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 …
The long-running Hazelwood coalmine fire has been described as ''an accident waiting for a time to happen'' in a hard-hitting submission from Environment Victoria to the Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry that criticises the level of rehabilitation works at the mine. The submission recommends that mine operator GDF SUEZ should be …
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has lost four-month time favorable for executing the projects aimed at rehabilitation of road infrastructure and water channels hit by last year’s flash floods in Chitral valley. A consultant engineer associated with one of the public works departments, requesting anonymity, told Dawn that with the start …
The National Policy on Occupational Safety and Health developed by the Ministry of Labor and Labor Relations in collaboration with all key stakeholders has received the approval from the cabinet of ministers. The policy aims to establish a national occupational safety and health system and programs in collaboration with key …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Antarsingh Patel & Anr. Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 08/05/2014 regarding Maheshwar 400 MW Hydro 3 Power Project constructed over Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh. The Tribunal has directed the Project Proponent to furnish …
The amount is required to reconstruct a total of 11 lakh slum households in the city as per latest Census figureS. Mumbai will need Rs 55,000 crore if it has to target each and every slum over the next ten years under the central government’s flagship slum-free cities scheme Rajiv …
यात्रा शुरू होने के साथ और गरमा गया है मसला उत्तराखंड में लोकसभा की पांच सीटों को अपने पक्ष में करने के लिए बीजेपी और कांग्रेस के नेता तूफानी दौरा कर रहे हैं। यहां 4 सीटों पर आपदा राहत बड़ा मुद्दा है। यह मुद्दा किसी के लिए आफत ला सकता …
Broadly, there are two sectors involved in this study – coal and electricity. The demand of coal-bearing states is that part of the revenues accruing from electricity consumed in other states should rightfully be theirs, since it is generated using their coal and imposes costs on their natural and human …
The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has virtually abandoned hundreds of families who had voluntarily offered to relinquish their ancestral land situated inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) to make place for wildlife, dealing a blow to the rare conservation mindset shown by the people. Even as the …
Nearly four months have passed since the new Land Acquisition Act came into force, but development projects continue to be stalled since the government has failed to notify the rules to implement the law. Industry chambers such as the CII and Ficci are now looking forward to the next government …
The fund-starved Haryana Wildlife Department is finding it hard to accommodate more elephants, apart from the existing two, in Ban Santour Elephant Rehabilitation Center (ERC), located in Kalesar Wildlife Sanctuary in Yamunanagar district. The Chief Wildlife Warden (CWW) has expressed inability to accommodate four more elephants, whom the central zoo …
Nodal agency concerned about flooding due to changing the course of Ulwe River The City and Industrial Development Corporation has crossed another hurdle on its ambitious project – the Rs.15,000 cr Navi Mumbai International Airport. In a recent meeting between top Cidco officials and villagers, who were opposing the relief …
Members of Pong Dam Oustees Multipurpose Cooperative Samiti staged a token protest dharna on the premises of the Deputy Commissioner (Relief and Rehabilitation) office at Raja Ka Talab near here yesterday. Samiti president Ram Kumar Sharma said the dharna had been held to protest against the apathy and failure of …
Announcing a special package for mining-affected components, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar stated that he has made a provision of Rs 150 crore to rehabilitate mining affected people and assured that the amount would be increased to Rs 600 crore if the Narendra Modi-led BJP government comes to power at the …
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Monday passed a judgment in favour of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India by ordering the release of the captive elephant, Sunder. The high court directed the state to implement the order, dated August 21, 2012, passed by the joint …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Jahangeer Ali Vs Union of India & Others dated 04/04/2014 regarding cutting of trees in the cutting of trees in the Reserved Forest area, District Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh and also the relocation and rehabilitation of villagers …
The threat of landslides is looming large over a dozen houses at Sunirgund Malangpora in the Awantipora area of Pulwama district as the Karewa land (elevated table land) in their village has been sliding after heavy snowfall and rain from the last few months. Villagers said even though they had …
Participating in the ongoing parliamentary elections is the last thing on their mind. Evicted from their land and facing continued hostility from the village panchayat, hundreds of Sikh families living in Kupian Palt, near Pehowa, in Haryana’s Kurukshetra district have decided to boycott the election on April 10. It has …
Elections come and go. But the situation of the flood affected people who have lost their land and properties to the yearly floods of the state remain unchanged. As per a latest estimate by the Water Resource Department of the state, a total of 4.25 lakh people have been living …
The Centre for Dalit Studies (CDS) released an eight-page ‘Dalit and Adivasi Agenda’, a manifesto containing demands from people across 22 different areas, to be circulated among all political parties fielding candidates in the coming elections.
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Safai Karamchari Andolan & Ors Versus Union of India & Ors dated 27/03/2014 regarding manual scavenging. The writ petition was filed by the petitioners as a Public Interest Litigation under Article 32 of the Constitution of India praying for …
