The power ministry has warned that denying green clearances to stranded coal projects could jeopardise commissioning of plants that would add nearly 24,000 mega watts over the next two years.

With no solution emerging out of the earlier deliberations, the group of ministers (GoM), set up by the government to sort out issues related to coal mining in No-Go areas, as classified by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), is meeting tomorrow.

This is the second meeting of the GoM after last month

The power ministry plans to impose huge penalties of over .

GoM, headed by Pranab Mukherjee, was scheduled to meet on Friday
The Government has deferred a meeting of a group of ministers that will classify forests into

The government has a reason to smile. The rate at which Indian power plants are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which had been rising sharply, has receded to 2005-06 levels.

BHUBANESWAR: After giving conditional clearance to big ticket projects like Posco and Vedanta following intervention of the Prime Minister

The Union Ministry of Power (MoP) has argued that the timely grant of environment and forest clearances for the proposed hydel projects in Arunachal Pradesh is crucial to ensure India

Union Minister for Power and senior leader of All India Congress Committee, Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that 1000-MW Thermal Power Project was coming up near Pathankot shortly and people of J&K will be benefited in big way.

Addressing a large gathering at a function organized by J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) at Muthi to commemorate the martyrdom day of Mahatma Gandhi, Mr Shinde who was

Share of host states increased from 15% to 50%.

The Union Cabinet today approved a key proposal by the power ministry to increase the share of host states to 50 per cent in allocation of electricity generated from centrally-owned thermal power plants.

It also approved a crucial amendment to the National Tariff Policy to boost green energy generation and help reduce the country

A day before Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives in India, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has sprung a surprise on the Union Cabinet, which meets tomorrow, by hurriedly pushing through a proposal for an agreement with China on green technologies.

An agreement of this sort, sources said, does not currently exist with any other partner country like the US or Japan.

That proposal was moved b