Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Uttarakhand high court on Wednesday scheduled June 3 as the next date for hearing a public interest litigation on illegal mining on the banks and outskirts if river Kosi. The decision came soon after the advocate general assured the HC that no illegal mining will be permitted in the Ganga …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter NAB Lions Home for Aging Blind Vs Kumar Resorts & Ors. dated 26/05/2015 regarding construction activities by Respondent Nos. 1 and 2 (Kumar Resorts & Kumar Ailani) at village Khandala-(Lonavala), Tal. Maval, district Pune. At the hill-top, …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Tony Thomas Vs The Principal Secretary State of Kerala Department of Environment and Climate Change Secretariat dated 20/05/2015 regarding mining and quarrying of minor minerals for construction activities in Kerala.
Taking a strong view of the State Government's declaration on rampant illegal mining, the Jharkhand High Court directed it to immediately close all the illegal mines and crushers being operative in Jharkhand. The court, while hearing a PIL initiated suo motu, also asked the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board to …
The permission to allow mining in Bishanpur and Bhogpur areas of Haridwar district after three days of an announcement regarding its closure has once again stirred a hornet's nest. Even as the district magistrate and director, mining and geology department, pass the buck, Matri Sadan priests on Thursday wrote a …
Daughter petitions Collector to book murder case against miners Seeking action against sand mafia members who hacked her mother to death, a woman from Vickramasingapuram submitted petition to Collector M. Karunakaran on Monday. In her petition, V. Jothi said the sand miners, led by one John Joseph of North Agastihyapuram …
The Uttarakhand high court, taking a serious note of illegal mining of the Kosi riverbed in Udham Singh Nagar's Bajpur, on Wednesday sought responses of the state secretary for industrial development, UDS Nagar district magistrate and the area's divisional forest officer on the issue by April 30. A PIL was …
Hundreds of activists of civil society movements in the State assembled at Muthalamada village in Chittur taluk in Palakkad district on Sunday in a rare show of solidarity against the mining lobby. Activists representing over 20 civil society movements joined hands with the local community in organising the protest. The …
District Magistrate Harish Chand Semwal has directed revenue, administrative, police and irrigation officials to inspect all permitted quarrying lots in the city. The directions come in the wake of reports of illegal quarrying being carried out at the permitted lots. Semwal said there had been complaints of the violation of …
Nexus between political, sand mafia responsible for unabated extraction Jammu and Kashmir is losing nearly Rs 300 crore annually due to illegal extraction of sand, gravel and boulders from rivers as a nexus between sand and political mafia has forced the Geology and Mining Department to silently watch the unlawful …
The Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) district unit has demanded that environmental clearance for sand-mining be given at authorised sand-mining points (kadavus) after completing a scientific study by the Centre for Environment and Development. KSSP office-bearers in a statement here on Tuesday demanded that urgent steps be taken to protect …
The policy's priority will be on exploration of key bulk minerals like iron ore and bauxite To give a fillip to exploration of minerals in the state, the government is working on a mineral exploration policy. The policy's priority will be on exploration of key bulk minerals like iron ore …
The state Pollution Control Board (PCB) has directed field officials to ensure that all existing mining lease holders obtain environmental clearance within six months. The project operators have been asked to submit their applications within three months which will be dealt within six months by the authorities concerned. The National …
Four JCB machines, six trucks, tractor-trailers seized in M’garh Despite repeated crackdowns on mining in the Aravalli hills by the authorities, the mafia continues the illegal practice at various places in the district. Under its ongoing move against the mafia, a team of officials, comprising mining inspector Ashok Kumar, sub-inspector …
The Ministry of Mines has prepared the draft rules named “The Mineral (Auction) Rules, 2015” for the provisions relating to auction of the mineral concessions as provided for under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2015.
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Prateek Singh & Others Vs. Secretary, State of Madhya Pradesh Mining Department & Others on whether in the garb of obtaining temporary quarry permit under Rule 68 of the Minor Mineral Rules, 1996 of the State …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat government has placed before the court the amended rules for the mining activities in the state as per its undertaking given to the court last year. Though the government was expected to come out with the rules for sand mining, it has included other mining activities in the …
In order to check illegal mining in different parts of the state, the government on Thursday decided to formulate a scientific policy in the next two weeks. The decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting of top officials from different government departments in the state capital. Briefing …
Navi Mumbai: Environmentalist Sumaira Abdulali of the NGO Awaaz Foundation has written to the chief minister's office about the rampant illegal sand mining operations taking place in Raigad areas such as Mahad creek, despite a directive issued by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) last year on this subject. Abdulali said …
KOCHI: The state government on Wednesday submitted before the Kerala High Court that environmental clearance has been stipulated for grant of lease or permit for quarrying and mining as per the newly framed Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules 2015. The state filed the counter-affidavit in response to the petitions by …
