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 …
35 Mines Operating Without Permission: Environment Ministry Rachna Singh | TNN Jaipur: The Aravalli hills in Rajasthan is crumbling to the pressure of illegal mining despite a Supreme Court order earlier this year putting a blanket ban on any kind of mining activity in the hills. If the present activities …
THE Supreme Court’s Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has cleared the way for Dhamra port in Odisha. It did so by overruling a site inspection report of the eastern regional office of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on August 17. Interpreting a state government notification in favour of the …
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 rejection of forest clearance for mining Niyamgiri is indeed a historic decision. It has vindicated the historical injustice done, in this case to Dongaria and Kutia Kondh tribal communities, due to the non-recognition of their forest rights on ancestral lands and their habitat in the consolidation of state forests …
Anirudh Burman & CV Madhukar The recent order of the ministry of environment and forests (MoE&F;) rejecting the application for grant of forest clearance to the Orissa Mining Company (the Vedanta project) has raised a number of important questions. The order cited the company
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
As mining is increasingly becoming the most controversial issue in the country, the Supreme Court in order to stem the resentment among people against the mega projects, has asked the Union and state governments to follow various Central and state legislations on acquisition of land and regulating mining strictly. Since …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) has denied approval for NTPC's 261-MW Rupsiabagar-Khasiyabara hydro-electric project in Pithoragarh district stating that it was being set up in a highly ecologically sensitive wildlife habitat. The Rupsiabagar-Khasiyabara hydroelectric project was proposed to be set up on river Goriganga in Uttarakhand. NTPC had …
NEW DELHI: Dongria Kondhs of Lanjigarh in Orissa may have received some respite, with the government setting up yet another committee to reconsider how a proposed Vedanta mine in the area could affect the tribe. On Wednesday, the Environment and Forests Ministry constituted the four-member committee to make recommendations on …
KOKRAJHAR, June24: Forest mismangement has ruined the forest wealth in BTC. The department of Forest has admitted that already 30 per cent of BTC forest land is under illegal encroachment. The Book-
Nearly 8,000 of the Dongria Kondh Adivasis, who revere the Niyamgiri mountain as their king and god, fear displacement and disruption of their centuries-old culture once the company gets the clearance to mine the hills. Niyamgiri in Orissa is all set to become a scene of local community resistance to …
The National Green Tribunal Act 2010 approved by the President of India on June 2, 2010. It provides for establishment of National Green Tribunal- a special fast-track court for speedy disposal of environment-related civil cases. An Act to provide for the establishment of a National Green Tribunal for the effective …
The Dhamara port project in Orissa has got a fresh jolt with over 20 politicians including members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Environment and Forests urging the Union minister for environment and forests to take action against the port construction work, which they felt is going on in violation …
Agartala, May 6: The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has reiterated that the State Governments should follow the guidelines regarding prior environmental clearance for undertaking any construction and developmental project in the northeastern region. Officials here today said under the provisions of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, the MoEF …
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, (Forest Rights Act or just FRA hereafter), enacted by the Indian Parliament in 2006, did not emerge from unproblematic and consensual deliberations. Rather the struggle to pass the act, and to keep the key elements intact, was …
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government on Tuesday said it would respond to the interim report submitted by the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee on environment.
Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF) Nagaraj said a probe would be conducted into the unauthorised road works being done in Balur and Miyaru reserve forests coming under Mudigere and Belthangady taluks respectively. Speaking to Deccan Herald on Wednesday, he said he was unaware of the developments until they were reported …
Site inspection report concerning violation for diversion of 660.749 ha of forest land in Kalahandi (South) forest division and Rayagada forest division in favour of the Orissa Mining Corporation Ltd (OMC) for mining of bauxite in Lanjigarh bauxite mines.
