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Action taken report of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) in respect of Vengayyana Kere/ K R Puram lake/ tank located at K R Puram and Sannathammanahalli village, Hobli, Bengaluru east taluk, Bengaluru urban district dated 03/05/2023.

The Supreme Court on 24 September 2014 cancelled 214 of the 218 coal blocks allotted by different central governments since 1993 terming these allocations illegal. But four coal blocks allocated to public sector units -- SAIL, NTPC and two for Ultra Mega Power Projects – were spared from de-allocation. Read text of this 27-page apex court order

Office Report submitted in the Supreme Court dated 09/09/2014 in W.R. 120/2012 (Manohar Lal Sharma etc. Vs The Principal Secretary & Ors) regarding coal block allocation

In a landmark judgement on 25 August 2014, the Supreme Court declared illegal all allocation of coal blocks between 1993  and 2010 and cancelled the allocation of nearly 200 coal blocks.