Approximately 273,757 trees will be cut in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand forests in the coming years, the Union environment ministry told informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, while also defending plans to carry out large-scale development projects in the Great Nicobar Island, where it said close to a million trees will be felled in a separate disclosure. In a response to …
Raipur/New Delhi: The Chhattisgarh government submitted an affidavit in Supreme Court stating that there is no need to allocate or use any new mining reserve areas for mining in Hasdeo Aranya and the ongoing Parsa East and Kente Basan mine contains a coal deposit of 350 million tonnes, adequate to meet the entire coal demand for the linked power plants …
Despite protests by local residents, the environment ministry has permitted further coal mining in 1,136 hectares of land in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand, one of the last remaining old growth forests in the country. The forest advisory committee of the ministry on December 23 approved a proposal to extend mining in the Parsa East and Kente Basan block owned by the …
