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 government today said 12 coal mining projects, entailing an investment of Rs 1,347 crore, has been identified for speedy clearances within a month. "Twelve coal mining projects with an annual coal production of 36.9 million tonnes...have been identified for expeditious clearance within a month," Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth said …
Following is the text of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh's address at the CII National Conference and Annual General Meeting, in New Delhi on Wednesday: "I am delighted to be here today to inaugurate the CII annual meeting for 2013. I have always believed that both government and business …
Putting an end to the face-off between the National Highways Authority of India and Ministry of Environment & Forests, the latter has delinked environmental and forest clearances in case of all linear projects like roads, transmission lines, rail tracks. The Supreme Court's Forest Bench last week allowed the MoEF to …
New Delhi: Projects worth over Rs 7 lakh crore — which is equivalent to almost half the government spending in the current financial year — are held up in the absence of environmental and forest clearances, land and fuel, putting strain on the creaky infrastructure in the country and becoming …
Work could soon begin in a clutch of stranded highway projects with likely combined investments of over R20,000 crore, as the Union environment ministry is set to give them approvals in one go. The ministry’s blanket approval is enabled by its decision to de-link the environment and forest clearances (EC …
Yet to achieve financial closure for project because of pending draft agreement The West Bengal government has upped the ante against JSW Steel and charged it with delaying the Salboni steel and power project. At Rs 35,000 crore, the investment for the project is the largest in the state. Questioning …
In a move that could give a fillip to India's unconventional gas production, the ministry of environment and forests has given the phase-III clearance for Essar Oil's Raniganj block in West Bengal. The company will now be able to drill up to 650 wells, compared with the current 135. The …
This data sheet has Year-wise and State Wise Details of Approvals Granted for Diversion of Forest Land under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980. It covers all states and Union territories (UTs) - Andaman & Nicobar, Andhra Pradesh, Goa,, West Bengal, etc.
Details of Proposals Seeking Prior Approval of Central Government Under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 for Diversion of Forest Land Pending Before the Government of India, Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No 1124, dated 04.03.2013.
Year-wise and State Wise Details of Approvals Granted for Diversion of Forest Land under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No 1124, dated 04.03.2013.
The company's order for forest clearance to transport around 1.6 lakh tonnes of bauxite mined from Kolhapur district The National Green Tribunal has dismissed Hindalco's plea challenging the Maharashtra government's refusal to grant it three more months, after expiry of its forest clearance, to transport around 1.6 lakh tonnes of …
PANJIM: The Union Ministry of Mines dropped a bombshell Friday, by shooting a copy of the letter addressed to Orissa government to all State governments which says that basic Central government permissions were needed before renewal of mining leases and permissions from the Indian Bureau of Mines and assessment of …
BHUBANESWAR: Under the microscope for allegedly engaging in illegalities, several mine owners on Wednesday raised objections before the Justice M B Shah Commission to the manner in which boundaries of mines were determined using satellite images. Various miners, represented by prominent lawyers, strongly pleaded before the inquiry commission for a …
The 555-km Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad project from which the developer GMR Infrastructure pulled out in early January citing huge delays in clearances, has now got all requisite approvals from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). According to sources, with Gujarat, one of the two states through which the highway passes, also …
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) on Wednesday cleared six coal mining projects of the 40 that were on the table for discussion. Projects that were not cleared have been slotted for urgent review and the CCI will consider them once the process is complete. The key issue …
Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti (NSS), an outfit of tribals agitating against the alumina refinery of Vedanta Aluminium (VAL) at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, on Tuesday sought Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s intervention to overturn the Odisha government’s plan to allocate alternate sources of bauxite to the project, which is reeling under acute …
In a bid to curb manipulations and expedite cases, the state forest department is gearing up to accept proposals online for forest land diversion under the Forest Conservation Act (FCA) 1980. State nodal officer & additional principal chief conservator of forests (APCCF) Suresh Gairola did not respond to the calls …
New NHAI guidelines delay work on road projects New National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) guidelines making forest clearance and acquisition of minimum quantum of land mandatory before inviting bids is delaying road projects to be executed in the public-private partnership mode. As per the guidelines, a project will be …
Hyderabad: The nearly Rs 4,000-crore phase-I of the Godavari drinking water project for Greater Hyderabad is about to overcome a major environmental hurdle with the state government giving a green signal to the Water Board to take over 28 acres of forest land in Ranga Reddy district for construction of …
Days ahead of the first meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Investment ( CCI), the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC), the statutory body for advising on forest clearances, rushed to clear a little over 20 projects, including those in mining and power. The CCI, set up to hasten big-ticket infrastructure projects, …