Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Abhishek Panwar Vs Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board & Others dated 20/05/2025. The miscellaneous application was registered on the basis of the report of the joint committee dated July 20, 2024 filed by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) …
Compensation for land acquired, two toll plazas and maintenance of roads to be discussed on Dec 16 Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T R Baalu inaugurated the four-lane Chandigarh-Ambala highway on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, he assured the ministers from Punjab and Haryana that all the …
Announced compensation is meagre: Federation TIRUVARUR: Farmers in the Cauvery Delta region of Tiruvarur district have urged the Government to give a compensation of Rs.15,000 per acre for the samba and thaladi paddy crops that were damaged in the recent heavy rains instead of Rs.3,000 per acre (Rs.7,500 per hectare) …
Ahmedabad: The farmers of Khoda village in Sanand taluka on Wednesday moved Gujarat High Court seeking direction to the state government that it should give compensation towards market value of their land sold to Tata Motors for the upcoming Nano project. A division bench of Justice MS Shah and Justice …
Expressing resentment over acquisition of agriculture land by the government for developing an industrial sector adjacent to the GT road, farmers of Jatheri, Badkhalsa, Badmalik, Liwan, Rai and Peetampura have decided to move court as well as to launch an agitation against the acquisition move of the government. The decision …
There is clearly an institutionalized attitude of neglect towards the displaced people. For example no record of the number of people displaced is maintained. Such attitudes prevent the bureaucratic mindset from understanding the enormity of what is involved when tribal people, stripped of their land, are forcibly dumped to unlivable …
In the era of liberalization and privatization, a sizeable number of mineral processing industries are coming to invest in the mineral rich state of Orissa. As a result, there is large involuntary population displacement of the marginalized sections including tribal. There is resistance leading to agitation by 'already' and 'potential' …
On 2 January 2006, the police in Kalinganagar, Orissa opened fire against a group of tribal people protesting against Tatas constructing a steel plant on their lands and not paying them adequate compensation. This tragedy killing 12 persons on the spot shocked the whole nation. But even in this tragic …
In the recent past, two major policy interventions have been made to resettle and rehabilitate persons displaced as a result of acquisition of land for development projects. While the government of Orissa brought out its policy in 2006, the Central Government notified a new policy in 2007. Both policies suffer …
Displacement of the people from their habitation, in order to acquire land for development projects, is a major cause of concern today. The displaced persons face several difficulties in adjusting their lives to a completely new environment. The paper deals with the rehabilitation and resettlement of the displaced persons due …
This resettlement plan is prepared to deal with impacts of land acquisition and resettlement issues resulting from the rehabilitation of the road sub-project. The plan provides an analysis of the impacts, identifies the nature and types of losses, and establishes and entitlement matrix as a guide to payments for compensation …
Crippled by the Nano row, families in resort to desperate measures----- Going into class VIII, Srabanti Patra, as always, figured W, jH among the top ten students ^I^P in class. When the year started, she approached her father, Prabir, for the admission fee of Rs 270. Prabir, 40, went speechless …
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum on Thursday directed Silverline Industries, manufacturers of a solar water heater, to repair a heater. They will, otherwise, be liable to pay Rs 10,000 as compensation. The complainant, Kailash Sharma, had placed an order for a heater with Silverline Industries in 2003. He paid …
The two-decade-old land controversy involving a project of the Central Coalfield Limited (CCL) in Giridih has reared its head again. Seventy families, who had given their land before 1980, have launched a fresh agitation against the company in demand for a better compensation package. They began a blockade at Kabribad
The Manimajra Farmers Welfare and Environment Protection Society in an executive body meeting held on Thursday expressed resentment on the shifting stands of the UT Administration in implementation of the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy 2007 (NRRP). They stated that the Chandigarh Administration is grabbing farmland of small and marginal …
H D Kote: Deputy Conservator of Forests Shaswathi Mishra has promised to prevail upon the state government to disburse a compensation of Rs 1.5 lakh to the family of a forest watcher who was trampled to death by wild elephants near Yerekattemala Forest area of H D Kote Taluk last …
UP farmers demand payment, power sugarcane farmers of Uttar Pradesh have been on a sit-in protest at the Baraut block office in Baghpat district since September 5. Led by the Bhartiya Kisan Union, they are demanding payment of arrears by sugar mills for the last season (2007-08) and a higher …
DIBRUGARH, Nov 12: The Larua Janata Solar Fencing Protection Committee (LJSFPC) has urged upon the district administration to pay compensation to the farmers of Larua Kolakhowa area under Barbarua development block affected by elephant depredation. Elephants have been creating havoc at several villages, namely Bordoibaam, Majgaon, Do-kolakhowa, Baam Kolakhowa, Itakhuli, …
Throughout Sweet Land of Mine, the destructive role of the MoEF is reprised. This ministry has aided and abetted the overturning of every single piece of legislation designed to protect ecological systems and the communities of Goa. It has done so consistently from the mid-1980s when the Portuguese mining
