New Delhi: Jindal Steel and Power Limited got a jolt on Friday with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) cancelling the environmental clearance to the 4 million tonne per annum Gare IV/6 coal mining p
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”.
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Adivasi Majdoor Kisan Ekta Sangthan & Others Vs Ministry of Environment and Forests & Others regarding Environmental Clearance granted to Gare – IV/6 Coal Mining Project (4 MTPA) and a Pithead Coal Washery (4 MTPA) of M/s Jindal Steel & Power Limited located at Raigarh District of Chhattisgarh State, by the Ministry of Environment & Forests.
This appeal is filed challenging the Environmental Clearance (for short EC) granted to Gare – IV/6 Coal Mining Project (4 MTPA) and a Pithead Coal Washery (4 MTPA) of M/s Jindal Steel & Power Limited located at Raigarh District of Chhattisgarh State, by the Ministry of Environment & Forests (for short MoEF), the First Respondent herein,
This video shows the moments of public hearing of environmental clearence for thermal power plant of M/s Raigarh Energy Limited (New Name Jaiswal Niko Energy Ltd) proposed to come up in village Jobaro and Hamirpur of Raigarh district in Chhattisgarh on September 23, 2011.
This video shows the moments of public hearing of environmental clearence of setback to the 2X800 MW capacity super thermal power plant of M/s NTPC Limited proposed to come up in village Kandagarh, Aadmuda, Jhilgitar, Develsura, Mahloi, Chhapora, pali and Lara in Pussore Tehsil, Raigarh District (Chattisgarh) on December 23, 2
New Delhi The CAG might choose to call it “unintended benefit” to certain firms rather than loss to the exchequer, but the policy of captive coal blocks formulated in 1993 has clearly given ample opportunity for a veritable cross-section of corporate India to grab the dwindling natural resource for a song and make undue profits at the cost of consumers.
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) carried out this technical analysis of the EIA report of the expansion project of thermal power plant of M/s Korba West Power Company Limited, Raigarh.
Raman Singh-led Chhattisgarh Government and the Indian Railways on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop three rail corridors in the coal rich Northern region of the tribal State.
National Green Tribunal Judgment dated 9/02/2012, on Sponge Iron Plant in District Raigarh, Chattisgarh, before 2004 i.e. prior to issuance of EIA Notification, 2006. The production capacity of the said existing unit was 66,000 TPA of Sponge Iron (2 x 100 TPD kilns).
