Report by the Deputy Commissioner, Dhanbad (District Ganga Committee) in the matter of M C Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated March 30, 2024. The report was in compliance with the National Green Tribunal order, passed on September 18, 2023; February 5, 2023 and February 20, 2024. The …
KOLKATA, 20 JUNE: Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) will set up dams in Belpahari and Panchet for controlling floods in those areas. Mr Rabindranath Sen, chairman of DVC, today met chief minister Mamata Banerjee and senior officials of the irrigation department to discuss flood controlling measures. Mr Sen said they discussed …
New Delhi West Bengal has the highest number of red category industries causing high pollution, followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, while 43 industrial clusters have been identified as "critically polluted", the Lok Sabha was informed today. Environment and Forest Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said during Question Hour that the Central …
To move competition watchdog against Coal India’s ‘monopolistic’ rejection of liabilities for default Frustrated by uncertainty over fuel supply despite a presidential decree, top power generation firms have adopted a confrontational approach towards Coal India and decided to complain to the competition regulator against the state-run giant’s “monopolistic” rejection of …
BARJORA, 4 APRIL: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to flag off coal production next week at a mine that supporters of her Trinamul have been opposing since 2004. The Trinamul’s opposition to the Trans-Damodar Sector coal mine forced the erstwhile Left Front government to suspend operations there. And Trinamul …
Nature serves well even when rivers run dry. Students of Government Polytechnic-Nirsa who recently unearthed four artesian wells in a rocky stretch of Dhanbad, will surely vouch for the natural source of water that promises succour as another arid summer looms. The nine final-year civil engineering (diploma) students, under the …
Dhanbad, Jan. 29: More than 2,000 people displaced by the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) marched to Maithon’s BSK College Ground, 45 km from the district headquarter, today to take part in a public meeting organised by Adivasi Mahasabha, an organisation that has been fighting for the rights of the displaced …
Ranchi, Jan. 15: A first-ever water pollution audit carried out by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pegged Jharkhand at the bottom of the performance chart with most river conservation projects lying incomplete in the state. According to the report, Performance Audit of Water Pollution in India, the Ganga, …
BURDWAN, 6 NOV: Thirty lorries, loaded with illegally-extracted sand from the Ajoy riverbed, were seized by the Durgapur SDO yesterday evening. The illegal consignment were meant to be transported to Dankuni, Rajarhat and Salt Lake. The sand, worth at least Rs 2 lakh, was being sold without required permit and …
The Supreme Court today said it would not favour interlinking of rivers if it causes huge financial burden on the Centre and asked for a report on its costs. “My concern is only on the financial liability of the project. We want to make it clear that we would not …
The coal ministry will award mining blocks to state-run NTPC for four of its upcoming projects and could also return licences that were revoked in June, putting the power plans of the company back on track. “We committed coal blocks to NTPC's four projects in Karnataka, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh,” …
KOLKATA, 23 AUG: The death toll in floods jumped to 58 today with eight more deaths being reported from four districts over the past 24-hours and flood situation in south Bengal districts remaining grim. Flood situation is likely to worsen tomorrow if the meteorological department's prediction of “heavy to very …
KOLKATA, 22 AUG: The flood situation in 15 districts of the state continued to remain grim with the death toll touching 50. Several rivers are in spate with a few flowing above the danger level in some flood-hit districts. Three flood-related deaths were reported in the past 48 hours. Government …
Power generation at Damodar Valley Corporation has increased following incessant rains in the past ten days. “The record rainfall in the catchment areas of DVC helped increase in water level at the three dams —Telaiya, Maithon and Panchet, helping generation of power from all its plants,” the General Secretary of …
Indicating hurdles in the path of achieving the 75,000 MW power capacity addition target by 2017, NTPC on Wednesday said continued shortage of coal supplies and environmental issues could force it to scale down the target by 5,000 MW. “We would be able to do about 70,000 MW by 2017, …
Torrential rain over the last few days due to an intense depression over the Bay of Bengal has rendered almost 2 lakh people homeless in East Midnapore in West Bengal. Sabong and Daspur regions in West Midnapore have also been critically affected. State irrigation minister Manas Bhunia and Union minister …
At least five persons have died and nearly 275,000 have been affected since heavy rain caused severe inundation in vast areas of Paschim Medinipur district in West Bengal over the past few days. The deep depression that had made a landfall in West Bengal last week moved to eastern Madhya …
Compelled by the incessant downpour in the Jharkhand catchment areas, the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) would discharge water at the rate of 50,000 cusec from its Maithon reservoir by early tomorrow.
The coal ministry on Thursday issued orders to revoke mining licences of five blocks of NTPC, Damodar Valley Corp and Jharkhand State Electricity Board with combined reserves of 1,000 million tonnes. The power ministry would take up the issue with coal ministry and higher authorities, a senior official said. Three …
Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) today slapped cases against three coal washeries belonging to BCCL and SAIL for ignoring earlier notices and continuing to discharge effluents in the Damodar river. The cases were filed against deputy general manager of Chasnala coal washery of Steel Authority of India Limited and …
