Bombay High Court gives one week-extension to the Ministry The Bombay High Court on Friday gave an extension of one week to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to pass its final order on whether the planned hill-city lavasa near Pune has violated any environmental regulations. The Ministry will now pass the final order by January 17. Additional Solicitor-General Darius Khambatta told TheHindu: “The MoEF applied for and was granted an...
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MoEF team begins 3-day lavasa visit by Nisha Nambiar
An 11-member technical team from the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) visited the lavasa hill station project, 65 km from the city, on Wednesday for a detailed assessment of the Rs 3,000-crore project in Pune district. The team will be in Pune for three days to ready the report on the project. The construction of the project was held up for want of environmental clearance. The team is conducting the...
More »2010: Action-packed year for Environment Ministry
The Environment and Forests Ministry was in news throughout 2010 -- be it for Vedanta Resources, Posco and lavasa -- or for Jairam Ramesh's aggressive green activism. While the ministry rejected the green signal to Vedanta for its $1.7 billion project to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa noting that the company violated the environment and forests rules, it put the $12 billion project by South Korean steelmaker Posco...
More »'Scam' in loans to lavasa, Adani
Over a month after the CBI cracked down on the alleged multi-crore kickbacks-for-loans scam, investigators are believed to have found irregularities in the loan files of at least eight companies, including lavasa, DB Realty, Mantri Realty and Adani Group. In November, the CBI had arrested three members of Mumbai-based financial service company Money Matters and four others for their involvement in the alleged loan scam. The CBI, after going through loan...
More »MoEF refuses to lift stay on lavasa
Twenty-four hours ahead of the hearing in the Bombay High Court, the environment ministry has upheld its order asking lavasa Corporation Limited to stop all work in its hill township project near Pune. Work at the 25,000-acre planned city was put on hold by a showcause order issued on November 25. The ministry had said that final order on the showcause will be issued by December 31, provided lavasa “co-operated and...
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