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 …
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has blamed “abnormal” delays in getting environment and forest clearances for road projects among the reasons for the current downturn in the sector. In a letter to the ministry of road transport and highways on Monday, NHAI chairman RP Singh said the environment …
New Delhi: Heeding to states’ plea for simplification of green clearance process, the Union environment and forests ministry has come out with detailed guidelines giving more powers to states by exempting certain category of industries, constructions and mining of minor minerals — including river sand mining projects in medium size …
Heeding to states' plea for simplification of green clearance process, the Union environment and forests ministry has come out with detailed guidelines giving more powers to states by exempting certain category of industries, constructions and mining of minor minerals — including river sand mining projects in medium size lease area …
Veerappa Moily, the Union environment minister eases environmental clearance norms and exempts select industries & mining projects from either providing environmental impact assessment reports or holding public hearings when they are approved by the state government. The EIA Notification, 2006 mandates prior Environmental Clearance (EG) for new projects or activities …
The State government has notified the Karnataka Minor Mineral Concession (Amendment) Rules 2013, with provisions to streamline mining, transportation and storage of sand. The State government has notified the Karnataka Minor Mineral Concession (Amendment) Rules 2013, with provisions to streamline mining, transportation and storage of sand. Addressing a press conference …
Nod Must For Mines Over 20-Ft Deep, Employing Over 50 A law that requires central government clearance for operating quarries that use explosives should be strictly implemented in the state, the high court has directed. The law, Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulations) Act of 1957, would be made applicable …
RJD and Congress ministers had opposed auction policy With coalition partners the Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) and the Congress stepping up opposition to the government’s policy to auction sand from riverbeds, Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday night announced that the government would restore access and control over the minor …
Despite the ban on sand mining, the mafia has continued with mining and illegal transportation of sand, thanks to the lack of coordination between police and revenue officials and the absence of a special squad to prevent sand mining. On December 5 the district collector had imposed a complete ban …
Uttar Pradesh government has admitted before the National Green Tribunal that largescale illegal sand mining had been going on in Gautam Budh Nagar district of the state and said it has arrested 120 persons in this connection. The State government also assured a bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter …
The State government will ban stone quarrying in a five-km radius of dams and reservoirs in Karnataka. Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T B Jayachandra told the Assembly on Wednesday that an order would be issued to this effect. During the discussion on Karnataka Regulation of Stone Crushers (Amendment) Bill, …
Once dominated by agriculture and horticulture, the villages in the panchayat of Mencurem and Dumaxem are today facing a threat from sand mining activities, say some of the 1,411 residents. And although the activity is banned by the National Green Tribunal, it is under way in a clandestine and haphazard …
The Valpoi police have registered a case regarding illegal mining of minor minerals in Vante and Advoi villages of Sattari. The complaint was lodged by RTI activist Sudip Tamankar nearly a week ago. Tamankar had said that he had filed the complaint as the illegal activities were degrading the environment …
The government on Monday declared a part of Thol wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat as a Eco Sensitive Zone (ESZ) and banned mining, commercial and industrial activity in the area. A draft notification of the environment ministry said that the government shall also constitute a State level Eco-sensitive Zone Monitoring Committee …
The ministry in its notification has prohibited all new and existing mining of minor and major minerals, stone quarrying and crushing units with immediate effect in all the six sanctuaries No mining will be allowed around the Eco Sensitive Zone (ESZ) of six wildlife sanctuaries and national parks in Goa …
The Supreme Court has stayed proceedings in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in connection with illegal mining of sand from river beds, the Tribunal was on Friday informed. The Rajasthan government made the submission before a bench headed by Tribunal (NGT) chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar which had on August 5 …
In a big relief to the general public, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Centre’s application that henceforth only the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests will grant environmental clearance for minor minerals in Haryana and not the State government. A three-judge Green Bench comprising Justices A. K. Patnaik, …
The Supreme Court today allowed the use of forest areas in Faridabad for holding marriages and parties but suspended mining of 20 million metric tonnes of minor minerals in Sonepat and Panipat. A three-member Bench headed by Justice AK Patnaik also set aside a Punjab and Haryana High Court order …
Facing rampant mining in the state, Meghalaya government said on Wednesday said that while sand mining would not be banned, it would put in place regulations and provide alternative options for sustainable livelihood for those involved in the activity. Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma today said, “It is not necessary …
Though, on February 27, 2012, the Supreme Court's order banned any kind of mining of minor minerals, including sand, without environmental clearance from the Union ministry for environment and forests, and the NGT has issued a restraint order on August 5, 2013, against all sand mining activity being carried out …
The National Green Tribunal today reserved its verdict on Madhya Pradesh's plea for modification of its order banning sand mining in river beds across the country to the extent that district environment committees be allowed to grant clearance for removing sand. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar …
