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 …
Environmental clearance to the mining leases of 5 ha (major minerals and mining leases of minor mineral of 5 ha which have been operating before 14.09.2006) - applicability of EIA Notification, 2006, dated October 21st, 2010.
Direction under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 regarding 1 MPTA Alumina Refinery and 75 MW Captive Power Plant at Lanjigarh, Kalahandi in Orissa by M/s Vedanta Aluminium Limited, dated October 20th, 2010.
BHUBANESWAR: Despite the spectre of drought looming large over Orissa every two years, the Government till today has not recognised drought as a disaster in the State. Had it been so, Kalahandi and Balangir, infamous for perennial drought, could have been included in the current Disaster Risk Management Programme (DRMP) …
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has demanded approval of the eight-year perspective plan for the KBK (undivided Kalahandi, Balangir and Koraput districts) region, submitted to the Centre in January 2009. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Chief Minister said that the plan for 2009-17 was prepared by …
BHAWANIPATNA: The delay in the implementation of Sakhar Bharat Adult Literacy Programme in Kalahandi has raised a question mark on the success of the programme in the given time frame. It replaced the Continuing Education Programme of National Literacy Mission. The recently held district-level executive committee meeting of the Zilla …
Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera. COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 …
Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera. COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 …
In a reiteration of its earlier stand, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) told the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) that it had not breached any regulatory norms at the site of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi district. The company was today called for a personal hearing …
ON August 24, Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, uploaded on the Ministry's website the text of his detailed decision rejecting the application from Vedanta Resources for forest clearance to start bauxite mining in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills. The decision is a rare instance of how the …
THE August 24 decision of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) refusing to allow mining in the Niyamgiri hills jointly by the Orissa Mining Corporation and Sterlite Industries (India) Limited, a Vedanta Group company, has given a boost to the movements against displacement of people and illegal mining …
Cuttack: The Odisha High Court on Tuesday asked the state government to file a status report on the outbreak of cholera and diarrhoea diseases in each affected district. A division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice V Gopalgowda and Justice Indrajit Mahanty, while adjudicating over a PIL filed by …
THE National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) has faulted the environment ministry for the manner in which environmental clearance was granted to Vedanta
Even though Vedanta Resources has initiated the process of saving its plant from closure, the Orissa government is yet to take a decision on the revival of the Niyamgiri bauxite mines in Kalahandi district. Acting on the report of the Saxena Committee and the recommendation of the Forest Advisory Committee, …
Vedanta Resources received another jolt today, with the National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) suspending the green approval to its $1.7-billion bauxite mining project in Orissa and asking the environment ministry to
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 …
Rejection Not Part Of Corporates Vs Tribals Issue IN A development that could soothe the frayed nerves of investors, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday decoupled the environment ministry
A fortnight after the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) served a show-cause notice on Vedanta Aluminium, asking why its existing one million tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district in Orissa should not be closed down, the embattled company today replied back that the ministry was contradicting its …
Bhubaneswar: The Centre on Wednesday made it clear that it would not tolerate any back door entries by industry for seeking mines, a move that could dampen corporate efforts of forging alliances with PSUs for their mining projects. Asked about the industrial controversies relating to mining activities like that in …
Standards not consistent, rules changed midway, it contends. You are not going by your own rules, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) intends to tell the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) tomorrow. Also, it plans to say MoEF is applying to VAL a different standard than the one being held …