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Why is Powai not forest land?
“Why was this area not covered under deemed forest land?,” asked a member of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC'S), perched on a hillock inside the Godrej colony in Vikhroli overlooking the Powai Hiranandani area.
- Date:
- 01/01/2009
- Source:
- Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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SC panel to inspect forest land houses
Mumbai: Members of the Central Empowerment Committee (CEC) of the Supreme Court will arrive in the city on December 29 for inspecting properties situated on forest land.
- Date:
- 25/12/2008
- Source:
- Times Of India (Mumbai)
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Centre takes forest tag off Kanjurmarg dumping site
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The Centre has once again cleared the 141 hectares of land at Kanjurmarg for a dumping ground, lifting the forest tag that was mistakenly given to that plot. However, it will be a while before the BMC can use the place to dump debris as the state is yet to give the nod.
- Date:
- 23/12/2008
- Source:
- Times Of India (Mumbai)
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Tata Motors in Singur: A step towards industrialisation or pauperisation?
The Singur “model” of industrialisation as represented by the now abandoned Tata Motors project in West Bengal has a number of regressive features. The Left Front government in West Bengal, in competition with other states for the location of Tata Motors’ Nano automobile complex, fell overboard in offering subsidies to the company.
- Date:
- Dec 2008
- Source:
- Economic and Political Weekly Vol: 43 Issue: 50 pp: 36-51
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Nailing the Himachal Pradesh government’s lies
The Himachal Pradesh government has made a number of false statements on crucial issues affecting the villagers of Gagret in Una district relating to the land that will be acquired for a proposed special economic zone. An airport that is to come up will affect the population of 25 villages, a majority of whom are peasants owning less than one hectare of land.
- Date:
- Dec 2008
- Source:
- Economic and Political Weekly Vol: 43 Issue: 50 pp: 14-15
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Plan in place for waste treatment plant for Gurgaon
Providing a ray of hope to the residents of Gurgaon, Haryana Government has promised to build a modern solid waste-treatment plant at Bandhwari village, along the Gurgaon-Faridabad road.
- Date:
- 08/12/2008
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- Indian Express (Chandigarh)
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Forest encroachment highest in State
Assam has earned the distinction of being the State in the country with highest forestland under encroachment. The State has an estimated 3.5 lakh hectares of land under encroachment. The reports came in even as the Union Cabinet cleared a proposal to take over of eight new forest areas under its flagship programme Project Tiger in the country.
- Date:
- 05/12/2008
- Source:
- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Mamata tells Singur farmers to till land
Miss Mamata Banerjee today announced that the farmers who had been dispossessed of their land measuring about 400 acres for the small car project in Singur could start cultivation on their lands any time now.
- Date:
- 03/12/2008
- Source:
- Statesman (Kolkata)
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Singur: What happened, what next and time to pay the cost
Since Tata Motors has shifted the Nano project from Singur, the company will have to meet the cost of land acquisition, development and the police protection that was provided for two years. The state government should issue a global expression of interest to set up an automobile plant in the area – the land cannot be used for any other purpose.
- Date:
- Nov 2008
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- Economic and Political Weekly Vol: 43 Issue: 48 pp: 13-16
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'Sustainable land management a must for food security'
Sustainable management of land, the scarcest resource in the country, is a must to ensure security of food, water and energy but the development policies of the country was never focused on this sector, the speakers said.
- Date:
- 27/11/2008
- Source:
- Daily Star (Bangladesh)
