Through every stage of environmental clearance, the Prime Minister's Office and the finance ministry tracked the Rs 54,000-crorePosco integrated steel plant with keen interest even as the Environment Ministry sidestepped its own reservations to let the project pass, records with TOI show. The records accessed from the Environment Ministry do not show any interference from the two quarters but the PMO and the finance ministry followed the case from 2007...
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Only 19 projects were denied green clearance from 2008 to Aug 2011 by Nitin Sethi
Are environmental clearances delaying industrial development in the country? Some in the government might claim so and argue for further easing of green norms but government data shows otherwise. In the past three years, the rate of rejection of projects for environmental clearance was an insignificant 1.13%. Out of the 1,689 projects that the Environment Ministry decided upon from 2008 up to August 2011, only 19 were rejected. The ministry...
More »NGO helps adivasis with alternative plan for forest conservation by Dipannita Das
City-based NGO Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group, in association with other forums and NGOs have helped the tribal populations in the Biligiri Rangaswamy temple sanctuary, also a tiger reserve, in Karnataka, to come up with an alternative community-based plan for conservation, livelihood and management of forest. So far, out of around 62 settlements, 25 in this protected area have got the community forest rights. According to experts, similar processes should also be...
More »Adarsh scam: CAG report indicts former chief ministers
-NDTV A latest report on the Adarsh Society scam indicts two former Chief Ministers of Maharashtra and names some top Army officers for flouting norms. The report, prepared by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), was tabled in Parliament today. It says, "Maximum concessions were given to the Adarsh Housing Society when Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushil Kumar Shinde were chief ministers. Mr Shinde was the Chief Minister when wrong environment clearance was...
More »Orissa HC reserves order on Posco land acquisition
-Orissa Diary The Odisha High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment on a petition seeking quashing of the land acquisition proceedings undertaken for the Posco steel plant proposed to be set up at Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district. The two-judge bench of Chief Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice B N Mohapatra reserved judgment after hearing arguments from all sides on the land acquisition proceedings. The two-judge bench had reserved judgment on it on July...
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