Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
India's environment ministry has found that state-controlled Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) expanded a steel plant without its approval, according to a government letter seen by Reuters. The company in January sought the permission from the ministry to expand the plant's capacity to 6.3 million tonnes a year from 4 …
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, and NTPC have decided in-principle to form a joint venture to set up a Greenfield coal-fired power plant. “The discussions are in progress. We are yet to work out nitty-gritty of our understanding though both the companies are in …
VISAKHAPATNAM: Two years after a major blast left 19 dead at state-run Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd's Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, two engineers were killed in the container laboratory of the same Steel Melting Shop-2 (SMS) of the plant here on Monday reportedly due to gas leakage. The deceased were identified as …
New Delhi : A high-level panel of the union environment ministry will over the next two days consider clearances for a clutch of projects entailing an investment of about Rs 80,000 crore. The expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the ministry of environment and forests will revisit 28 projects in the …
Two days after Cyclone Phailin made landfall, Chhatrapur, the district headquarters of Ganjam, struggled without electricity or water supply. And as the villagers made their way back home from the cyclone shelters, many found their houses flattened. The official death toll due to the cyclone was pegged at 21 on …
NMDC is setting up a 1.8-million-tonne-per-annum (mtpa) beneficiation plant and a 1.2-mtpa pellet plant at an investment of Rs 650 crore KIOCL, a steel ministry undertaking facing severe shortage of iron ore for its pellet plant in Mangalore, is planning to partner public sector mining giant NMDC for a pellet …
The Andhra Pradesh government today sought to put at the rest the political controversy over the Bayyaram mines issue, saying there was no proposal to divert iron ore to the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP). “There is no proposal to divert iron ore to Visakhapatnam from Bayyaram mines. The ore is …
To facilitate execution of VSP's expansion programme, the state govt had also agreed to allot iron ore mines Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), belonging to Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), has embarked upon a massive expansion plan involving an investment of Rs 42,400 crore. To facilitate execution of VSP's expansion programme, …
PANJIM: The Union Ministry of Mines dropped a bombshell Friday, by shooting a copy of the letter addressed to Orissa government to all State governments which says that basic Central government permissions were needed before renewal of mining leases and permissions from the Indian Bureau of Mines and assessment of …
The steel ministry has called for the auctioning of all unused coking coal mines in the country to steel makers in view of the paucity of the fuel, triggering sharp reactions from Coal India Ltd. In its revised draft National Steel Policy 2012, the steel ministry has proposed that Bharat …
The Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (Visakhapatnam steel plant) has received the CII-ITC sustainability award 2012. President Pranab Mukherjee presented the award to A.P Choudhary, the Chairman and Managing Director of the RINL, at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on Tuesday. A commendation certificate for “strong commitment” …
Loss due to non-revision of domestic prices by the company in line with movement of market price Iron ore miner NMDC has suffered Rs 745.94 crore revenue loss during 2007-10 for not revising the domestic prices of the steel-making raw material in line with prevailing market rates, government auditor CAG …
Hyderabad: Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd, the corporate entity of Vizag Steel, is mulling setting up of a cement plant as part of its plans to dispose byproducts such as slag and fly ash, a senior company official said. RINL may also enter into a long-term contract to supply these byproducts …
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF STEEL RAJYA SABHA QUESTION NO 1506 ANSWERED ON 06.12.2012 Fire accident at RINL 1506 DR. T.N. SEEMA Will the Minister of STEEL be pleased to satate :- (a) whether Government has ordered safety audit of all the public sector steel plants after fire accident at …
Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma on Monday urged the Uttar Pradesh government to expedite the procedures for the lease of iron ore mines in Lalitpur district of Bundelkhand region to the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL). “We are confident the state government would soon take positive steps in this …
Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma today pulled up SAIL and RINL over their "unsatisfactory" performances and said the two public sector firms could have fared better if their expansion and modernisation programmes were completed on time. "I am not satisfied with the performances of SAIL and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd …
Mumbai The government intends to start its 2012-13 divestment plan by offloading a further 10% stake in the state-owned iron ore producer, National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), through the offer for sale (OFS) mechanism for nearly R7,000 crore. Even though the government had to defer its plans of diluting stake …
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said the mines ministry had moved a note for the sale of the government’s residual stake in Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL) and Bharat Aluminium (Balco). The matter would go to the Cabinet and the finance ministry would give its views in due course, he …
In a blow to Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL), the Odisha government has refused allotment of iron ore mines in favour of the navratna PSU. The state government has communicated its decision to the steel maker, citing its inability to allot iron ore mines since it has already decided to …
NMDC has raised iron ore prices by 8-13 per cent for domestic sales Fearing a further squeeze on profit margins, steel manufacturers have sought intervention of the ministry of steel in the issue of the recent “arbitrary” price increase in iron ore price by state-owned NMDC. In a letter dated …
