The future of mankind will be protected only when the nature is kept unharmed, viewed environmentalists and intellectuals at an award distribution ceremony held by the House of Nature, Environment and Society Trust (HONEST) here on Tuesday. Trust president Dr Sundara Narayan Patro presided over the programme. Asian Institute of …
Government has sent out 146 notices to leading iron and steel makers which were allegedly involved into illegal mining Shah Commission says Rs 60K cr lost to illegal mining in Odisha Minerals worth about Rs 60,000 crore were illegally mined in Odisha during 2008-2011, Justice MB Shah Commission of Inquiry …
Large number of locals protested the illegal sand mining at river Luna of Basapur village under Patkura police limits here on Tuesday. They also stopped the sand lifting work by some persons with the help of JCB machines. Many villagers alleged that some sand mafias, hand in glove with ruling …
Posco India has furnished all information and documents pertaining to the required securing clearance to fell trees at the project site to the state government so that work at the site is expedited. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) had left it on the Odisha government to decide on the issue …
Plan Panel’s Definition To Blame: State New Delhi: Congress and BJP on Monday squabbled over the criterion used by the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat to define the poor. Latching on to a December 2013 circular on the Gujarat government’s website which said only those with daily earning of less …
Veerappa Moily has two seemingly incompatible jobs. As oil minister, he has overseen India’s petroleum and natural gas needs. But now he also runs the environment ministry, where he has issued permits for 100 stalled projects in a month-long spree that has delighted industry but shocked green activists. Since taking …
Official fears harm to Buddhist heritage of the State State government is set to ban quarrying of hillocks dotted around the famous Buddhist sites Lalitgiri, Udaygiri and Ratnagiri, known as ‘Diamond Triangle of Odisha Tourism’ in Jajpur district. “Indiscriminate quarrying of hillocks around Lalitgiri, Udaygiri and Ratnagiri would prove detrimental …
The Manmohan Singh government has had to abandon its bid to facilitate mining in at least a handful of a hundred-odd coal blocks being scanned by the Supreme Court since September 2012. The setback to the Centre’s plans to start production in coal blocks allotted to private firms not being …
The Ashden India Collective, a team comprising Ashden awardees from India headed by solar power expert S P Gon Chaudhuri, has received a grant of Rs 40 lakh from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to prepare an action plan for commercial use of renewable energy in five states of …
Bhadrak: The much-talked bio-toilets have found few takers in Bhadrak district. The ambitious project meant to free the country from open defecation was launched by the ministry of rural development at Dhamra in Bhadrak. Minister for chemical and fertilizers Srikant Jena had inaugurated it in the presence of Union minister …
Institute of Public Auditors of India conducts study between 2007 and 2010 A large chunk of population of Angul district is exposed to contaminated drinking water, says draft internal audit report on district conducted by Institute of Public Auditors of India (IPAI), Odisha chapter. The Institute of Public Auditors of …
If the value of the iron ore and manganese mined in Sundargarh and Keonjhar districts for one year is given to the tribal families of the two Orissa districts, each of the tribals would be richer by Rs 9.43 lakh, says justice MB Shah Commission in its report on Orissa …
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha government has sanctioned Rs 2.25 crore for conservation of blackbucks and freshwater turtles under a state plan scheme of wildlife conservation and protection. The wildlife wing will implement it, said sources. "The conservation of blackbucks would include securing their habitat. Mainly, we want to keep their population intact …
In what could halt many mining activities, the Supreme Court on Monday stayed a ministry of environment and forests notification permitting mining in forest areas for two years without clearances under Forest Conservation Act and Environment Protection Act. The February 1, 2013 notification had told states that mining activities in …
‘The pursuit of super profits has drained the miners of feeling for fellow human beings’ It is one of the most scathing reports from the stable of Justice M.B. Shah Commission on illegal iron and manganese ore mining. It holds businessmen, the Odisha government and the Union government, responsible for …
Peeved over clandestine approach of Odisha Power Generation Corporation (OPGC) officials to acquire land in Tilia village for expansion of Units III and IV (2 X 660 MW) of Thermal Power Station, the villagers convened a meeting on Sunday and vowed not to part with their land for the purpose. …
With an inquiry finding a large number of mines flouting environmental laws in the state, Odisha government has asked the collectors of at least six mineral rich districts to file cases against them. Based on the findings of Justice M B Shah Commission of Enquiry, Forest and Environment secretary R …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Prafulla Samantara Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 24/01/2014 stating that POSCO "would not carry on tree cutting/felling in the forest area" till the Odisha government gives forest clearance. NGT order further states that the "approval of the Central …
Company has also filed 33 applications for alternative bauxite mines Continuing its frenzied efforts to secure alternate bauxite supplies, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) has urged the Odisha government to fast track its applications for three small laterite deposits in Koraput district for mining lease by the end of this month. …
Vedanta Aluminium (VAL) is targeting to achieve a capacity utilisation of 80-90% this month, boosted by availability of bauxite from several sources, even as its plans for captive mining in Odisha remains thwarted by the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) refusal to provide stage II forest clearance to the …
The Odisha government has come up with a host of parameters to prepare an exclusion criteria that will separate high income group from the targeted beneficiary of the food security scheme, which will be implemented in the state by July this year. To implement the central government-sponsored scheme, it has …
