Developers have sought extension due to reasons such as adverse business climate, slowdown, and delay in approval and environmental clearances.
Land acquisition issues & costs a big query; Cidco wants these fully addressed before calling preliminary bids.
Says pre-1991 licence raj should not return, clearance process to be overhauled.
A day after the Union ministry of environment and forest suspended the environmental clearances for all the 93 mining leases in Goa, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has said that he will appeal to prime minister to "set things right" in the green ministry headed by Jayanti Natarajan.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday alleged that officials of Union Ministry of Environment and Forests took bribes from the state's mine-owners before Jairam Ramesh took over the ministry.
The ministry has also noted the controversial proposal of opening up the coal sector and restructuring of CIL.
Issues relating to environmental clearances and work visas were the main factors deterring bilateral trade and Indian investment into Canada
Soon after stalling Vedanta's proposed bauxite mining project in Orissa, the Environment Ministry on Tuesday said the licence granted to mining firms supplying the mineral to its alumina refinery is under scanner.
The two-year marathon inquiry conducted by a judicial commission into the Adarsh scam has ended with the Maharashtra government said to have admitted for the first time that the controversial housing society did not have necessary environmental clearances.
Jindal SAW, an O P Jindal Group company, is yet to receive a copy of the notice.
Amid increasing problems faced in acquiring forest lands for commercial purposes, the Survey for 2010-11 tabled in Parliament said there should be parity in the compensation package paid. It said there was an 'urgent need to streamline land acquisition and environment clearance for infrastructure projects.'
While investors might be jittery, experts say proposals from companies looking to raise funds through PEs have not decreased.
From environmental clearance to regulatory approval, from land acquisition for greenfield projects to displacement of tribals, it's been a season of scams, deep mistrust and hostility among companies, bureaucrats, regulators and politicians.
It took 13 years to get environmental clearance for the greenfield international airport at Navi Mumbai.
Withdraws petition from green tribunal, makes fresh plea for Lanjigarh project.
The high court, however, allowed the company to make a fresh bid to obtain environmental clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest for any further expansion of its existing units.
This comes close on the heels of the ministry's stand on the development of a new international airport in Navi Mumbai.
It is raining mega investment in Orissa, but none of the big ticket projects have made any headway.
Goa may resume iron mining in two months after green nod.
Passing an order on a PIL filed by S Sai Kumar, hailing from Yanam, a territory of Puducherry, a Division Bench comprising Justices Prabha Sridevan and G M Akbar Ali said on Tuesday that the fact that Reliance had obtained approval after commencing the project was not enough.
Nasdaq-listed Infosys has said it was the failure of the state government in fulfilling the agreed conditions that led to the delay in executing its 448-acre IT Special Economic Zone project in Hyderabad.
In a jolt to the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh, the Allahabad High Court on Friday restrained it from proceeding on the ambitious Ganga Expressway project aimed at connecting the state's eastern and western parts and directed it to obtain prior environmental clearance.The order was passed by a division bench comprising Justice Ashok Bhusan and Justice Arun Tandon, on a petition filed by a Varanasi-based social organisation 'Ganga Mahasabha'.
'An area of land has already been earmarked for their protected habitation.' 'There are also steps being taken to take care of the coral zone and mangroves.'
The Rs 56,000-crore (Rs 560 billion) Adani Group on Monday received a major blow from the Gujarat High Court, which ordered a shutdown of 12 units in Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), located in Mundra, Kutch district, with immediate effect.
'When there are no good roads and no buses plying to villages, your spending on development is skewed.'
Under the proposed amendment to the environment clearance law, industries can expand simply by certifying that they are not polluting. Among the sectors that will benefit from this procedure are mining, power and petrochemicals, a range of manufacturing industries, in addition to dredging, shipping, port development, building and construction and industrial estates.
ArcelorMittal wants to cash in on the demand for steel in India but said it is constrained by the delays in getting mining and environmental clearances for the projects.
Coal India achieved a staggering production of 536.51 million tonnes during the financial year ended March 31, 2016
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Issue in two months for Australian projects; group to invest another $15 billion in infrastructure projects by 2020.
The ease with which city-level master plans are altered and land-use patterns changed without considering carrying capacities or the overall environmental footprint of urbanisation in different states has already created water and air pollution crises in several emerging and existing cities.
The draft environment impact assessment (EIA) notification, 2020, which involves the procedure of issuing environmental clearances to various projects, was issued by the Environment Ministry in March this year and has received thousands of suggestions from the public.
The Central Vista revamp, announced in September, 2019 envisages a new triangular Parliament building, with seating capacity for 900 to 1,200 MPs, that is to be constructed by August, 2022 when the country will be celebrating its 75th Independence Day.
The revamp, which was announced in September last year, envisages a new triangular Parliament building, with seating capacity for 900 to 1,200 MPs, that is targeted to be constructed by August, 2022 when the country will be celebrating its 75th Independence Day.
Dengue has become a major public health concern in India with 289,235 cases reported last year. This year there were 19,447 cases of dengue which resulted in 19 deaths till April 2024.
The project was announced in September 2019 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the new Parliament building on December 10, 2020.
GMR Group is currently investing Rs 20,000 crore to expand the existing airports and developing new aerodromes, GM Rao, chairman of the infra major has said. "Airport Development and Construction: GMR Group has set benchmarks for development of world class Airport infrastructure... Your company is currently investing approximately Rs 20,000 crore to expand the existing airports and develop new Aairports," he said in the group's latest annual report. GMR's airport business comprises four operating airports - Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, Bidar Airport at Karnataka and Mactan Cebu International Airport in the Philippines.
The conglomerate, which has received environmental clearance for the project, plans to invest around Rs 1,500 crore in it.
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