Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Abhishek Panwar Vs Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board & Others dated 20/05/2025. The miscellaneous application was registered on the basis of the report of the joint committee dated July 20, 2024 filed by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) …
DIBRUGARH, Nov 12: The Larua Janata Solar Fencing Protection Committee (LJSFPC) has urged upon the district administration to pay compensation to the farmers of Larua Kolakhowa area under Barbarua development block affected by elephant depredation. Elephants have been creating havoc at several villages, namely Bordoibaam, Majgaon, Do-kolakhowa, Baam Kolakhowa, Itakhuli, …
Throughout Sweet Land of Mine, the destructive role of the MoEF is reprised. This ministry has aided and abetted the overturning of every single piece of legislation designed to protect ecological systems and the communities of Goa. It has done so consistently from the mid-1980s when the Portuguese mining
Organic farm in California gets compensation for pesticide drift a california court awarded a us $1 million compensation to an organic farm whose culinary herbs were contaminated by pesticides drifting in from a neighbouring farm. Jacobs Farm, part of Del Cabo farms in Santa Cruz, suffered losses as pesticides destroyed …
Unravelling the Gujarat SEZ model Recently the Supreme Court ordered a stay on one of the largest special economic zones (sezs) in the country. The stay order on the Mundra sez in Gujarat
The idea behind the car factory in Singur was one of using market principles of growth to transform a predominantly agrarian society. This idea, envisaged by the state government, failed because it did not take into account the important aspect of the value of land to peasants and the dignity …
Seeking special package for the farmers, Congress MLC and former minister Gulchain Singh Charak today appealed the state government to provide immediate compensation for the 100 percent loss of paddy crops suffered by the farmers of entire border belt including Bishnah. While addressing media here today, Charak informed that he …
CHANDIGARH: Baliyana village in Rohtak district has become the first village in Haryana where cheques of annual royalty for acquired land were distributed on Thursday to farmers under the rehabilitation policy of the State Government. Presenting the cheques, Rohtak
Land released to private builders by successive governments in Punjab, including the controversial 32 acres exempted by the Congress which led to the expulsion of Amarinder Singh from the state Assembly, has driven farmers up the wall. About 1,000 persons, whose land was acquired by the Government and handed over …
Dhanbad: The public investment bureau (PIB) has shown the green light to a Rs 6,997-crore Jharia rehabilitation package and it is just a matter of time before the Union Cabinet puts its stamp of approval. But the million dollar question is who will convince some 400,000 residents to evacuate the …
Kanika Datta / New Delhi October 16, 2008, 0:17 IST India Inc, it seems, is increasingly becoming a helpless bystander when it comes to acquiring land for industrial projects. The issue has become so emotive that it causes both heartburn and easy pickings for political parties in opposition
NEW DELHI The farmers of eight villages from Kanjhawala area in northwest Delhi, who have been demanding higher compensation against land acquisition from the Delhi government, have demanded that the government should denotify all land acquisition and first come up with a detailed report on how much land is left …
Gargi Parsai Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee with Samajwadi Party leaders Amar Singh, Jayaprada and others coming out after submitting a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil on the Singur issue, in New Delhi on Tuesday. NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, along with Trinamool Congress president Mamata Banerjee, …
Rahi Gaikwad MUMBAI: Ahead of the State Cabinet meeting, usually slated for Wednesday, Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar and people affected by various projects in Maharashtra protested outside Tilak Bhawan, the Congress party headquarters in Mumbai. Police rushed to the spot and brought Ms. Patkar and the agitators to …
Pune, October 14 Social activist Medha Patkar has demanded the appointment of an inquiry committee to probe into the land acquisition and diversion of water for developmental projects. Patkar who was in Pune on Monday is touring the state to take up issues of those, who have to bear the …
People in Jharkhand resort to peaceful protests, state at its diplomatic best in several parts of Jharkhand, tribals have come out in peaceful protests against industrialization. On September 11, when three surveyors of Bhushan Power and Steel Limited (bpsl) started measuring the fields in Roladih village in East Singhbhum
