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 …
Posco India Chairman-cum-Managing Director YW Yoon on Wednesday asserted that despite delay in the transfer of required land, there was no question of downsising or reducing the project cost of the proposed 12 mtpa mega steel mill to be set up near Paradip. After an hour-long discussion with Chief Minister …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has sought a fresh detailed project report from Posco India concerning its proposal to downsize the proposed 12-MTPA steel project near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district as the chairman and managing director of the company is scheduled to meet chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday. Briefing newsmen …
South Korean ambassador to India Kim Joong-Keun today said that steelmaker Posco can scale down its proposed 12 million tonne steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district if it gets less amount of land than it required. Keun who met chief minister Naveen Patnaik, said Posco was eager to start work on …
Bhubaneswar: Optimistic of establishing Posco’s proposed mega steel project near Paradip in Odisha, South Korea on Wednesday said the company could revise its plan and go for a smaller capacity plant instead of its original design of setting up a 12mtpa steel mill. “We are eager to complete whole size …
Bhubaneswar: Optimistic of establishing Posco's proposed mega steel project near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district, South Korea on Wednesday said that the company could revise its plan and go for a small capacity plant instead of its original design of setting up a 12mtpa steel mill. We are eager to complete …
Chief Minister meets Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in New Delhi The Odisha government on Wednesday urged the Centre to take effective measures to realise the unsaturated agricultural potential of the State and to make the second green revolution a success in the eastern region of the country. The demands …
On 30 March 2012, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) delivered a judgment that has sent India’s largest FDI back to the drawing table. In the landmark order, the NGT suspended the conditional environment clearance granted last year, and directed the environment ministry to carry out a ‘fresh review’ of the …
Bhubaneswar: An alert was sounded along the Odisha coast on Wednesday with warnings issued to fishermen and people following the massive earthquake off Sumatra coast. The alert was issued to the administration in six districts - Balasore, Bhadrak, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Ganjam and Puri, Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) P K Mohapatra …
Jagatsinghpur: A team of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), led by its member Satyabrata Pal visited Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Gadakujanga panchayats in Jagatsinghpur district today to investigate into the incidences of human rights violation in the proposed Posco site area. The team visited Polang and Noliasahi villages of Gadkujang panchayats. …
PARADIP: With wells running dry and water tables depleting throughout the State, this is feared to be a dry summer. The impact is already being felt in Jagatsinghpur district. Many villages here are facing acute water shortage. To address the issue, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had laid foundation stone for …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has shown undue favour to promoters of industries to the tune of Rs 224 crore by under-assessing the value of private land resulting in low compensation to the land losers. Pointing out the erroneous fixation of land price, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said over …
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has unearthed a land scam in Orissa where the state government acquired land for industrial houses like Vedanta and Posco by reportedly misusing existing provisions of the Land Acquisition Act. The CAG also found that the companies were not using the land for which …
The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India has found that the Naveen Patnaik government has ‘misused' the Land Acquisition Act for acquiring land for several big industrial projects, including the proposed mega steel plant by South Korean steel major Posco. “Emergency Provisions of Section 17 (4) were misused and applied arbitrarily …
On March 30, 2012, the National Green Tribunal held in Prafulla Samantra and Anr. vs Union of India and Ors. that the 31.1.2011 final order of the Environment Ministry – permitting the POSCO project to go ahead with certain conditions – should be suspended until a full review of the …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Praffula Samantra Vs Union of India and Others dated 30/03/2012. This appeal is filed against the final order dated 31.1.2011 of the Ministry of Environment & Forests, imposing additional conditions to the Environmental Clearances in respect of (i) steel cum …
The Odisha government is gradually acquiring land for Pohang Steel Company (Posco) and now wants the company to begin its work on the already acquired land said Sunil Bhargav, Principal Resident Commissioner, Odisha while updating Pulok Chatterji, Principal Secretary in the PM’s office. Chatterji had called Odisha chief secretary Bijay …
With barely a fortnight to go for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to South Korea, his office has convened a high-level meeting on Monday to take stock of the hurdles faced by Pohang Steel Company (Posco) in setting up a Rs 54,000 crore, 10 million tonne steel project in Odisha. …
Bhubaneswar: Chief Secretary Bijay Patnaik has been requested by the Principal secretary to the prime minister has requested the chief secretary of Odisha to personally attend the preparatory meeting on India-South Korea Economic Cooperation in New Delhi on March 19 to present facts about the progress in the implementation the …
Bhubaneswar: Unable to proceed with their projects due to different reasons, Vedanta Aluminium and Posco have sought more time from the Centre to implement their respective special economic zones (SEZs). An inter-ministerial Board of Approval (BoA), presided over by Union commerce secretary Rahul Khullar, will consider both the requests on …
Bhubaneswar: Delay in land acquisition and ancillary work has led to considerable cost escalation of Posco's 12 million tonne per annum mega steel plant near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district, the South Korean steel major claimed on Thursday. Delay would lead to about 20 percet cost escalation of the project, which …
