Chief minister Arjun Munda today chaired a meeting of State Wildlife Board and directed officials to conduct environment impact assessment study for nearly 13 mining projects so that a final call o

Unresolved issues include whether to provide an 'in principle' environment clearance to the blocks on offer

The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has assured the Coal Ministry that it would examine the issue of whether in-principle environment and forest clearances can be granted to coal blocks that are to be put up for auction. Senior officials of coal ministry today met top officials of Environment Ministry in this regard here and discussed at length the issue of such clearances to mines that are to be auctioned.

The Centre today asked the Odisha government to sort out the forest diversion issues expeditiously in the mining areas.

Any dilution of the rules under the Forest Rights Act, 2006, as being contemplated at the highest levels of the government, could lead to adverse impact in the ongoing Supreme Court case on UPA's d

Continuing its crackdown on non-serious players, the Ministry of Coal deallocated two more coal blocks- Baitarani West and Naini- allotted in Odisha in view of the unsatisfactory progress in development of the coal mines and end-use plants.

The deallocation has been effected by the ministry on the basis of recommendations made by the inter-ministerial group (IMG) of the Centre on coal block allocation. The government has also forfeited 50 per cent bank guarantee provided by the allocatees at the time of allotment.

Steel minister Beni Prasad Verma has cautioned environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan against holding up clearances for SAIL’s iron ore mines in Orissa and Jharkhand, saying this would force the s

MoEF has accorded the final forest clearance for coal block in Madhya Pradesh for diversion of 728.750 hectares of forest land for coal mining.

With the MB Shah Commission probing the alleged Rs 76,000 crore mining scam in Orissa, the state forest department has now asked the steel and mines department to ensure that mining leases operate

The Anil Ambani group’s Reliance Power has received the first stage forest clearance for the Chhatrasal coal block attached to the Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project, it a step closer to start extracti