In what could trigger fresh controversies, the NDA Government at the Centre during the last two years has accorded environment and forest clearance to several hydroelectric projects that have a combined
The Kolkata-based Eastern Zone (EZ) Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) admitted on July 30, 2015, an appeal (No-04/2015/EZ) Pradip Kumar Bhuyan and another versus Union of India and Others) that
Three of NHPC’s four stalled projects revived NHPC, the state-run hydroelectric power producer, which has often got stuck with environmentally sensitive projects, may be on the cusp of turning a new
In all, thirteen student and youth organisations of Tinsukia district had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 4 last year expressing serious concern over the environment and forest clearance
The Ministry of Environment, Forrest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has accorded environment clearance for construction of the 2,880-MW Dibang Multipurpose Project in Lower Dibang Valley district of Arunachal
State-owned NHPC has received environmental clearance for its Dibang multipurpose hydropower cum flood moderation project, worth over Rs 25,000 crore, in Arunachal Pradesh. "Ministry of Environment, Forest
The 3,000-Mw project got the panel's nod by allowing the NHPC to reduce the dam height by only 10 metres - a proposal which had been rejected only a month ago by environment ministry Dibang, India's
NAGPUR : Over a hundred groups and individuals from across the country have opposed Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union Government's move to dilute environmental laws. A two-day consultation (held
The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects has accorded environment clearance to the 3000-MW Dibang Multipurpose Project in its 77 th meeting recently under alleged
Contrary to its pre-election stance, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), after assuming power at the Centre, is seemingly in a hurry to get the proposed mega hydel power projects of the NE region executed.
