Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ranu Bala Vs MoEF&CC & Others dated 05/05/2025. The applicant has alleged illegal felling of trees by the project proponent, a real estate developer company. The allegation of the applicant was that the project proponent has violated the norms by …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Tarun Rathore Vs MoEF&CC & Others dated 14/11/2022. The appeal has been filed against Environmental Clearance dated 22.04.2022 granted by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change to M/S Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO) for …
Janabhivyakti, the Centre for Policy Research-Namati Environmental Justice Program and Oxfam India have jointly conducted a groundtruthing study of environmental violations in the Bodai-Daldali bauxite mine located in the Kabirdham district of Chhattisgarh. A groundtruthing study is the process of comparing the facts as mentioned in official documents with the …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Bhupesh Baghel Vs Anil Agarwal dated 17/07/2018 regarding non-forestry activities and enroachment by Balco in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. The allegation in this contempt petition is that large areas have been used for non-forest purposes by M/s. Balco in spite of …
The Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (BALCO) has received the ‘Best India CSR Project Award’. This has been awarded for its Project Jalgram-‘Towards Sustainable Livelihood’ in the category-‘Agriculture Development’, a company press release informed. The award was presented in a glittering award ceremony held in Bangalore and was received on behalf …
The Centre has so far transferred the environment clearance (EC) of 19 coal blocks out of approved 29 mines from the earlier allottees to the new successful bidders including JSW Steel, GMR Chhattisgarh Energy, Jaypee Cement and Ambuja Cements among others.In a bid to expedite operations from the recently allocated …
Under current laws, a company cannot sell mines but only transfer leases when it is acquired by another firm The central government, after allowing commercial mining in the coal sector, is now planning to permit companies to sell mines of all minerals, except atomic ones, by providing transferability under the …
Aluminium major's initiative helps farmers to take second crop Premsai Kanwar, a small farmer in Dondro village of Korba district, had never dreamt of taking a second crop in his field. Lack of irrigation facility literally made his land barren after taking the kharif paddy crop. Kanwar was not the …
Statement of the Minister of Mines in response to Rajya Sabha Starred Question No. 276 for 10th February, 2014, asked by Shri Ram Kripal Yadav regarding allocation of bauxite mines to private companies. Minister of Mines has stated that the "the information regarding revenue generated from mines is not centrally …
SC judges suspected a lack of objective criteria in the selection In the ongoing hearing on Thursday before the Supreme Court in the coal block allocation controversy, the government presented information sought by the judges on Wednesday about companies selected and rejected by the screening committee. The judges wanted the …
“We don’t know how the villagers can consent to diversion of forest land five days after denouncing it” It all started with great excitement — organising groups, motivating young women to lead from the front, guarding the village borders to prevent vote buying through gifts — for it seemed important …
Company hopeful of bringing 3 operation ready projects on stream shortly, completing its Rs 50,000 cr power investment cycle set in motion 5 yrs back Vedanta London-listed metals and mining conglomerate Vedanta Resources Plc expects its operational power generation capacity in India to jump by half to 10,000 Mw within …
Gram sabha at Taraimarh adjourned due to lack of quorum as villagers stay away On a wet and windy Saturday evening nearly 350 km north of the State capital, Raipur, a non-descript village registered a historic victory against Bharat Alumunium Company Ltd (Balco), an affiliate of India focused global miner, …
With the government keen to close out the sale of the residual stakes in Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco) and Hindustan Zinc (HZL) by the end of the fiscal, the London-listed Vedanta Resources is readying the R17,000 crore it would need to pay for the equity, Vedanta Group executive chairman Anil …
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said the mines ministry had moved a note for the sale of the government’s residual stake in Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL) and Bharat Aluminium (Balco). The matter would go to the Cabinet and the finance ministry would give its views in due course, he …
Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) resumed operations at its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha’s Kalahandi district on Monday, after remaining shut for 10 days due to shortage of bauxite, the main raw material to produce alumina. While the 75 MW captive co-generating plant (CPP) of the complex has been restarted, …
VAL will first start its captive co-generating plant (CPP) to generate steam, necessary for running the refinery A week after a temporary shutdown of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh, Odisha, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), buoyed by bauxite supplies of 40,000 tonnes from Bharat Aluminum Company's (Balco) Kawardah mines in Chhattisgarh, …
Joseph John Rescue workers waited with masks, stretchers and sheets for bodies as heavy earth moving equipment tried to clear debris of a giant chimney that collapsed Wednesday at the Korba power plant site of the Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO), killing at least 25 people and trapping many others. Hopes …
On April 26, 2010, Chhattisgarh additional secretary (law) Ravishankar Sharma wrote to the government’s additional standing counsel in Delhi, Aniruddh P Mai: “The state government has decided to file an SLP [special leave petition] in the Supreme Court against the Bilaspur High Court’s February order [in favour of Balco in …
Anil Agarwal's Vedanta group has offered to sweeten its offers for acquiring the remaining government stakes in Hindustan Zinc (HZL) and Balco. The group may shell out over Rs 21,000 crore, up to 25 per cent more than planned earlier, for buying the government's remaining stakes in HZL and Balco …
A Raipur court on Wednesday admitted a petition filed by Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel against Chief Minister Raman Singh for allegedly entering into a criminal conspiracy and regularising 2,780 acres of land to Balco in Korba district, most of which the company had illegally occupied over the years. Significantly, the …
