Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
Eighteen hospitals in Chhattisgarh, including AIIMS, have been issued show cause notice for non-compliance of rules of bio medical waste and thus causing health and environmental hazards. The notices, by the Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board, were issued after the hospitals were found violating the prescribed rules for disposal of bio-medical …
Aluminium major's initiative helps farmers to take second crop Premsai Kanwar, a small farmer in Dondro village of Korba district, had never dreamt of taking a second crop in his field. Lack of irrigation facility literally made his land barren after taking the kharif paddy crop. Kanwar was not the …
Which government department addresses injustice done to tribals in the country? Tribal rights activists from Chhattisgarh have been trying to solve this conundrum for a year now. Their efforts have resulted in a huge pile of official communication explaining one thing: no department wants to take responsibility. Lakshmi Chauhan, who …
Commercial production in the plant started in 1983 and achieving above 90% PLF at an age of 30 years was outstanding performance The Korba station of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is on a move---this time to perform outstanding in the field of environment protection. The vintage plant of …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal on environmental clearance dated 18-01-2010 granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to M/s Dheeru Powergen Pvt. Ltd for the setting up of a 3 x 350 MW coal-fired thermal power plant in Korba, Chhattisgarh
Days After Govt’s Nod To Project, National Tribunal Quashes Clearance, Calls It Illegal New Delhi: Within five days of imposing a moratorium on new industries in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district for being the fifth polluted industrial zone in the country, the environment ministry did a U-turn, having cleared a private 3x350 …
Within five days of imposing a moratorium on new industries in Chhattisgarh's Korba district for being the fifth polluted industrial zone in the country, the environment ministry did a U-turn, having cleared a private 3x350 MW thermal power plant. The move overlooks not only the freeze the ministry had imposed, …
Expansion of existing blocks was held up for environmental clearance, new blocks were either unexplored or partially explored For all the problems that plague thermal power plants across India -- coal stocks of just one week or projects struggling to come up for want of assured coal -- Coal India …
On June 4, 2008, Arvind Jain, chairman of CII Chhattisgarh, wrote a letter to the divisional forest officer, Korba, saying that since coal blocks of a few companies fell in the area of a proposed elephant reserve in the district, “the reserve should be shifted to some other location”. The …
In India the mining operations have degraded significant area of land and have replaced the ecosystem of the mined out areas with the undesirable waste materials in form of overburden dumps. The process of coal extraction drastically alters the physical and biological nature of the mined out areas, so the …
KORBA (CHHATTISGARH): An immense expanse of fine grey fly-ash stretches out to meet the distant horizon, its flat surface rippled by slow-spinning whirlwinds. Seen from the road, the National Thermal Power Corporation's (NTPC) ash pond rises up like an enormous ziggurat of expired embers, with a base nearly 1,120 acres …
This study is an analysis of the social impacts and community engagement process for an IFC-supported project in Chhattisgarh, India. It also provides an assessment of the application of IFC Performance Standard 7 (Indigenous Peoples) and related IFC standards and requirements
Joseph John Rescue workers waited with masks, stretchers and sheets for bodies as heavy earth moving equipment tried to clear debris of a giant chimney that collapsed Wednesday at the Korba power plant site of the Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO), killing at least 25 people and trapping many others. Hopes …
Five labourers died in an accident at an under-construction power plant of Korba West Power Co Limited in Raigrah district of Chhattisgarh Saturday morning. The labourers were on a 170-foot high scaffolding built around a cooling tower of the power plant when the scaffolding came crashing down. The victims were …
Facing non-supply of bauxite, Vedanta Aluminium has announced closure of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha from December 5. The company has served a formal notice to the Odisha Government. In a notice to the Labour Commissioner of the State Government, the company said, “The unit has already incurred …
Korba: While Parliament remains stalled over the CAG report on coal block allocations, a land acquisition row threatens to disrupt production at India’s largest open cast coal mine. In fact, it exposes a deeper malaise that afflicts India’s coal sector, where private companies, according to the CAG, were given coal …
7 Allocations During NDA Tenure In List. New Delhi: The government may be standing firm against scrapping coal block allotments to private companies but a high-level official panel for monitoring progress in these mines is pitching for largescale de-allocation to “defuse the current crisis” over Coalgate. “Out of the 90 …
On April 26, 2010, Chhattisgarh additional secretary (law) Ravishankar Sharma wrote to the government’s additional standing counsel in Delhi, Aniruddh P Mai: “The state government has decided to file an SLP [special leave petition] in the Supreme Court against the Bilaspur High Court’s February order [in favour of Balco in …
A Raipur court on Wednesday admitted a petition filed by Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel against Chief Minister Raman Singh for allegedly entering into a criminal conspiracy and regularising 2,780 acres of land to Balco in Korba district, most of which the company had illegally occupied over the years. Significantly, the …
Industry Power sector: Chhattisgarh is one of the few States of India where Power sector is effectively developed. Based on the current production of surplus electric power, position of the State is comfortable and profitable. The Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board (CSEB) is in a strong position to meet the electricity …
