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 …
Under fire from the Ministry of Mines for the inordinate delay in clearing applications for renewal of mining lease, the State Government on Monday reportedly told the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) that it had expedited mining lease renewal activities. The CEC team headed by its member-secretary MK Jiwrajka …
Sending a stern message that it will not take lapses in environmental issues lightly, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has, for the first time, sought action against a senior bureaucrat. The NGT is an independent judicial authority on environment al issues. Stating that the action of the then secretary of …
Steel minister Beni Prasad Verma has cautioned environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan against delaying green clearances for SAIL’s iron ore mines in Orissa and Jharkhand. Delays have led to the discontinuation of mining in the predominantly tribal areas, said Verma, cautioning this could trigger law and order problems and stoke naxal …
In what is an indication of the lack of big projects being initiated in the city, the three-year tenure of the two regulatory bodies that were constituted to check environmental degradation have ended without the bodies according approval to any project. However, the whole blame does not lie with the …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allow approval of mining projects in Punjab, saying the alarming scarcity of construction material could lead to a law and order problem in the state. In a letter to the Prime Minister, the Chief …
Mining companies in Goa have violated rules and regulation in their operations and extraction of ores by them should not be permitted till environment impact assessment is done, a Central Empowered Committee told the Supreme Court today. The apex court-appointed Committee in its report recommended that resumption of mining operations, …
The Union Ministry for Environment on Thursday filed a reply to the questions posed by a division bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court pertaining to surface mining and how many inches and feet one could excavate the earth. The court had also sought a reply on how mines …
The CEC set up the Supreme Court submitted this interim report on its investigation into illegal mining by various entities in Goa. It includes details about the loss to the environment and the economy by way of illegal mining. Report (interim) of the CEC in writ petition (civil) no. 435 …
The Cabinet is likely to decide on setting up a National Investment Board ( NIB) at a meeting scheduled tomorrow. The panel of senior ministers could also take up the proposals on a new investment policy for urea and continuation of additional compensation to indigenous manufacturers of potash and phosphorus, …
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 …
