Reports and Documents

The conference of state sanitation ministers organised in Delhi by the rural development ministry called for accelerating Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) & mainstreaming rural sanitation agenda in the public domain. <br>

Union Minister of Rural Development Dr.C.P.Joshi emphasized the need to address the issues of access and quality of sanitation facilities in rural areas across the country.

State Ministers Conference is scheduled to be held on 28th October, 2010 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

The high corridors of the nation are abuzz with talk about how much food should be given to the country’s poor as a right. Should it be 25 kg of rice or 35 kg of wheat a month per person at highly subsidized rates? Read this latest blog by Sunita Narain, Director of CSE.

 Reports of the expert committee constituted by Minsitry of Environment and Forests to investigate into the proposal submitted by POSCO India Pvt. Limited for establishment of an Integrated Steel Plant and Captive Port in Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa. This includes report by Meena Gupta, the Chair of the Committee and a separate report by three other members of the committee - Urmila Pingle, Devendar Pandey, V. Suresh.

Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has ordered Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. (VAL) to halt expansion work at its alumina refinery & captive power plant in Lanjhigarh at Kalahandi district, Orissa.

Environmental clearance to the mining leases of 5 ha (major minerals and mining leases of minor mineral of 5 ha which have been operating before 14.09.2006) - applicability of EIA Notification, 2006, dated October 21st, 2010.

This report by Mining Zone People’s Solidarity Group investigates actual impacts of the POSCO project on people of Jagatsinghpur, Keonjhar and Sundergerh in Orissa where the steel plant, the port, and the mines will be set up.