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No Activity Till HC Hearing On Feb 25 Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN New Delhi: The Aravalis will finally get some relief when seven years of relentless mining in Faridabad finally comes to an end on Thursday-Friday midnight with the Haryana government taking possession of the two mining sites. This …
Lease for Khori Jamalpur and Sirohi mines is due to expire in February but an extension is being sought on the grounds of revenue and employment loss. Times City explores how catastrophic it could be for the mountain range which stands in the way of Delhi
Tanushree Roy Chowdhury Posted: Jan 28, 2009 at 0011 hrs IST New Delhi: A Supreme Court ban on all mining and construction activities in the Aravalli areas of the Gurgaon and Faridabad districts has failed to curb an alarming rate of groundwater depletion in these areas, resulting from the mining …
NEW DELHI: The numbers say it all. The extent of encroachment of protected Aravali forest land by land sharks in Faridabad and Gurgaon is evident from the number of cases filed against violators, and the convictions, in the past decade. An official report states that a staggering 10,012 cases were …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has stated in its additional report filed last week that it will treat the entire Aravalli range area as a prohibited zone for mining, barring specific locations, to ensure their environmental sustainability. Underlining that with duecoordination with the state government, it …
Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN New Delhi: The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has started the process of identifying constructions encroaching on the Aravali range in Faridabad. In the past, several farmhouses have been demolished in Gurgaon for being on forest land and for not having the relevant clearances. Senior Haryana …
CEC Report Raises Spectre Of Demolition Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN Faridabad: Private developers in Faridabad in recent years have invaded the Aravalis with a vengeance. Officials claim over 2,000-2,500 acres of forest land have been put to non-forest use including residential, educational and religious institutions and a handful of …
NEW DELHI: Having recommended that constructions encroaching on the Aravali range in Faridabad be demolished, the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) appointed by the Supreme Court has turned its gaze upon Gurgaon. Committee sources told TOI that approximately 2,000 farmhouses in Gurgaon are under the scanner. The final report will be …
R. Sedhuraman Legal Correspondent New Delhi, January 16 Rejecting the plea of miners in the Aravalli ranges for immediate relief, the Supreme Court today asked the Haryana and Rajasthan governments and the mine owners to file their response to the Central Empowered Committee's (CEC) report recommending a blanket ban on …
Chandigarh: Coming down heavily on farmhouse owners in the Aravalli Hills, the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has initiated criminal proceedings against 155 of the rich and famous from Delhi and its periphery, all of whom bought plots from four builders. Earlier this year, prosecutions were also lodged against …
Long treks across arid stretches for a pitcher of water are becoming a thing of the past as water-harvesting projects are transforming the landscape of Rajasthan. Sarbjit Dhaliwal on how a report in The Tribune brought about a change in the water deficit Sikar-Alwar belt Rajasthan, a state whose very …
Gurgaon: The Gurgaon administration has appointed six sector supervisors to implement the action plan prepared for curbing illegal mining activities in the Aravalis. According to order issued by deputy commissioner Deepti Umashankar, sector supervisors have been appointed to ensure that no such activity is carried out in the district. These …
The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Haryana government on a bunch of petitions seeking renewal of mining licenses in the Aravalli Hills region. A Forest Bench, headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, asked the state government and the Central Empowered Committee, which has to clear projects in the …
Despite several measures undertaken by the state Government in the past to check illegal mining in Aravalis, the menace has continued to haunt the state. Taking a serious view of the on going illegal mining, the state government has now directed the regional officers of the Haryana Pollution Control Board …
Dr. ARIJIT PASAYAT, J. 1. I.A. 1901 of 2005 relates to the land situated in Aravalli Range. Challenge basically is to the communication dated 31.1.2005 by the Divisional Forest officer, Faridabad requesting the Commissioner, Faridabad, the Administration Haryana, Urban Development Authority (in short the `HUDA') and the District Town Planner, …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court order of October 20, 2002, had banned mining in the Aravali hills and had observed that the whole hill system came under the category of
SC Banned Stone Mining Here In 2002 But Mafia Strikes Back In Full Force Gurgaon: Five years after the Supreme Court banned illegal mining in the Aravalli hills in 2002, the unlawful activity has resumed in Gurgaon district, thanks to the alleged connivance of some forest officials with the mining …
the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) has attracted serious criticism after granting clearances for two mining projects in Faridabad in July 2006. The Supreme Court of India has directed the ministry to explain its criteria for granting the clearances. A ministry official, however, says the court's order has …
The question for consideration at this stage is whether the mining activity carried out in Villages Khori Jamalpur and Sirohi in District Faridabad in Haryana are in violation of the orders passed by this Court on 6th May, 2002. According to the State Government and leaseholders, the mining activity is …
