Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has assured the Coal Ministry that it would examine the issue of whether in-principle environment and forest clearances can be granted to coal blocks that are to be put up for auction. Senior officials of coal ministry today met top officials of Environment …
Office Memorandum of guidelines for granting environment clearance for expansion of coal mining projects involving one time production capacity expansion of up to 25% in the existing operation
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar today said the information provided by Central Empowered Committee (CEC) on mining to the Supreme Court was "questionable." "The interpretation of CEC (about Goa's mining issue) was questionable. Mining in Goa is not new, you have to understand it from the context of full history," …
PANJIM: The contentious cessation of mining operations in Goa will figure at the National Development Council (NDC) meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on December 27, wherein Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar would bat for an early decision on environment clearances (ECs) to mining leases, currently suspended …
The environment ministry has simplified the procedures for granting clearances to special economic zones as it seeks to shed the anti-industry image. A recent order issued by the environment ministry states that the environmental clearance process for SEZs will now follow the system laid out for National Industrial and Manufacturing …
Bitter resistance against the cancer causing asbestos based plant of West Bengal based company Utkal Asbestos Limited (UAL) and the insensitivity of the government towards the fatal threat of asbestos fibers to villagers resulted in the blockade of 12 km stretch of Mahuwa-Hazipur Road in Bihar from 6 O’ clock …
Visakhapatnam: The department of atomic energy, under the aegis of the Prime Minister, has accepted the proposal of the Nuclear Power Corpo-ration of India Limited to increase capacity of the Kovvada Nuclear Park from 6,000 MW to 9,500 MW. According to DAE’s earlier clearances, the nuclear park’s capacity was barely …
Assures environment minister that it would not undermine authority of individual ministries to say yes or no to specific proposals The cabinet gave its approval for setting up a panel of ministers to expeditiously clear big -ticket infrastructure projects after finance minister P Chidambaram assured Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan that …
After digging deep into the mining activity in Punjab, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today gave the go-ahead to the auction of mines in five districts — Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Ropar, Mohali and Nawanshahr — but not before passing strictures on the government. Visibly annoyed, the Bench admonished the government …
The newly-formed Cabinet Commitment on Investment (CCI), floated by the government to fast-track big-ticket projects, has its task cut out. Among the 198 mega central sector projects costing over R1,000 crore under implementation, nearly half, or 81, are running behind schedule. These include seven projects being executed by the railways …
Over a month after an expert appraisal committee recommended the Peddar Road flyover for coastal zone regulation (CRZ) clearance, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) is still awaiting an official clearance letter from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). This means that it will take at least another …
Giving a push to the much-delayed Pedder Road flyover, the union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has recommended the project for green clearance after being satisfied with the project proponent’s plans surrounding mitigation of noise and air pollution. The project has been stuck for over a decade for want …
Reiterating the concern that the proposed National Investment Board will have overreaching powers to the extent of even overruling the regulatory mechanism of green clearances, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan and Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh have separately written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking stringent safeguards in place before setting …
Observing that the heavy traffic brought in by the sea link is causing air and noise pollution at Worli Seaface, the National Green Tribunal, in its order released on Wednesday, asked the Delhi-based Central Road Research Institute to conduct studies and recommend a traffic plan or solution to help bring …
The Pedder Road flyover has got environmental clearance from the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), thus crossing perhaps the final hurdle on its way. Keeping in view residents' opposition to the project—proposed 15 years ago— on the grounds that it will increase air and noise pollution, the MoEF …
Minister for Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan has rejected the steel ministry's charge that her department was delaying mining clearances that could potentially lead to law and order issues in forested tribal areas. "It is somewhat unusual and new, the argument that complying with environmental and forest regulations leads to …
With the powerful mining mafia opposing mandatory environment clearance, Punjab too is dithering on its implementation. Even as scarcity of sand and gravel is brewing trouble, the state government has yet to transfer the environment clearance of 23 quarries from its mining department to lessees. While a Supreme Court order …
The Environment Impact Assessment Notification (EIA), 2006 and its amendments thereafter require all new projects or activities and / or expansion and modernization of existing projects or activities listed in the schedule to the said Notification with capacity beyond threshold limits prescribed thereunder, to obtain prior Environment Clearance under the …
Steel minister Beni Prasad Verma has cautioned environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan against holding up clearances for SAIL’s iron ore mines in Orissa and Jharkhand, saying this would force the state-owned steel giant to scale down operations and could stoke Naxal activity in the tribal region. Verma’s November 30 missive to …
