New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday ordered that status quo be maintained on the Orissa High Court judgment cancelling the State's decision to grant prospective iron ore mining licence to the South Korean steel major, Posco, over the Kandadhar mines.A Bench of Justices R.V. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik issued notices to the Centre, Geomin Minerals and Marketing (P) Ltd.
An instance of how official negligence deprived tribal farmers of irrigation facilities for nine years in Sundargarh district has come to light.
Even though the State Government claimed that the irrigation project in question has been completed and ready for providing irrigation from 2009-10 kharif, the CAG in its latest report has maintained that this is not factually correct.
The Orissa government on Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Orissa High Court judgment cancelling the licence granted by the State to POSCO for iron ore mining in the Kandadhar mines in Sundergarh district.
Acting on a petition filed by Geomin Minerals and Marketing (P) Ltd., the High Court had directed that the licence recommended by the State in 2009 to be granted to POSCO be canc
The Orissa government on Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Orissa High Court order that quashed its decision to permit South Korean steel major Posco to mine iron ore in Sundergarh district of the state.
With the Orissa government dallying on going to the Supreme Court against the High Court order cancelling recommendation of prospecting licence (PL) for Khadadhar iron ore deposits in favour of Posco, the South Korean steel major has filed a special leave petition (SLP) in the apex court challenging the high court order.
The Orissa government will file a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court this week, challenging the verdict of the Orissa High Court that quashed its recommendation of prospective licence (PL) for iron ore mining by Posco in Khandadhar, Sundargarh district, which is one of the richest ore blocks of the state.
This report by Mining Zone People’s Solidarity Group investigates actual impacts of the POSCO project on people of Jagatsinghpur, Keonjhar and Sundergerh in Orissa where the steel plant, the port, and the mines will be set up.
ROURKELA: Villagers in the border pockets of Sundargarh are paying a heavy price with governments of Orissa, Jharkhand and Chhattishgarh going indifferent to the growing elephant menace.
With the natural habitat of wild elephants getting shrunk, it has become a regular affair for the jumbos to stray into villages in Sundargarh from the adjacent states' forests.
