NGT sets up panel to probe kidney-related deaths in Odisha’s chromite mining belts
The committee will visit the sites in question and submit its report on an affidavit regarding the allegations made in the complaint letter within four weeks.
The committee will visit the sites in question and submit its report on an affidavit regarding the allegations made in the complaint letter within four weeks.
RTI activists Srikant Paikal and others had moved the apex green tribunal alleging that Sambalpur-based Shanti Construction Company had resorted to day broad day light of minor minerals from Tangi-Choudwar tehsil of Cuttack district.`
The case pertains to the discharge of untreated leachate into river Beas at village Rangadi, gram panchayat Shallen, Manali .
SC said there are sufficient safeguards in the plan to balance the need for development while taking care of and addressing the environmental and ecological concerns.
The Committee shall examine the matter, if necessary, visit the site concerned, collect relevant information, study the matter, and submit a detailed factual report with all relevant materials within three months, said the NGT.
Meanwhile, the state does not have a mining plan and is working to get one with the technical support of the Central Mine Planning and Design Institute and the Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited.
Earlier, the doctors had to furnish Rs 10 lakh bank guarantee and so far 35 doctors had breached the norms by working in private hospitals or outside the state without informing the government.
During their search operation, the Navy team also stumbled on tell-tale signs like spades, a wooden cart and then located the dead miner inside the mine.
The top court had earlier this month refused to stay the green tribunal's order of setting aside the state government's decision to close Vedanta's Sterlite copper plant at Tuticorin.
The plane carrying high-power pumps took off from Odisha for Guwahati in Assam, from where the equipment will be taken to the rat-hole mine in Meghalaya.
