AG: Public Trust Doctrine For Gas Creates Confusion New Delhi: While seeking to overcome the ‘auction for all natural resources’ law laid down by the 2G judgment, the Centre wants clarification of an important conclusion in the Reliance judgment. The Supreme Court in 2010 had ruled in favour of Mukesh …
400,000 MAY BE DISPLACED The environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the project says 276 villages will be affected; an estimated 177,275 people live in these villages. The Polavaram Project Environmental Impact Appraisal Report of 1985 expected 150,697 people to be displaced in 226 villages. But the population of these villages …
The Krishna district administration has taken several measures and launched the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in all the villages in 49 mandals on Tuesday. Estimations have been prepared for the works at an estimated cost of Rs 437 crore to benefit 3.44 lakh families. As per the guidelines …
All the works including civil, pressure mines (laying underground pipelines) and electro-mechanical works of Indirasagar Lift Irrigation Scheme (ILIS) are going on a war-footing with an aim to start the trial run by 2008-end. ILIS would lift 16.5 tmc feet water from Godavari river at Rudramkota under Velierpad mandal to …
Stating that the recent unseasonal heavy rains were so rare that they occurred only the third time in the last 100 years, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy announced a "special package' to liberally assist farmers whose crops were damaged in 11 districts of the State. The cash compensation allowed on …
Tenders of one and four package of Dummugudem-Nagarjunasagar Project tail pond link canal, the first of its kind in the country in river linkage of Godavari and Krishna rivers, would be put online for e-procurement on February 27. The first package is an approach canal from zero to 6.5 km …
