Govt.-controlled organisation will continue to accept kendu leaf The Odisha government has handed over trade rights of kendu (tendu) leaf, an important minor forest produce, to residents of six villages in Kalahandi district. “Residents of six villages in the Kegaon range of the Bhawanipatna kendu leaf division are free to …
The Orissa High Court on Tuesday rejected the plea of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) for a six-fold expansion of its one-million-tonne per annum alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi district. Vedanta had filed a petition in the HC on November 12, 2010, praying to quash the order of the …
Judgement passed on 19.07.2011 by the Hon'ble High Court of Orissa, Cuttack in case of W.P.(C) No.19605 of 2010 in the matter of Vedanta Aluminium Limited Vs Union of India, regarding expansion of Alumina plant and Captive Power Plant at Lanjigarh in Orissa.
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), a unit of Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources PLC, will invest about . 10,000 crore to complete its aluminium smelter and independent power plants at Jharsuguda. The company has so far invested around. 40,000-crore in its Lanjigarh and Jharsuguda projects in Orissa. It has set up a …
BHAWANIPATNA: The benefits under the Rashtriya Suraksha Bima Yojana (RSBY) have failed to trickle down to the beneficiaries the Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. Though launched as a pilot project in Kalahandi in November 2009, poor management and lack of awareness among the BPL beneficiaries have marred the cashless treatment …
Montek lauds government for achieving progress in several fields The Annual Plan for Orissa for 2011-12 was finalised at Rs. 15,200 crore at a meeting held here on Wednesday between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The Plan size marks a substantial increase …
Tucked away in the Barnawapara wildlife sanctuary of Chhattisgarh is a small village, Deba. The national power grid is yet to reach there. But there is no interruption in the scheduled power supply to its 75 households. While power cuts are frequent in grid-connected villages across the state, the only …
Solar electricity lights the maximum number of villages in Chhattisgarh—but barely so. Tucked away in the Barnawapara wildlife sanctuary of Chhattisgarh is a small village, Deba. The national power grid is yet to reach there. But there is no interruption in the scheduled power supply to its 75 households. While …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday said that it would study the notice served to it by the Supreme Court on the case relating to bauxite mining proposal at Niyamgiri in Kalahandi district. We have not seen the Supreme Court direction yet. We will study the order before replying to …
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on the plea of Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) challenging the cancellation of the environmental clearance to the Niyamgiri Bauxite Mining Project in the state. A bench comprising Justice RV Raveendran and Justice AK Patnaik also …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa's literacy rate might have grown exponentially in the last decade to touch 73.45 per cent, almost on par with the National average of 74.04, but the Naxal hotbeds of the State continue to wallow in illiteracy. Literacy rate in the Maoist-infested districts of Malkangiri, Koraput and Nabarangpur still …
Bhubaneswar: Despite a stay on the proposed expansion of Vedanta's alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, the Centre has now sought a fresh application for the purpose from the state. This was announced by revenue and disaster management minister Surya Narayan Patra in the State Assembly here on Monday …
Is the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) now seeking a rapprochement with the Vedanta group? Despite a stay on the proposed expansion of Vedanta
BHUBANESWAR: ALARMED by the high childhood mortality, the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) has proposed to its parent body, the Indian Council of Medical Research, to establish a surveillance centre in the State for screening of Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib), one of the biggest child killers in Orissa. With the …
