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).
Environment ministry granted clearance even though mandatory public consultations were not held The National Green Tribunal has suspended the environment clearance granted to the sponge iron plant of Scania Steel and Power Ltd in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had granted environment clearance to the project in 2008 even though the mandatory public hearing was not held for it.
A Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) panel has recommended clearance for the 18-MTPA Talaipalli coal-mine project of NTPC in the Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh.
A Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) panel has recommended clearance for the 18-MTPA Talaipalli coal-mine project of NTPC in the Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh.
The project had come up for discussion for grant of environmental clearance in the meeting of Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) that was held recently.
Not only are the Forest Rights Act and the Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas Act routinely violated in Chhattisgarh, the adivasis are also short-changed on legislative representation and reservations in government jobs. As the state cedes land to capital while reducing the adivasis to an ornamental presence, there is increasing assertion of adivasi identity, born out of class predicaments and experiences of displacement as much as notions of indigeneity.
