Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
With the four-member NC Saxena committee making recommendations against Vedanta in Odisha, prominent environmentalist and member of Transparency International India, Biswajit Mohanty, has written to the State Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for fixing of accountability on the officers indicted in the report. The Saxena committee was set up by the …
BHUBANESWAR: Sharply reacting to the objections raised by the N C Saxena Committee to the proposal to allow bauxite mining by the Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) in the Niyamgiri hills, the State Government on Tuesday asserted that all decisions have been taken as per the Supreme Court directive. The findings …
If there is a single conclusion the Ministry of Environment and Forests can arrive at based on the report of the four-member committee led by Planning Commission member N.C. Saxena on the proposed open cast mining in Orissa's forested Niyamgiri hills, it is this: drop it. The violation of laws …
A panel appointed by the environment ministry to look into the concerns with regard to the Rs 51,000-crore, 12-MTPA steel plant project proposed by the South Korea steel major Posco in Orissa
Nitin Sethi | TNNNew Delhi: Tribal affairs minister Kanti Lal Bhuria has written to environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh that the committee set up under National Advisory Council member, N C Saxena, is going beyond its purview to tell how the Forest Rights Act should be implemented. He has …
New Delhi: The Centre has put the Posco project on hold, pointing to violation of the Forest Rights Act and deliberate attempt by the Orissa administration to hide facts. While not going as far as withdrawing permission given to the Rs 54,000-crore mega steel plant to use forest land, the …
Citing alleged violation of the Forest Rights Act and recommendations of a committee it appointed, the Environment Ministry has directed the Orissa government to stop all work related to the showpiece POSCO iron and steel project in Jagatsinhpur district of the state with immediate effect.Within hours of receiving the order …
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: The implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act in Madhya Pradesh faces a host of problems due to a strange interpretation of the Act by the Forest Department. While the department's opposition to the Act is no secret
New Delhi: Going purely on the assurances of Andhra Pradesh government, the Union environment and forests ministry has cleared the longpending case of diverting 3,831 hectares of forest land for Rs 8,000-crore Polavaram project on Godavari river in AP meant to provide irrigation water to four districts. The clearance came …
New Delhi: The Union ministry for environment and forests has set up a fourmember committee headed by retired environment secretary Meena Gupta to investigate if the Orissa government has complied with the Forest Rights Act at the Posco site. The ministry
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government on Tuesday began acquiring land for the Rs 51,000 crore steel project by South Korean major Posco in Jagatsinghpur district even as the joint Central committee described the process as `illegal
Sunny Sebastian JAIPUR: Raikas, the community of herders, have sought the application of Forest Rights Act and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity(CBD) in ensuring grazing rights to their animals in the forest land. The monsoon season is a testing time for these livestock keepers who graze large herds of …
Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: A committee of secretaries headed by home secretary G K Pillai has been formed to push for speedy implementation of the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act. The Act, implemented in 1996, intended to hand over greater powers to tribal communities over the land …
