Energy

Executive summary of rapid environment impact assessment study for R.R. Energy Ltd, Village - Garhumaria Tehsil-Distt- Raigarh

The Biomass base power plant of RREL is located near village Darramuda and Garh umaria , at Raigarh district in the Chhattisgarh state. The 14 MW Biomass based captive power plant is operational since Feb 2007 and 1 lakh tonnes capacity steel plant base on induction furnace is under implementation, for which the consent to establish has already been obtained.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2007
Indus Technical and Financial Consultant Ltd
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Biomass, Energy, Industry, Chhattisgarh, Raigarh (D)
Agriculture

 Chhattisgarh proactive in checking illegal BT rice trials

chhattisgarh became the first state to actively initiate action against biosafety violations in trials of genetically modified Bt rice in India. Besides ordering an enquiry into the matter, the

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
ALOK PRAKASH PUTUL
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Rice, Conflicts, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, India, Chhattisgarh
Poverty

 Anti Naxal operations a cover for exploiting tribal people

the Salwa Judum movement, an armed counter-Naxalite campaign in Chhattisgarh comprising of local tribal and non-tribal people backed by the state, is precipitating a deeper crisis in the state

Publication Date: 
30/10/2006
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Land Resources, Land Ownership, Land Reforms, Tribals, Conflicts, Poverty, Industry, India, Chhattisgarh, Naxalites, Rural Poverty
Industry

 Red alert in Chhattisgarh

Land acquisition is at the centre of intense political and social disputes in the tribal hinterland of Chhattisgarh. On the one hand, Naxal extremists enforce their version of justice by opposing land alienation. But the new state has its compulsion

Publication Date: 
30/10/2006
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Land Resources, Land Ownership, Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Tribals, Conflicts, Industry, Human Rights, India, Chhattisgarh, Naxalites
Industry

 Land factor

Dhurli village, Dantewada district, August 30, 11.30 am: Armed police in riot gear stand in clusters around the walled compound where people of this quiet, picturesque village are to gather for a gram sabha hearing. They are to decide today whether they want Essar Steel to set up a 3.2 million-tonne plant on their land for Rs 7,000 crore.

Publication Date: 
30/10/2006
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Tags:
Land, Gram Sabhas, Chhattisgarh, Dantewada (D), Essar Steel
Agriculture

 Agriculture affected

Agriculture, the mainstay of Chhattisgarh's economy, is getting a battering from two sides

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
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Agriculture, Industrial Pollution, Industry, Chhattisgarh
Industry

 Matter of interpretation

15 hectares of utter confusion

Publication Date: 
29/04/2006
Ruksan Bose
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Environment, Land Resources, Land Ownership, Land Reforms, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Conflicts, Industry, Maruti Udyog, Legislation, Governance, Chhattisgarh, Forests
India

 Crushed by sugar

Farmers in Chhattisgarh blame the state for losses

Publication Date: 
14/02/2006
ALOK PRAKASH PUTUL
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Sugarcane, Farmers, India, Chhattisgarh
India

 Raipur: the most polluted city

Unplanned industrialisation is its major undoing

Publication Date: 
14/10/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Chhattisgarh, Raipur (D), Toxins
Industry

 Popular Opposition

To Jindal Steel's expansion planNearly 2,000 written complaints and a protest document signed by 40,000 people were submitted at a public hearing against the expansion plan of Jindal Steel and Power

Publication Date: 
27/02/2005
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Iron And Steel Industry, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Chhattisgarh

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