Reply affidavit filed on behalf of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in the matter of Pentapati Pullarao Vs Union of India & Others, 31/08/2021. The report said that M/s Indira Sagar (Polavaram) multipurpose project, is an irrigation project located in West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh and obtained Environmental Clearance, …
The issue of Polavaram - a multi - purpose irrigation project being set up on the Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh and spread across adjoining States - today rocked the Chhattisgarh Assembly, where the Congress members staged a walkout. The main Opposition party MLAs walked out of the House to …
‘Nobody in the seven villages received relief and rehabilitation settlements’. Details of the rights of tribals living in the submergence area of the Polavaram Project, as enunciated by the Forest Rights Act, are not even documented, before which the tribals are being displaced, said a fact finding report by a …
Government said on Wednesday that 276 villages in Andhra Pradesh, four villages in Chhattisagarh and eight villages in Odisha are likely to be submerged due to Polavaram Dam project. "276 villages in Andhra Pradesh, four villages in Chhattisgarh and eight villages in Odisha are likely to be submerged.” "An area …
Replying to a question in Lok Sabha, environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said that 276 villages in Andhra Pradesh, four in Chhattisagarh and eight in Odisha are likely to be submerged due to Polavaram project. “An area of 3427.52 hectares of forest land in Andhra Pradesh is estimated to …
BHUBANESWAR: With the Centre giving the green signal to go ahead with the controversial Polavaram project, the state assembly constituted a house committee headed by speaker Niranjan Pujari to submit a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue. Besides the Speaker, the 25-member panel will have the government …
The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Wednesday raised the issue of environmental clearance given to Polavaram project without public hearing and asked the Government to explain how the final clearance was given to the project without any survey. Raising the issue during question hour, BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab said the …
Leaders of several Adivasi (tribal) organizations and members of the Adivasi Sarpanches Organization (ASO) staged a dharna in front of the district collector’s office here and beset the road for a while on Wednesday in protest against the passage of the Polavaram Bill by Parliament to facilitate the transfer of …
Amid Parliament passing the controversial bill on Polavaram project, BJP government in Chhattisgarh is now facing a piquant situation in taking a politically correct stand on the project that would submerge vast tract of land and displace a large number of tribals in state's southern tip. "So far the state …
Khammam: Adivasis to be affected by the Polavaram irrigation project are planning a long term agitation. They have chalked out a strategy to highlight the issue at the national level by organising human chains, bandhs, rasta rokos, hunger strike and other forms of protests. They want to involve environment and …
Opposition Congress and BJP in Odisha today alleged that BJD government lacked adequate information on the controversial Polavaram project and demanded a white paper on it. "We are totally in the dark as to how the Polavaram project will affect the state. We do not exactly know how much land …
The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2014 (As passed by Lok Sabha on 18-02-2014). The bill aims to provide for the reorganisation of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh and for matters connnected therewith.
The controversial Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill that allows transfer of seven mandals from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh is just a step away from being enacted into a law with the Rajya Sabha on Monday giving its assent amid protests from TRS and Congress members from Telangana. The bill was …
Khammam: The Indirasagar-Polavaram Multi-purpose Irrigation Project took a new turn with the passing of the Bill in the Lok Sabha, which paves the way for the Polavaram project in AP by merging seven mandals in Khammam district with Seemandhra. The Centre will now have to float a company called Polavaram …
Debate in Rajya Sabha on Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2014. The Minister of Home Affairs Shri Raj Nath Singh informed Rajya Sabha that " Rajya Sabha had passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill on 20th February. The Rajya Sabha had passed the Bill without any amendments. The Bill received …
The bill was approved amid stiff opposition from TRS, BJD and some other parties A controversial bill which paves the way for the Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh by merging some villages and mandals of Telangana with Seemandhra was approved in the Lok Sabha today, amid stiff opposition from TRS, …
A bill to allow merging of some villages and mandals of Telangana with Seemandhra in a bid to deal with resettlement and rehabilitation of those displaced by the Polavaram power project was introduced in the Lok Sabha today amid a din. It the first Bill to be tabled in the …
Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtriya Samithi Karimnagar MP B. Vinod Kumar has filed two petitions against construction of the controversial Polavaram Dam. Telangana irrigation minister T. Harish Rao, told Deccan Chronicle on Tuesday: “We will not allow inclusion of the seven mandals of Khammam district in Seemandhra. We will also fight over …
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh assembly urged the Centre to take steps to complete the Polavaram project in three years and bring about a legislation replacing the ordinance to transfer to AP all villages that are expected to get submerged in the backwaters of the project. Chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu …
Hyderabad: Union Ministers P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju and M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Thursday that the Narendra Modi government had not taken any new decision regarding the Polavaram project and it was the previous UPA government’s decision that was being implemented. Speaking to the media separately in Delhi, they said …
