Pune A team of 49 members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) from Pune was deployed to tackle the chlorine leak at the Mumbai Port Trust dock at Haji Bunder in Sewri. The team, which is still on the job, helped out to neutralise the cylinders at the Trust.
The audit was done to examine whether due diligence has been exercised in selection of a private developer for development of a Pondicherry Port on BOT basis and the procedure laid down by the Union Government in this regard has been followed by Government of Pondicherry.
KOLKATA, 17 June: In a strange bit of irony the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) is seeking to acquire 2,500 acres of land in Nandigram where the state government has stopped all acquisition activities following a violent agitation over land acquisition for industrial purpose in 2007.
ONGOLE, June 4: The minister for major industries, Mr Kanna Lakshminarayana, said on Friday at Singarayakonda that the state government was going to develop at least one port in each coastal district from Nellore to Srikakulam.
Visakhapatnam, June 4: The city, rated one of the most polluted among the top cities in the country, is struggling to cope with the current situation.
Two major ports, the Visakhapatnam Port Trust and the Gangavaram Port, are spewing coal dust into the environment in old town area and in Gajuwaka, apart from the major public sector industries contributing their own share of pollution.
The Goa Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat, on Tuesday sought the intervention of the Centre in resolving the imbroglio between the State Government and the south Goa-based major port Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) over the latter's development and infrastructure expansion projects.
