The Annual Plan for the year 2012-13 for Chhattisgarh was finalised here on Thursday at a meeting between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister Raman Singh.

Industry Power sector: Chhattisgarh is one of the few States of India where Power sector is effectively developed.

Chhattisgarh: The Centre approves the diversion of forest land for the Tatas' proposed steel plant in Bastar.

Public hearing conducted by the concerned company prior to applying for environmental clearance is not a mere formality but a substantive requirement of law, held the National Green Tribunal.

The National Green Tribunal has cancelled the environmental clearance given to the Jindal Steel and Power Company’s coal mining and washery project in Chhattisgarh.

In a significant decision, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday set aside the Environmental Clearance (EC) granted to the 4 MTPA Coal Mining Project of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd and 4 MTPA Coal Washery at Gare in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh on grounds of faulty public hearing.

The company had been granted EC in May 2009. The NGT has directed that the public hearing may be conducted again but not under the Additional District Magistrate (ADM) who conducted it earlier. The verdict delivered by Justice C.V Ramulu and Prof R. Nagendran held that the entire “public hearing was a farce and makes a mockery of the public hearing process”.

New Delhi: A Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on commercial mining of coal blocks in Chhattisgarh has put the main opposition BJP on the defensive, with Congress demanding resignation o

Production at the public sector Bhilai Steel Plant dipped in the 2011-12 fiscal from the previous financial year, the management said Tuesday, blaming the aging coke oven batteries for the fall.

Chief Minister Raman Singh is under severe attack from his partymen as well as Opposition Congress over a CAG report indicting his ministry for allocating coal blocks at “throwaway price” to a comp