Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Slackened progress in road building is mainly on account of various issues including delays in environment and forest clearance and land acquisition, Parliament was informed today. “The progress of construction of National Highways has been slow due to several problems such as land acquisition, shifting of utilities, environmental and forest …
Tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo has trashed the circular issued by the environment ministry that seeks to dilute the rights of tribals on forestland, making public the differences within the Cabinet over the requirement of the gram sabhas’ consent before awarding environmental clearance to development projects. Deo on …
The government, on Monday, approved 13 power projects, entailing investments worth Rs.33,000 crore, which were pending due to various reasons. Of the 20 projects reviewed by the newly appointed Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI), 13 projects, involving investment of about Rs.33,000 crore, have been cleared, an official statement says. “These …
Standing Committee on Coal and Steel present this Thirty-Third Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) relating to the Ministry of Coal. The Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Coal were laid on the Table of the House on 12.03.2013. Under rule 331E of the Rules of …
Vedanta group firm Sesa Goa is hopeful of securing forest clearances in a “matter of days” to resume operations in Karnataka, a top company official said. The company’s mine in Chitradurga district is among those in the State on which the Supreme Court had last week lifted the ban. “We …
After delinking the environment and forest clearances for highway projects, the environment ministry is mulling over a proposal to relax clearance norms for hydro-power projects. The ministry is considering a proposal that allows hydro-power projects to initiate the forest clearance process without even completing comprehensive river basin study. The relaxation …
New Delhi: Rejection of big-ticket mining proposals such as Vedanta has been a rare exception in the UPA’s nine-year reign. The UPA has given clearance to cut a whopping six lakh hectares of forests — of these more than 2.5 lakh hectares were for mining — since it came to …
Union ministry of tribal affairs has asked Odisha state government to raise awareness on this Supreme Court order dated 18 April 2013 that continued the ban on bauxite mining by Vedanta Aluminium in the Niyamgiri Hills. Read text of this order. Supreme Court judgement dated 18/04/2013 in W.P.(C) No.180/2011 Orissa …
There is incontrovertible evidence that the Adani project - port and SEZ - at Mundra in Gujarat has violated and not complied with EC conditions says this report submitted by the committee headed by environmentalist Sunita Narain to the environment ministry. There is incontrovertible evidence that the Adani project – …
Five days after the National Green Tribunal issued a bailable warrant against the chief executive engineer of the PWD for failing to appear in court in the matter of illegal tree felling along the Andheria Mod-Mahipalpur stretch for a road widening project, residents of Vasant Kunj claimed that some more …
The Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) seems to be helping to raze green speed-bumps — ruffling the feathers of environment and tribal activists in the process — with environment clearances having been issued for more than Rs. 45,000 crore worth of projects in its first two months of existence. In …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has accorded stage-I forest clearance to a redesigned Luhri project with the installed capacity scaled down from 775 MW to 588 MW to address environment concerns.The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the ministry has also recommended the project for an environment clearance with …
As many as 125 projects taken up in Jammu and Kashmir under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, the Centrally-funded scheme for expansion of rural road network, are awaiting clearances by the forest department. This was told to the Assembly by state Forest Minister Mian Altaf Ahmed, who said till January …
The government today said 12 coal mining projects, entailing an investment of Rs 1,347 crore, has been identified for speedy clearances within a month. "Twelve coal mining projects with an annual coal production of 36.9 million tonnes...have been identified for expeditious clearance within a month," Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth said …
Following is the text of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh's address at the CII National Conference and Annual General Meeting, in New Delhi on Wednesday: "I am delighted to be here today to inaugurate the CII annual meeting for 2013. I have always believed that both government and business …
Putting an end to the face-off between the National Highways Authority of India and Ministry of Environment & Forests, the latter has delinked environmental and forest clearances in case of all linear projects like roads, transmission lines, rail tracks. The Supreme Court's Forest Bench last week allowed the MoEF to …
New Delhi: Projects worth over Rs 7 lakh crore — which is equivalent to almost half the government spending in the current financial year — are held up in the absence of environmental and forest clearances, land and fuel, putting strain on the creaky infrastructure in the country and becoming …
Work could soon begin in a clutch of stranded highway projects with likely combined investments of over R20,000 crore, as the Union environment ministry is set to give them approvals in one go. The ministry’s blanket approval is enabled by its decision to de-link the environment and forest clearances (EC …
Yet to achieve financial closure for project because of pending draft agreement The West Bengal government has upped the ante against JSW Steel and charged it with delaying the Salboni steel and power project. At Rs 35,000 crore, the investment for the project is the largest in the state. Questioning …
In a move that could give a fillip to India's unconventional gas production, the ministry of environment and forests has given the phase-III clearance for Essar Oil's Raniganj block in West Bengal. The company will now be able to drill up to 650 wells, compared with the current 135. The …
