In order to use tenanted land for setting up of projects for community or public purpose, the Goa government has introduced the Goa Land Use (Regulation) Bill, 2024 seeking amendment to Section 3 of Goa Land Use (Regulation) Act, 1991 so as to specify in the Right to Fair Compensation …
A group of persons from families displaced due to the shelved mega steel project of Tata Steel in Ganjam district of Odisha demonstrated in front of the project office of the company at Mandiapalli on the outskirts of Berhampur on Tuesday. The agitators, who were mostly from Sindhigaon village, locked …
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015 was promulgated on April 3, 2015. The Ordinance amends the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The Act regulates the acquisition of land for public purposes, …
Even as the opposition to the Land Acquisition Bill continues in different quarters, the NDA government is determined to bring to Parliament its amended Bill through a fresh Ordinance. The amended NDA Bill to replace the new Ordinance will come to the Lok Sabha first, a Minister said on Wednesday. …
On Monday evening with the commissioning of our maiden hydel power project at Himachal Pradesh NTPC has crossed the 44,000 MW mark of power production, by today evening its one more unit is going to be functional. It was informed by the General Manager of North Karanpura Super Thermal Power …
Corp chairman to visit today, HP to get 366.48 million unit power each yr After being plagued by cost overrun and a delay of about five years, the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is set to commission the 800-MW Kol Dam, its first hydropower project, on the Sutlej river in …
The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board and city’s municipal corporations have been asked to rehabilitate people living in slum clusters located near railway tracks in the national capital within next six months. The direction issued by the National Green Tribunal expressed concern over the “inaction” on the part of all …
‘Nobody in the seven villages received relief and rehabilitation settlements’. Details of the rights of tribals living in the submergence area of the Polavaram Project, as enunciated by the Forest Rights Act, are not even documented, before which the tribals are being displaced, said a fact finding report by a …
Debate in Lok Sabha on Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015, 09/03/2015.
The voracious Brahmaputra has rendered homeless as many as 36,981 families by eroding their lands and houses across Assam in the past five years, the State Assembly was informed today. In his written reply to a query in the House, Assam Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Bhumidhar Barman said that …
This document focuses on the basics of disaster risk reduction (DRR) finance and the opportunities that the Post-2015 development finance landscape can offer. In the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction – the successor to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) – it is imperative that the discussion on financing …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Ramdas Janardan Koli Vs Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests dated 27/02/2015 regarding loss of livelihood by traditional fishermen, who are residents of villages, known as “Hanuman Koliwada, Uran Koliwada, Gavhan Koliwada, and BelpadaKoliwada” situated in …
Want land back from JP company *Threaten jail bharo andolan on February 26 Thousands of tribals, including project-affected people, workers and farmers from Kinnaur district, today gave a clarion call to get back the land that has allegedly been acquired illegally by the JP company. Farmers, workers and leaders, cutting …
SURKHET, Feb 24: The government has approved Rs 600 million through the offices concerned for rehabilitation and reconstruction of the physical infrastructures damaged by the flood and landslide in August, 2014. Around Rs 6 billion including public and private property was damaged in the flood and landslide last year. The …
This controversial Land Acquisition Bill has been introduced in the Lok Sabha on 24 Feb, 2015 amidst opposition and protests. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on February 24, 2015. The Bill amends the …
Encroachment, pollution contribute to steady degradation of the water body The slow implementation of Centrally-sponsored conservation projects, which were designed to lease fresh life to the Dal Lake, is contributing to the steady degradation of the picturesque water body. None of three key projects framed over the past decade to …
However, they do not have a veto Surajbai, 80, hailing from Barkutta village, “repents” giving birth to four girls. Owner of six acres near the Kusmunda opencast coal mine, Surajbai has five children. Her son, Kumhar Singh, suffering from a deleterious mental illness, is bed-ridden and could not be employed …
The central government has come to the aid of River Sal—once the lifeline of Salcete—which now suffers from high levels of contamination. Union minister for surface transport and river navigation Nitin Gadkari and Union minister for environment Prakash Javdekar have promised to provide central aid for dredging the river course …
United under the banner of ‘Koraputia Jana Suakshya Sangh (KJSS)’, tribals held a demonstration at Semiliguda in Koraput district on Wednesday to protest against alleged infringement of their land rights. Environmental and social activists alleged that through the ordinance, the Central Government had attempted to dilute the Right to Fair …
