Affidavit filed by Chhattisgarh East West Railway Limited in the matter of Sudiep Shrivastava Vs Union of India & Others dated 15/04/2025. The appeal was disposed of by the NGT, April 29, 2019. However, the order was challenged before the Supreme Court (SC). The SC, November 26, 2024 disposed of …
An Indonesian government-sanctioned but independent human rights commission has told Japan to carefully review the construction of a controversial $4 billion thermal power plant funded by an Indonesia-Japan consortium as human rights violations during the land acquisition process have been uncovered. “We asked Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and (the …
Gurgaon: Huda has expedited the process of land acquisition for a sewage treatment plant (STP) in Sector 107, following an NGT order asking the authority to use "emergency clauses of land acquisition law" to meet the March 2017 deadline for the project. The 175 MLD (million litres per day) capacity …
AHMEDABAD: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has filed a petition in Gujarat high court questioning provisions of the 2013 land acquisition laws by which the acquisition is rendered void if the state government fails to pay compensation and take possession of the acquired land within five years. RIL's questioning the provisions …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Friends of Nature Charitable Society Vs State of Kerala represented by its Chief Secretary dated 05/01/2016 regarding the proposed acquisition of land to the extent of 132 acres for the construction and development of Calicut International Airport. …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of K. B. Ramachandra Raje Vs State of Karnataka & Others dated 16/12/2015 regarding proposal for acquiring an area of 94 acres 28 gunthas of land located in Vijayashreepura village, adjoining the ‘Vijayanagar Extension’, as mentioned in the Schedule thereto …
The State Cabinet on Thursday decided to constitute an advisory committee to examine and make appropriate recommendation to the State government on proposals seeking denotification of lands under the 2013 Land Acquisition Act. The Cabinet meeting, which was chaired by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, decided to set up the committee under …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Ch. Narasimha Rao & Others Vs Land Acquisition Officer, Eluru & Others dated 09/12/2015 on whether Reference Applications filed by the appellants under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act"), was beyond …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Acquisition of Forest Land, 08/12/2015. State wise details of area approved under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 by the Central Government for various developmental activities during the last three years i.e. 2012 to 2014 and current year is given at Annexure-I.
Judgement of the Delhi High Court in the mater of Government of NCT of Delhi Vs Poonam Gupta dated 08/12/2015 regarding allotment of alternative plots under the Scheme of Large Scale Acquisition, Development and Disposal of Land in Delhi, 1961. The Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs formulated a …
The proposed 9900 MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) has run into fresh trouble with the partial and conditional five-year environmental clearance granted to it on November 26, 2010 lapsing last week. Anti-nuclear plant activists have written to Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar with a request to issue stop work …
Following the Supreme Court judgement of 2014 cancelling the allocation of more than 200 captive coal blocks, the government quickly brought in legislation and began the process of their reallocation. While the new allocation framework is an improvement over the previous regime, it suffers from many potentially serious shortcomings. These …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Lalaram & Others Vs Jaipur Development Authority & Others dated 01/12/2015 regarding compulsory acquisition of the appellants lands for the Indian Army for its “Field Firing Range” in the year 1981.
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Mining Policy in Tribal Areas, 30/11/2015. The Constitution of India provides safeguards to the Scheduled Tribes. In recent years The Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, The Right to Fair …
The report, Mining, the Aluminium Industry and Indigenous Peoples: Enhancing Corporate Respect for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, provides a global overview of the challenges facing indigenous peoples, and presents five case studies from Australia, Cambodia, Guinea, India and Suriname. The case studies reveal that indigenous communities are affected by primary production …
With the Bihar verdict not going in the BJP-led NDA’s favour, the road for the much delayed legislation only gets tougher from here. While finance minister Arun Jaitley has exuded hope that the NDA government would be able to build fresh consensus on amending the controversial Land Acquisition legislation and …
Farmers affected by the four laning of the Nagchala to Manali stretch (National Highway-21) have decided to intensify their agitation against inadequate compensation and lack of transparency in the land acquisition process. Four-lane Sangharsh Samiti president Brig Khushal Thakur (retd) said they held a meeting at Bhuntar yesterday and decided …
As many as 60 hectares, on which there are 600 shops, on either side of the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur road are set to be acquired as a part of the four-laning project of national highway-70 soon. The total stretch of the road is 58 km — starting from Rama Mandi in Jalandhar …
Farmers of this hamlet have started resisting the government’s move to acquire 56 acres of land to establish a grain market here. A panchayat of farmers held under the aegis of the Bhartiya Kisan Union Ganrajya Bharat has served a one-month ultimatum on the government to cancel the process of …
The Environment Ministry's green panel EAC has deferred the decision to grant environment clearance to the KRIBHCO Shyam Fertilizers for expansion of Rs 4,132 crore ammonia and urea project in Uttar Pradesh, and has sought more information. The ministry gives environment clearances (EC) to 'A' category projects based on the …
Members of the Four-Lane Sangharsh Samiti will meet Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh during Dasehra celebrations over lack of transparency in land acquisition for the four-laning of the Nerchowk-Manali stretch of the National Highway-21. In a statement issued here today, samiti president Brig Khushal Thakur (retd) said it was decided in …
