-The Hindu Ratnagiri (Maharashtra): The Shiv Sena held a protest march here on Thursday outside the office of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL), which is implementing the proposed 9,900-MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP). Despite being a part of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition at the Centre and in the State, the Sena has repeatedly said that it would not let the project go ahead as long as...
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BMS attacks Centre for coal ordinance -Indrani Dutta & Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu Says the government is resorting to falsehood to rule country Kolkata / New Delhi: The BMS was among the central unions that led 3.6-lakh workers of Coal India Ltd. (CIL) on a five-day strike beginning Tuesday. Earlier in November, the BMS stayed away from a strike called on November 24 by other central trade unions to oppose the coal ordinance. "Four months ago, we had asked Coal Minister Piyush Goyal to...
More »Govt to bring in ordinance for auction of coal blocks to private firms
-The Hindustan Times The government plans to put up coal mines for bidding by private steel, power and cement companies and introduce changes in the law to enable commercial mining in the future, signalling its intent to fully open the sector to private players. The new auction-based system will replace the earlier controversial policy of allotting coal blocks based on recommendations of a panel of bureaucrats, which the Supreme Court had struck...
More »Don’t take away Gram Sabha’s powers under FRA: activists petition Modi -Kumar Sambhav S
-Down to Earth ‘Central government's attempts to do away with consent of Gram Sabhas for diverting forests unconstitutional' A group of activists and non-profits have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing concern over recent attempts by the government to do away with the mandatory requirement of Gram Sabha consent under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) for diversion of forestland for development. The proposed changes in the process of diversion...
More »The world of Green NGOs is as complex as the corporate one -Nitin Sethi
-The Business Standard Foreign direct investment in the NGO sector is, in fact, no different from the cross-holdings and the FDI web of the corporate world ClimateWorks, one of the two international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) recently restricted by the National Democratic Alliance government from funding Greenpeace India Society in India, also funds another NGO, Global International, which, till recently, was headed in India by Union Environment and Forests minister Prakash Javadekar. When...
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