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 …
A ruling by Supreme Court, which would have drastically curtailed the notorious ‘human safaris’ in the Andaman Islands is being ignored by the islands’ authorities. Earlier this month, Supreme Court imposed a 5-kilometer buffer zone around the Jarawa Reserve, to help reduce the exploitation of the tribe by tourists. The …
Farmers allege compensation not enough A group of men is sitting under a grove, playing a game of cards at noon. Around them, thousands of acres of land, mostly arable, lie dotted with small hamlets. There are no roads, just dust tracks that wind around low limestone stocks and through …
SHILLONG: The State Government has taken exception to the delay by Lafarge Umiam Mining Private Ltd (LUMPL) in handing over the proposed land to allow the Government to start the process of compensatory afforestation. As a penalty for carrying out limestone mining in forest land measuring about 116.589 hectare at …
JOWAI: In a bid to check unscientific limestone mining in War-Jaintia, the Dolloi, Nongtalang Elaka on Saturday constituted a coordination committee headed by the Dolloi, Chui Pohlynjar and representatives from other villages as members of the committee. The meeting was held at Unitarian Upper Primary School, Nongtalang and was attended …
JOWAI: Unscientific limestone mining in War-Jaintia, Amlarem Sub-Division in Jaintia Hills has become a cause of concern for residents of Nongtalang village and its surrounding villages who are facing an impending water scarcity in the area. A huge quantity of limestone is exported to Bangladesh via Tamabil on a daily …
BUILDING NEW FOUNDATIONS Aditya Birla company could end up building a 1-2 MT cement plant in the African country Aditya Birla group’s UltraTech Cement, India’s largest cement maker, is in talks to acquire a large limestone mine in Mozambique for about . 1,500 crore. The negotiations between the Mumbai-based conglomerate …
Jaipur:In a bid to make full use of the natural resources and enhance employment opportunities, the state government has decided to allot mining licenses of two major minerals, iron ore and limestone, only to those companies who are keen to set up plants or value addition processing units in the …
This is the draft EIA report of integrated project (cement plant, captive power plant & captive limestone mine) at Gulbarga district, Karnataka by Orient Cement. Orient Cement (a division of Orient Paper & Industries Ltd) proposes to setup a Greenfield cement plant near Itgi & Digaon villages, Chittapur Taluk, Gulbarga …
Sacred groves are traditionally managed forest patches of palaeo-endemics, which are conserved due to religious beliefs and represent climax vegetation. Sometimes these groves have higher richness and regeneration of medicinal and other economic plants than other reserve forests. (Correspondence) Original Source
SHILLONG: The KSU’s Jaiñtia Hills district unit has decided to oppose Friday’s public hearing on the proposal of the Cement Manufacturing Company Limited (CMCL) to acquire more land for mining of lime stones in Lum Shnong area in Jaiñtia Hills. The Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board (MSPCB) is scheduled to …
Shillong, March 18: A social organisation in Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills district has exhorted residents of the Narpuh Elaka not to lend support to a cement plant which is intending to increase the area for limestone mining. According to a government notification issued recently, a public hearing would be held on …
Shillong: The Meghalaya State Pollution Board (MPSCB) will conduct a public hearing on a proposal of the Cement Manufacturing Company Limited (CMCL) to acquire more land for mining of limestone in Lumshnong area in Jaintia Hills. The public hearing assumes significance in the context that degradation of the environment in …
Certain legal aspects need to be incorporated: Mukul SHILLONG: Meghalaya, which does not have a mining policy till date, will have to wait further as the State Cabinet on Monday night deferred the finalisation of the much-awaited policy saying that certain legal aspects need to be incorporated in it. Briefing …
Bhubaneswar: The total value of minerals produced in Odisha is the highest in the country. The state produced minerals worth Rs 28,287 crore in 2010-11. In term of value of output of minerals, Odisha ranks highest in India in recent years, and its share has been increasing, according to the …
SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Government’s clean chit to cement plants which are breaching the forest conservation act has been out rightly questioned by the Maitshaphrang Movement, an NGO which used the RTI findings to reveal the alleged exploitation of forest by these cement giants in the Khliehriat sub-division of Jaintia Hills …
SHILLONG: Endorsing the State government official team’s clean chit to four giant cement factories operating in Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Bindo Lanong attributed unscientific coal mining as a major cause of pollution of streams and rivers in Khleihriat sub division. It is an irrefutable fact that unscientific …
SHILLONG: The long-delayed State Mining Policy is likely to see the light of the day with the State Government asserting that the Policy would be tabled in the Assembly during the upcoming Budget session which is scheduled to start from March 9. “We are planning to table the Mining Policy …
SHILLONG: The Jaintia People Welfare Organization (JPWO), which has been opposing setting up of cement plants in Jaintia Hills district, conducted a survey of the limestone quarries, which the Cement Manufacturing Company Ltd. (CMCL) has taken on lease and also the area where the company had set up its plant. …
Shillong, Jan. 5: The Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board is awaiting a detailed report from the Central Pollution Control Board on the actual reason behind the contamination of Lukha river in Jaintia Hills, which resulted in the death of many fishes. The Lukha river near the coal mining sites in …
SHILLONG: Highlighting the sensitivity of the issue of mining in the State, Deputy Chief Minister Bindo M Lanong on Wednesday assured of bringing out the State Mining Policy at the earliest. “We would like to put in place the Mining Policy at the earliest to regulate mining activities in the …
