Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hemant Kumar & Others Vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 13/05/2025. An application was received by the NGT filed by Hemant Kumar on behalf of all the villagers of Gram Panchayat Salani Katola, tehsil Nahan, district Sirmaur, Himachal …
New Delhi: Adding a new twist to the controversy surrounding Adarsh Housing Society, the Union ministry of environment and forests on Tuesday indicated that it had no records of the 31-storey, 100m tall building in the tony Colaba locality having obtained the necessary environmental clearances. Based on TOI reports, the …
BHUBANESWAR: The State government on Monday strongly put forth its stand that no laws had been violated at the project site of the South Korean major Posco
The fate of the Rs 54,000-crore Posco steel plant in Orissa will be discussed tomorrow when the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) will meet Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh to come up with a course of action on the proposed steel plant. The FAC met today to discuss the issue.
Bhubaneswar: Claiming that it never violated any law while implementing the Posco project, the Odisha government on Thursday demanded the Centre to allow work at the plant site. The appeal has been made in a faxed response to a letter written by the Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh …
KOCHI: The National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) & Kerala Swathanthra Matsya Thozhilaly Federation (KSMTF) are getting ready to organise continuous protests in all coastal states of the country which come under the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) 2010, from October 29. Rejecting the draft CRZ notification in toto, they said that it …
The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forest has asked the City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra (CIDCO) to re-examine the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report of the proposed airport in Navi Mumbai. It has also asked CIDCO to conduct fresh studies on the suitability …
With major differences emerging between the members of a key government panel looking into green clearances of Posco steel plant in Orissa, the fate of this single largest FDI projects continues to hang in the balance. On Monday, the panel submitted two reports to the environment ministry. A majority view …
Once self-reliant people have been reduced to coolies and their kids are dropping out of school, finds Sangeetha Neeraja The way industrial development is happening along the coast, traditional fishermen will be reduced to coolies in trawlers. Even that will come to an end in next 10 years as there …
K.S. Sudhi Says it violates CRZ norms Pappinissery society told to withdraw brochure It should foot restoration costs KOCHI: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has directed the Pappinissery Ecotourism Society to
MUMBAI: The state government has set up a ministerial cabinet sub-committee to frame a revised comprehensive policy on sand extraction in Maharashtra. Ironically, not a single expert from the field or environmentalists have been included in the government panel. The six member cabinet sub-committee announced by the state government will …
The draft Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 2010, issued by the the ministry of environment and forests has received more flak than acclaim. Though the notification meets the objective of restricting development activities within 500 metres of the country
The forest and environment department of the Orissa government has written to its Union government counterpart that the site of the proposed Vedanta University Project (VUP) does not fall under the Coastal Zone Regulation (CRZ) area and so there was no possibility of violation of CRZ norms.
AS MAHARASHTRA government pushes for Navi Mumbai as the only site for Mumbai's second airport, the environment ministry has asked for re-examination of three alternative sites. The ministry's expert appraisal committee (EAC) had expressed concerns over the project, saying it would lead to destruction of 121 hectares (ha) of mangroves, …
Agitation against Coastal Regulation Zone Notification 2010 Mass conventions planned on November 21 Plea to increase kerosene quota for fish workers KOLLAM: Fish workers across the country are gearing up to launch strong agitations demanding the withdrawal of the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification 2010 issued recently by the Union Ministry …
Latest draft has triggered fears of indiscriminate construction along shorelines Twenty years, 25 amendments, several committees and notifications after, the issue of regulating development along India's coastlines remains under debate. The latest to run into a roadblock is the draft notification of the Coastal Regulation Zone 2010, allowing slum redevelopment …
