Experts Feel That Govt Needs A Policy Framework To Curb Rampant Illegal Sand Mining & Chart Regulated Mining Process The row over mineral sand mining between the public, private sector industries and the environmental groups illustrates the lack of a proper state-level policy on sand mining and experts say that an effective mineral sand mining policy is necessary to curb illegal sand mining.
A dedicated institutional mechanism to address the adverse impacts of climate change such as extreme weather events like Typhoon Haiyan and Cyclone Phailin may well be within reach at the end of the ongoing
All decks for the Navi Mumbai airport are now clear with the Maharashtra government offering a slew of benefits to those affected by the project and were opposed to their land being acquired as they were not happy with the rehabilitation package.
People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA) has demanded the Reliance Power Limited (RPL) for immediate payment of compensation money to the project affected people of 700 MW Tato-II hydel project in West Siang
One development plan that seems to be moving backwards in poll-bound Mizoram is hydro power. “We have said many times we are going to dam all our rivers,” Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla had said when this journalist asked AICC general secretary Luizinho Faleiro in September how the party intends to boost the state’s debt-ridden economy if it wins again.
Kochi: The Western Ghats people’s forum will stage an agitation in Thiruvananthapuram in the first week of December to press its demand that residential areas, farm lands and estates should be excluded
<p>The Draft Rules for the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 put up in the public domain by the Ministry of Rural Development.</p>
Joon-gyu Lee, South Korea’s ambassador to India, on Monday said the foundation stone for Posco India’s 12-million-tonne steel project in Orissa is likely to be laid early next year. He added that the president of South Korea might do the honours. “The state government has successfully completed land acquisition for the project. I hope everything will be ready for construction to begin,” he said.
The Reang tribe in Tripura, which practised shifting cultivation and still does to an extent, faces serious problems with the state government implementing measures to turn them into settled cultivators.
The Government of India will not extend the tenure of the Justice M. B. Shah Commission inquiring into illegal mining in seven states. Sources in the commission told The Hindu that the one man Commission’s
