Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
New Delhi Industrial units of the core sectors, like steel and fertiliser, may have to pay a penalty of R10,154 for every tonne of oil equivalent energy shortfall, if they fail to meet the new energy efficiency targets set by the government. The 478 most energy-intensive industrial plants, which account …
The mines ministry has shot down the steel ministry’s proposal that iron ore should be classified as “ a strategic mineral”. The mines ministry argues that iron ore is available in abundance in the country and hence there is no pressing need for the classification. It has written to the …
New Delhi: The Chhatrasal coal block in Madhya Pradesh is in the eye of a storm again, with the group of ministers (GoM) forcing the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to review its decision to deny forest clearance. The allocation of the block had evoked the CAG’s ire, and …
The directive puts the current single-largest FDI in the country at risk Within days of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s assurance to South Korea that all was well with the $12-billion Posco project, the situation has taken a new turn. In a major setback to the South Korean steel giant, the …
Hyderabad The Andhra Pradesh government has given away 88,492 acres land to 1,027 beneficiaries between 2006-11, resulting in a huge multi-crore land scam, a Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report has said. The scathing report, which has been tabled in the state’s legislative assembly, is the CAG’s first …
The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India has found that the Naveen Patnaik government has ‘misused' the Land Acquisition Act for acquiring land for several big industrial projects, including the proposed mega steel plant by South Korean steel major Posco. “Emergency Provisions of Section 17 (4) were misused and applied arbitrarily …
Placing fresh hurdles before India’s biggest FDI project — Rs 50,000 crore Posco Integrated Steel Plant in Odisha — the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday suspended the final 2011 environmental order of the then environment minister Jairam Ramesh in favour of the Korean giant. The NGT did not cancel …
It seeks fresh review by experts, new conditions, compliance with deadline The Rs.51,000-crore Posco steel project in Odisha is back in limbo with the National Green Tribunal suspending the Environment Ministry's nod for the country's single largest FDI venture. The government has been told to have a fresh review conducted …
An Indian tribunal dealt a fresh blow on Friday to a long-delayed, high-profile steel project proposed by the South Korean company Posco by suspending its environmental approval and directing regulators to review the project again. The decision by the National Green Tribunal comes more than a year after the Indian …
The Rs 50,000-crore Posco steel plant in Odisha hit a snag after the National Green Tribunal denied clearance to the project. The Tribunal held that the project will remain suspended till the Environment Ministry reviews it afresh. It pointed out that while the memorandum of understanding between the Odisha Government …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Praffula Samantra Vs Union of India and Others dated 30/03/2012. This appeal is filed against the final order dated 31.1.2011 of the Ministry of Environment & Forests, imposing additional conditions to the Environmental Clearances in respect of (i) steel cum …
On March 30, 2012, the National Green Tribunal held in Prafulla Samantra and Anr. vs Union of India and Ors. that the 31.1.2011 final order of the Environment Ministry – permitting the POSCO project to go ahead with certain conditions – should be suspended until a full review of the …
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 …
New Delhi The coal ministry plans to start bidding for 50 captive coal blocks from June may get delayed a little. Pushed into a corner by the draft CAG audit report over allocation of coal blocks sans auction to scores of public and private companies during 2004-2009, the ministry has …
Steel mills in the southern state currently operating at 60-70% of capacities Even as the illegal mining case in Karnataka gets delayed due to procedural hassles, steel mills in Karnataka that account for a fourth of India’s production of the alloy are operating at 60-70% capacities, due to nonavailability of …
New Delhi The recent freight rate hike announced by railways and the increase in excise duty from 10% to 12% are likely to make domestic steel costlier by over R1,000 per tonne. Major steel companies including Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL), Essar and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam (RINL) on Wednesday announced …
New Delhi The Supreme Court has directed the Orissa government to recommend the case for grant of iron ore reserves to the central government for the Bhushan Power & Steel’s 2.8 million tonne-integrated steel plant at Lapanga, Orissa. Setting aside the Orissa High Court judgment that refused to interfere with …
The Odisha government is gradually acquiring land for Pohang Steel Company (Posco) and now wants the company to begin its work on the already acquired land said Sunil Bhargav, Principal Resident Commissioner, Odisha while updating Pulok Chatterji, Principal Secretary in the PM’s office. Chatterji had called Odisha chief secretary Bijay …
Buoyed by its Hazira complex becoming the country's largest single location flat steel maker with 10 million tonne per annum capacity, Essar Steel is set to commission a pellet unit in a week in Odisha to pave the way for setting up of its proposed 6 million tonne integrated steel …
Country's top iron ore producer NMDC plans to invest Rs 3,513 crore on its upcoming 3 million tonne per annum capacity steel plant at Nagarnar in Chhattisgarh. According to the Budget documents, the state-owned firm has kept a capital expenditure target of Rs 4,655 crore in the next fiscal and …
