Judgment of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Protection of Environment and Public Service Committee Vs Union of India & Others dated 14/11/2022. The matter related to illegal and unauthorized mining of limestone on large scale in districts Gir Somnath and Junagadh in Gujarat …
After receiving a notice from the Ministry of Environment and Forest, limestone mining operation was kept in abeyance Ambuja Cements will resume mining operations in Himachal Pradesh with the High Court granting a stay on the Ministry of Environment and Forest's order to keep them in abeyance earlier this month. …
After his pleas went unheard over illegal mining near coast and forest, Ramsinh Barad, 42, an elected member of the Dhamlej village Panchayat in Sutrapada taluka of Gir-Somnath district has threatened to immolate himself in his village on March 2. Barad says that he has notarized his affidavit and submitted …
The Gujarat high court on Thursday directed the state government to close with immediate effect all minor mineral mining activities that are underway without environment clearance (EC). Construction business might have an adverse impact as minor minerals include sand and lime stone. The high court has also ordered to stop …
The State government has to look for lands for the thriving cement plants in Jaintia hills to fulfill the compensatory afforestation programmes as directed by the Apex court in 2011. State Principal Secretary (forest and Environment) M.S Rao conceded that these cement companies have to adhere to the Court directives, …
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its decision on setting up of an environment regulator for evaluating projects, enforcing environmental conditions for approv-als and imposition of penalties. A special green bench headed by Justice AK Patnaik while reserving its judgment on the issue said the government should …
The government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that a ‘super’ environment regulator may not be required if an equally effective regulatory system, adhering to the court's guiding principles in this regard, and the forest policy, 1988, is put in place. However, an authority could be set up at the …
The Rajasthan high court on Wednesday issued notices to the state government and one Ultra Tech cement company on a petition filed by Banswara-based mining businessman Fakhruddin who alleged that the mines department had blatantly violated law while awarding mining leases. Justice R S Rathore issued the notice asking respondents …
Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued notices to the state government and agriculture minister Babu Bokhiria over three petitions demanding revocation of suspension of his sentence in Rs 54-crore Porbandar mining scam. Justice S G Shah has sought replies from both the parties by October 17 on demand that the …
Expressing concern over the lack of initiatives by the authorities to prepare a concrete environment plan, the State of Environment Report (SoER) has stressed launching a scientific action plan to combat environmental hazards. “The data on air quality is missing and the authorities concerned have not introduced a system of …
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL), registered on Wednesday, has alleged large-scale and unabated illegal limestone mining in Porbandar with the complicity of State Agriculture Minister Babu Bokhiria, who was convicted in an illegal limestone mining case in June this year. The PIL demanded an independent probe either by CBI or …
Meghalaya is only state in the country which records the highest density of elephant per square area. But the challenge is of maintaining the numbers despite all odds such as extension of human activities into elephant habitats. According to the records present with the Forest department, the density of elephants …
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to apprise it within four weeks of the steps being taken for appointment of a national regulator for evaulating projects, enforcing environmental conditions for approvals and imposition of penalties on violators. A special green bench, headed by Justice AK Patnaik, asked Solicitor …
Officials from the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) and the Department of Geology and Mining have completed the physical survey of 17 major mineral quarries and five granite quarries, in a little more than 70 hectares in the western districts of Tamil Nadu. This project has been launched to …
Rajkot (Gujarat): A senior minister in the Narendra Modi government was on Saturday sentenced to three years imprisonment by a court in Porbandar in the Rs. 54-crore illegal limestone mining case of 2006. Gujarat Water Resources minister Babu Bokhiria was convicted by Chief Judicial Magistrate C.V. Pandya. Bokhiria along with …
West Khasi Jaintia Hills Deputy Commissioner PS Dkhar has issued an order banning mining of limestone at Nongtalang and Amtapoh villages in the district. When contacted, Dkhar informed that he issued the order on Saturday last after receiving a petition from the traditional bodies in the areas expressing their concern …
SHILLONG: Marking the world Environment Day with a heavy heart, renowned columnist Rev HH Mohrmen observed that if the government falls back on introducing and implementing strict laws to check unregulated mining, the state will witness many dead rivers as is the case of Jaintia Hills. Terming Jaintia Hills as …
JOWAI: Concerned over an impending water crisis in Nongtalang area under Amlarem Sub-division in Jaintia Hills, owing to large-scale and unscientific limestone mining in the surrounding areas, local village heads along with an environment activist have shot off a letter to Union Minister of Environment and Forests, Ms Jayanthi Natarajan, …
The Virbhadra Singh-led Congress government, in a late evening cabinet decision on Wednesday, decided to grant licence to Reliance Industries for setting up a cement plant in the Chopal tehsil of apple-producing upper Shimla district. The cement plant would be based on limestone, shale and quartzite and was given a …
Navdanya, the People’s Science Institute and the Friends of Doon — all local environment protection groups — have urged Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna to immediately cancel the memorandum of understanding signed with Coca-Cola that plans to set up a unit in Vikas Nagar area near here. “We will never …
A memorandum of understanding signed between multinational beverage giant Coca Cola and Uttarakhand government to set up a Rs 600 crore bottling plant in the district has triggered protests by environmentalists who claim the project would adversely impact the hill state’s fragile ecology. Noted environmentalists Avdhash Kaushal, Anil Prakash Joshi, …
