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 …
Special Correspondent Group of Ministers recommends private players buy 70% of land at market rates CHENNAI: Land acquisition for Special Economic Zones could soon be regulated, with an Empowered Group of Ministers recommending that private players buy 70 per cent of the land at the prevailing market prices and the …
Kadapa, Aug. 9: The Telugu Desam (TD) president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, alleged that the government was taking land from the poor in the name of establishing Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and demanded the release of a white paper on SEZs. Speaking to newsmen at Potladurthy in Yerraguntla mandal in …
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi August 09, 2008, 4:32 IST Bauxite mining activities of Sterlite, which were obstructed by local communities in the Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi district of Orissa, have now got the go-ahead from the Supreme Court but petitioners say that popular protests will continue and there is …
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has embarked on a grand project of four- and/or six-laning of the existing roads to a target of 14,000 km, especially the east-west and north-south corridors. This is a good thing because the country needs proper roads for its development and road construction …
BY PARWEZ HAFEEZ and DIBYAJYOTI CHAUDHURI Kolkata,July 31: A day after Tata Motors' managing director Ravikant expressed serious concerns over the continuing disturbances around Nano's plant at Singur and warned that their patience was running out, the state government invited Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee for talks. She contemptuously rejected …
This UNDP study focuses on the situation of land rights and ownership in Orissa. Provides concrete suggestions to improve access of the poor to land and highlights the need to arrest processes that are promoting land alienation. Access to land is acutely important in rural India, where the incidence of …
DH News Service, Mangalore: "Projects like MSEZ and PCPIR are blatant attack on the district and hence protests must be triggered against these projects to see to it that they do not come into existence here,"said High Court retired judge Justice M F Saldanha. Addressing the news conference on Wednesday, …
Or, how to bend over to please industry POSCO needs 300 million tonnes of coal for 30-35 years of operation. So, on July 26, 2006, the state government recommended to the Centre that the company be allotted coal blocks in Chhendipada-I, Baitarani West, and Chhendipada-II for captive mining. The latter …
Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are desperate, state governments are willing to hand land, forest, water over to industry. Raucously, because they are really desperate, people all over India have begun to use all available means to contest the …
21 February, 2006: Anti-POSCO groups demonstrate against the visit of the then Panchayati Raj Minister, Dr Damodar Rout 8 December, 2006: Anti-POSCO convention held at Balitutha February, 2007: Polling for panchayat elections could not be held on some booths in Dhinkia following protests 13 October, 2007: Four POSCO-India executives taken …
The great Indian State no more sits on the fence, has crossed over to the industry"s side on the sidelines of G-8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan, the Indian Prime Minister committed to his South Korean counterpart he would try his best to help posco begin constructing its steel plant, at …
Makarand Gadgil / Vasuli Shinde (pune) July 30, 2008, 0:51 IST Battle lines are drawn here in village Vasuli Shinde on the banks of river Sudha, near Chakan
Atiq Khan Govt. disapproves course of alignment of highway in Farrukhabad, Unnao and Ballia districts Next move depends on the suggestions of District Magistrates and other officials LUCKNOW: The Greater Noida-Ballia Ganga Expressway project in Uttar Pradesh has hit a roadblock on the proposed course of alignment of the eight-lane …
Hyderabad, July 22: The Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (Huda) is planning to go for another round of land acquisition. This time it is for the radial roads project, which connects the Inner Ring Road with the Outer Ring Road. Several residential, commercial and defence properties will be acquired for widening …
KORAPUT: Tension gripped Hindalco Maliparbat mines following a group clash between two groups of workers. Six persons were injured. Police have arrested 18 persons and forwarded them to court. Sources said about 200 pro-Hindalco activists from Kankadaamba village attacked Maliguda villagers, who are anti-Hindalco, while they were distributing leaflets to …
Rituparna Bhuyan / New Delhi July 21, 2008, 0:23 IST Land acquisition for special economic zones (SEZs) is stuck because of a year-old directive by the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) that bars state governments from carrying out compulsory acquisition of land for the zones. The EGoM in April 2007 …
