Yet-to-be-made public report dismisses environmental concerns The high-level committee set up by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to study the socio-economic and ecological impacts of the proposed bauxite Mining in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district has submitted its final report favouring Mining. The committee concludes Mining will not have any significant negative impact on the ecology. At the same time it recommends settling all claims under the Forest Rights...
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Nine months on, police camps sole development in Saranda Plan-Aman Sethi
Scheme meant for the tribals has been hijacked by Mining firms, claim activists The construction of 24 fortified police bases in the midst of Saranda, an 800-sq. km. patch of forested hills veined with a quarter of India's iron ore reserves, has sparked concerns among political activists who believe that a development plan intended for tribals in Jharkhand has been hijacked by Mining corporations. In October last year, Union Minister for Rural...
More »Stop Mining in Naxal-hit Areas: Deo by Urmi A Goswami
Government should consider a freeze on Mining in Naxal-hit areas, tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo has said. Deo clarified that he was not against the industry or economic development, but unresolved land rights and Mining were principle causes of alienation among tribals. This gave Maoists a toe-hold to exercise control over the area and local population. “To a certain extent, unrest among the tribal population can be traced to...
More »CBI judge in the dock for taking bribe to grant bail to Reddy-KV Ramana
Giving a twist to the series of probes by the CBI and the queue by the accused to secure bail from lower courts, a CBI court judge was suspended by the Andhra Pradesh high court for allegedly accepting bribe to grant bail to Mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy. The high court on Thursday suspended T Pattabhirama Rao, first additional special judge for CBI cases, Hyderabad. However, the high court did not...
More »Green Tribunal seeks MoEF’s response on plea on Western Ghats
-PTI The National Green Tribunal has sought the reply of Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on a plea against grant of any clearance to any new project in ecologically sensitive Western Ghats. The Tribunal also issued notices to the state governments of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu seeking their replies on the plea for implementation of the report by Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) on the...
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