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 …
Expressing dissatisfaction over all the provincial and federal governments’ reports about the implementation of Flood Commission’s (FC) recommendations in letter and spirit, the Supreme Court asked them to file reply over the objections raised by the petitioner about the non-implementation of FC’s report. A three-member bench of the apex court, …
US ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson on Tuesday said his government would initially provide $25 million for Tarbela Dam Fourth Extension Hydropower Project. He said this during a visit to the dam, where he inaugurated the new 128MW power project in the presence of Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) …
A large group of people living in villages deep inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary are set for an occupy stir which will see them forcefully occupy bungalows, buildings and revenue land under the forest department in the district in protest against government delay in implementing the relocation package promised to …
The Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment present this Thirty-second Report of the Committee on “The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2012” pertaining to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. The Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on 3.9.2012 and was referred to …
The Union budget presented in Parliament on Thursday has provided an allocation of Rs. 150 crore for a neighbourhood development project at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, where a 2000 MW nuclear power plant is coming up. The provision follows the Tamil Nadu government’s announcement of a Rs. 500 crore development …
The objective of this work is to draw attention to the impact of climate change on internal displacement as an important factor affecting the security of millions of inhabitants of our planet. Relevant considerations have been preceded by an analysis of the most important causes of internal displacement. In the …
Administration argues pulling down their huts will ensure ‘safety of wildlife’ A day after the Union government announced a Rs.100-crore grant for Chukutiya Bhunjia of Orissa, a primitive tribe which lives on the eastern border of Chhattisgarh, 30 huts of the Baigas, another primitive tribe, were razed to the ground …
However, balance in growth needs, environmental concerns while undertaking such steps should be ensured Delays in environment clearances needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis for achieving coal production target of 795 MT during the current five year plan (2012-17), the Economic Survey said today. "Problems like delays in …
New Delhi: The UPA government is likely to reintroduce the Land Acquisition Bill with a mammoth 157 amendments in the budget session of Parliament. The 26 ‘substantive’ measures the government plans to push through include a provision that in case of acquisition for urbanization purposes, 20% of the developed land …
Mothers of endosulfan victims and other protesters blocked the National Highway near the new bus station here on Monday, intensifying an agitation demanding the implementation of a rehabilitation package for those affected by the pesticide. Activists continued their fast that started on February 18, and the health of Subhash Cheemeni …
Gujarat government has spent about Rs 796 crores for constructing 17,148 houses in Ahmedabad city for the rehabilitation of slum dwellers. Revenue, urban development and housing minister Anandiben Patel while replying to a query from Dariapur MLA GyasuddinShaikh told the state assembly that the cost of houses constructed had shot …
With mothers of endosulfan-affected people joining a fast here on Monday, the protest demanding the quick implementation of a rehabilitation package for the victims is expected to intensify. The agitators plan to block the National Highway. As the fast entered the seventh day on Sunday, two activists became critically ill. …
The Centre has raised several objections in the Supreme Court against Haryana’s plan to construct the Gurgaon-Manesar urban complex (GMUC) for a projected population of 37 lakhs in 2021, contending that the state’s proposal was in violation of the blueprint prepared by the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) for …
The second phase of the indefinite hunger strike launched in Kasaragod seeking comprehensive rehabilitation package for hundreds of Endosulfan victims in the district entered the third day on Wednesday. Subhash Cheemeni and P. Krishnan, ‘Endosulfan Peedhitha Janakeeya Munnani’ activists, are on indefinite hunger strike from February 18. Veteran journalist B. …
Kochi: Steps have been taken to provide compensation to endosulfan victims as recommended by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the state government has informed the high court. The government’s submission was in response to a November 28, 2012, directive of the high court. The state said in an affidavit …
The R&R; Plans have been prepared and approved by CEC for 51 mining leases comprising of 28 Category A and 23 Category B mining leases The ore-starved steel mills in Karnataka have some sweet news to cheer as the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC), has recommended the resumption of …
“Steel and allied industries facing shortage of iron ore” Taking into account the acute shortage of iron ore, the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has recommended to the Supreme Court to consider permitting resumption of operations in all “Category-A” mining leases in Karnataka where mining has been suspended. The CEC also …
Iron ore mining is set to resume on a full scale in Karnataka with the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) recommending that all lessees under A and B categories be permitted to restart mining operations. The panel, in its recommendations to the apex court, has said that all the …
As primitive tribes continue to be in a state of acute poverty, ‘schedule area’ status for settlements of evicted tribals from Nagarahole National Park will favour their development. The status will also solve the problem of representation of tribals in political institutions, which will help them benefit from the welfare …
PANJIM: While admitting that a financial package is not a ‘permanent’ solution for rehabilitating mining affected people, Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday turned its guns on the Prime Minister, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Minister of Environment and Forests, in renewed inter party mug slinging on the mining suspension …
