Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Balwinder Kaur Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 19/03/2024. Balwinder Kaur, the applicant raised the grievance of risk of thousands of trees felling due to likelihood of land sliding. It was said that illegal mining is being carried out …
Nagpur: The Maharashtra government on Wednesday informed the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court that they have to recover Rs 164 crore from National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and Rs44 crore from National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) for repairing the roads around Koradi that were damaged due to movement …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Swapan Kumar Halder Vs West Bengal Pollution Control Board & Ors dated 04/03/2015 regarding air and noise pollution by a road construction company by the operation of their mixing maching for manufacturing of bitumen coated stone …
The Vice President and Minister of Women's Affairs, Isatou Njie-Saidy, Saturday commissioned the Kombo Coastal Roads as part of activities commemorating The Gambia's Golden Jubilee independence anniversary. The ceremony was held at the Brusubi Turn-table Junction. The contractor of the project was Compagnie Sahelienne Entreprise (CSE), supervised by the United …
The cabinet on Monday approved a proposal for realising Tk .03 additional tariff from consumers for per unit electricity from the coal-based power plants to raise a ‘social development fund’ for the coal-based power project area. The power division placed a draft of the proposal for creating the social development …
A HUGE infrastructure project kicked off in China's northwest province of Gansu, which will facilitate trade and people exchanges between China and central Asia. Though the province does not share its borders with any central Asian countries, it will be an important stretch of the Silk Road Economic Belt. The …
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday scrapped the project envisaging an elevated expressway from Gulberg to Motorway-II after the Punjab government failed to justify the urgency being shown in acquiring people’s properties for it. Allowing hundreds of petitions filed against the project, a full bench also set aside all …
The order by principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at Delhi to stay felling of trees for linear projects in the country even if they were granted Stage I clearance has forced the state government to put minutes of Pune meeting approving NH7 road widening on hold. City-based wildlife …
The National Green Tribunal has taken a serious view of the environment ministry's decision to allow developers of linear projects such as roads and transmission lines to fell trees in forest areas once the ministry gives an in-principle approval and before the final forest clearance is awarded. A tribunal bench …
Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry has accepted the proposals given by the Chhattisgarh Government and sanctioned Rs305.56 crore for projects related to construction of 10 bridges and roads, officials said on Wednesday. Officials said that Chief Minister Raman Singh had requested the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways …
For the much-awaited 34-km coastal road linking Cuffe Parade and Marve to become a reality, the Maharashtra government will have to promise the Centre that it would retain its sanctity by not pushing the high tide line further in to bring the proposed road under the state's development plan (DP). …
BJP promises to transform Delhi into a world class city, focussing on roads and transport and the environment. Click here for the party’s vision document released just four days before Delhi elections. Four days before elections in Delhi, the BJP released its vision document 2015 for Delhi, with big focus …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) here has conditionally approved the felling of 1,189 trees on either side of state highway no. 55 between Shikrapur and Chakan to enable widening the highway to four lanes by the state public works department (PWD). The stretch links the Pune-Ahmednagar and Pune-Nashik highways. In …
Oil and gas access roads in western Amazon could open up ‘Pandora’s box’ of environmental impacts Oil and gas roads are encroaching deeper into the western Amazon, one of the world’s last wildernesses and biodiversity hotspots, according to a new study. Roads across Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and western Brazil …
Billion-dollar investments in basic transport and electricity in developing nations are among the best ways to curb hunger by 2030 since a quarter of all food is now wasted after harvest, according to a report issued on Thursday. A total of $239 billion invested over the next 15 years, in …
The western Amazon is one of the world's last high-biodiversity wilderness areas, characterized by extraordinary species richness and large tracts of roadless humid tropical forest. It is also home to an active hydrocarbon (oil and gas) sector, characterized by operations in extremely remote areas that require new access routes. Here, …
Over 50 public utility projects including power, irrigation, Railways and roads were today cleared by a high-powered Environment Ministry committee. Power projects in Tamil Nadu and Telangana were among the 53 public utility projects cleared by Standing Committee of National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) chaired by Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar. …
The likelihood of having a coastal road in Mumbai after the Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar expressed his willingness to positively consider it has cast a cloud of uncertainty on another city project, on which a state corporation has already spent more than Rs 3.5 crore just in planning. Although …
More than 4000 people lost their lives in road accidents during last year in Haryana, where nearly 1,200 accidents prone sites have been identified by the State Government. As the Haryana Government initiated its road safety week starting January 11, the status report on road safety in the state presents …
The Centre is considering the possibility of modifying coastal regulation zone (CRZ) norms to permit reclamation of land along the city’s coastline for crucial road projects. Indications of this likely policy change came during a meeting between Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Delhi …
