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 …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Jitendra Singh Vs Ministry of Environment & Others dated 25/11/2019 regarding allotment of local ponds to private industrialists. The case was dismissed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on the basis of an affidavit filed by Greater Noida Industrial …
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of the world’s largest paper companies, is mired in more than one hundred active conflicts over land rights with rural communities across the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo, resisting repeated demands from activists to be transparent about progress made towards settling its disputes, …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Mahanadi Coal Fields Ltd. & Others Vs Mathias Oram & Others dated 21/08/2019 regarding employment to people whose land was acquired by Mahanadi Coal Fields Ltd. The Solicitor General submitted that apart from villages Kirpsira and Ratansar, the lands …
Growing commercial interests, population growth and conservation initiatives are increasing competition for land in Tanzania. At the same time, land-related conflicts are on the rise. These trends undermine livelihoods by threatening rural people’s access to land and tenure security. Women tend to be disproportionately affected as available land diminishes, disadvantaged …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Gram Pradhan & Residens of Tapoban Vs State of Uttarakhand dated 01/08/2019. Construction of barrage by the National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) for the Vishnugad project in village Tapovan, District Chamoli, Uttarakhand in the year 2005 had created problems …
Twenty-three people were killed in India last year for defending their land and environment, with only the Philippines and Colombia recording more deaths, human rights group Global Witness said in a report. The report, titled “Enemies of the State”, mentioned the deaths of 13 protestors allegedly in police firing in …
Govt also looking to privatise and split Bharat Coking Coal Coal India share sale to employees receives a lukewarm response With miners, which took coal blocks for own use, performing poorly, the government is planning not to auction mines to captive users. Instead, it will allot or auction rights only …
Of the target of 175 gw, the government wants to have 100 gw of solar and 60 gw of wind energy The installation of renewable energy in India has crossed 80 gigawatt (gw), against the government target of 175 gw by 2022. According to Minister of New & Renewable Energy …
CAG of India’s report on Maharashtra (Economic Sector) that was tabled in state assembly on the last day of the monsoon session (2nd July) talks about problems that continue to plague irrigation projects, even those that are slated to receive central government grants under Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP). The …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Illegal Land Acquisition and Mining, 01/07/2019. As per information provided by Ministry of Coal, Eastern Coalfields Limited have some coal mines namely Rajmahal Expansion OCP, Hura C OCP, Simlong OCP, district Godda and upcoming project in Chupervita of Rajmahal area under Rajmahal Coalfields and …
Haridwar: In a move to give boost to eco-tourism in Dehradun, state administration have announced that it will make an eco-tourism park by spending Rs 70 crore on a patch of around 12.45 hectares in Tarla Nagal forest area of Sahastradhara. However, the move has not been welcomed by green …
However, it issues notice to govt. on NHAI’s appeal against HC’s ruling The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Madras High Court order quashing the land acquisition process for the ₹10,000-crore Salem-Chennai eight-lane greenfield corridor project. A vacation bench comprising Justices Indu Malhotra and M.R. Shah, however, issued …
Gurgaon: Residents of three villages, including Manesar, Kasan and Kho, gathered outside the Haryana State Industry and Infrastructure Corporation (HSIIDC) office in Manesar on Wednesday and protested against the acquisition of nearly 160 acres of land in these villages. This land was acquired by HSIIDC in 2007 for development purposes …
The latest pulse check for the economy is due on May 31, when the government will release gross domestic product data for the quarter ended March. India's new government should make it easier for companies to acquire land and scrap archaic laws around hiring workers as part of its first …
This report – “Asia-Pacific landscape transformations – Solutions for sustainability” – was motivated by the stark and rapid changes in landscapes that can be observed across the region and their consequences. It was also motivated by a lack of appropriate visions of sustainable landscapes in policy and decision-making, and the …
World Bank and KfW likely to give major chunk of funds The city is set to get Rs. 4,500 crore for development of stormwater drains and large underground drains as funding from multilateral funding agencies. Work on development of stormwater drains in the Kovalam basin — in the southern part …
Voluntary, permanent land protection is a key conservation process in many coun-tries. Concerns with the effectiveness of such decentralized processes exist due tothe potential for (1) selection bias, that is, the protection of parcels whose land coverwould have been conserved in the absence of protection, and (2) local spillover effects,that …
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday reassured the nation that the government will not reverse the land reform program implemented two decades ago. However, he said the government will compensate the former white commercial farmers for improvements on the land in line with the country's constitution. He spoke as his …
The group has fielded Datta Karbat from the Palghar constituency for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Mumbai: Farmers of Palghar and Dahanu districts have expressed disappointment at the ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEF) giving clearance to the National High Speed Railway Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) to remove 1.5 …
Kenya should enact a robust legislative framework to ensure that land and other natural resources owned by indigenous communities are protected during exploration of oil and gas, campaigners said on Wednesday. The campaigners who spoke at a forum in Nairobi said that protection of community land rights is key to …
