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 Union Cabinet will on Thursday take up the proposal to set up the National Investment Board (NIB), a body mooted by the finance ministry to fast track project clearances and ensure their timely implementation. The Cabinet will also consider the new investment policy for urea. The NIB will be …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has been pulled up by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for "casually" granting environmental clearance for a mining project in reserved forest area in Goa without verifying the information. The NGT bench of Justice V R Kingaonkar and expert member D K …
The Centre has given “environment clearance” for the Rs 5,813-crore 2x600MW North Chennai Thermal Power Project stage-II treating it as a “special case”. “As soon as we came to know, in one day we have given permission. Though there were technical issues, I have treated it as a special case,” …
A direct road to Parambikulam through Kerala is unlikely to get the necessary clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests owing to the opposition from the environmentalists in Tamil Nadu, who fear that it will adversely affect the water resources in the catchment area of the Parambikulam-Aliyar river …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on Government of Odisha relates to matters arising from Performance Audit of selected programmes and activities and Compliance Audit of Government departments and Autonomous Bodies. The primary purpose of the Report is to bring to the notice of the …
CORTALIM: The casual attitude of the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) towards the public consultation process of EC clearance for the Mormugao Port expansion project came in for severe criticism from a member of the Goa Environment Protection Council (GEPC). 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">GEPC …
After imposing penalty of about Rs 75,000 crore against 104 mining companies for excess production of ore, Odisha government has identified 111 mines violating environment laws, official sources said. "The state government has directed the collectors of districts concerned to initiate action against the defaulting mining companies as per the …
With the MB Shah Commission probing the alleged Rs 76,000 crore mining scam in Orissa, the state forest department has now asked the steel and mines department to ensure that mining leases operate only with all statutory clearances including payment of Net Present Value (NPV) and forest clearance under Forest …
Nearly 220 project proposals for construction within the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR), a vast majority of them being residential, are pending for want of environmental clearance from the state environment panel. However, the number of such proposals stuck has drastically come down from almost 350 about five months ago after …
As reported by the Central Pollution Control Board, two of the twelve major integrated Iron and Steel Plants were found to be non-compliant. Directions under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 were issued to Bokaro Steel Plant, Bokaro and Directions under Section 18 (1) (b) of the Air …
The State-wise details of project proposals pending for environment and forest clearance in the Ministry are at Annexure-1 and 2 respectively. The reasons for pendency of environment clearances include non submission of requisite information by the project proponents, forestry and wildlife issues, etc. The reasons for pendency of forest clearances …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has cleared Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited’s Kochi refinery expansion, paving the way for the facility here to become the largest public sector refinery in the country. Completion of the Integrated Refinery Expansion Project will take the capacity of the refinery to 15.5 million …
Construction of six Hydro Electric Power Projects (HEPs) is held up due to absence of Environment clearance by Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF). The State-wise details of such HEPs are given in Annex. MoEF accords Environment clearance to Power Projects as per defined procedures laid down through various Notifications …
Identified blocks don’t have the required green clearances which might alter valuations and put off potential bidders The flopped sale of airwaves has made the government worry that the auction of coal mines may be another fiasco as none of the blocks identified for sale have the required green clearances, …
The Prime Minister’s Office has given its go-ahead to the finance ministry’s proposal to set up a National Investment Board (NIB), asking it to rework the cabinet note and bring it for formal approval soon. It has also separately directed the environment ministry to immediately issue orders saying fresh environment …
The State Government has urged the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) to place minerals enlisted in List-1 of Minor Minerals Rules under B-2 category. The Government has explained that this initiative will help get the required clearances soon and will facilitate sanction at the earliest. It may be noted …
Will be valid for a period of five years The State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) has granted environment clearance for 11 more sand quarries in the Cauvery-Coleroon river basin. A few days ago, the SEIAA had granted clearance for 10 new sand quarries in Tiruchi, Karur, Ariyalur, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur …
KOLKATA, 8 NOV: The state government is contemplating sending a joint delegation with representatives from leading business chambers to Delhi to press the Centre to lift the embargo on environmental clearances for new industries in the state. Emerging out of a nearly two-hour meeting of the state's industrial core committee …
The Centre on Wednesday maintained in the Supreme Court that for establishment of a desalination plant for Units 1 and 2 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, no fresh environmental clearance was required. Additional Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran made this submission before a Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak …
The proposed National Investment Board (NIB) is to be reworked by the finance ministry, and it could be remodeled along the lines of cabinet committee on infrastructure. Initially, NIB was conceptualized as a powerful agency — to be run out of the finance ministry — with over-arching powers to exercise …
