorandum of …
After a wait of seven long years, the greenfield steel project of Posco in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district may be a reality with the state government readying an instrument of renewal for the project. State Steel and Mines Minister Raghunath Mohanty said that an ‘instrument of renewal’ is being processed by …
With the Rs 28,000-crore refinery project of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) at Paradip under a cloud of delay, the Odisha government has decided to ink an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the oil marketing firm to stipulate timeline and milestones for commissioning of the project. IOCL being the anchor …
Bhubaneswar: Even as Posco India is prepared to go for construction at proposed plant site near Paradip in October, no fresh agreement has so far been signed between the Odisha government and the South Korean steel major. As the MoU for setting up the proposed 12 mtpa steel plant had …
The showpiece POSCO iron and steel project in Orissa is set to take off by October this year with the state government and the South Korean company moving ahead to remove two major irritants that have been at the centre of the opposition to the project. While re-negotiating their 2005 …
BHUBANESWAR: The gruelling heatwave claimed nine more lives in Odisha on Saturday as day temperature soared across the State. The official death toll jumped from 10 to 19 on a single day. Such has been the impact of the scorching conditions that even Malkangiri, Odisha’s southernmost district, faced the heat. …
PARADIP: Jagatsinghpur district has been witnessing a steep decline in groundwater level. The quality of water also deteriorated. Sources said groundwater level in the district has gone down to a great extent following unrestricted drawing of water by industries in the area. In the last few years hundreds of industries …
The company has so far got 500 acres while the govt claims to have acquired 2,000 acres South Korean steel major Posco and Odisha government have agreed to set up an 8 million tonne per annum (mtpa) steel plant near Paradeep in Odisha in two phases, downsizing it from the …
BHUBANESWAR: Posco India CMD Yong-Won Yoon on Wednesday said that the company will set up 8 million tonne capacity steel plant near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district with the available land and expand whenever the total requirement of 4004 acres are transferred to it. The original plan of 12 mt capacity …
