Farm Laws: Retired Civil Servants Say Centre Violated Constitutional Provisions It is time that the ruling dispensation listens carefully to the demands being made and demonstrates its respect for democratic traditions, procedures and practices by engaging in dialogue inside and outside parliament.
Farmers shout slogans at Singhu border during their Delhi Chalo protest march against the Centres new farm laws, in New Delhi, in New Delhi, Friday, December 11, 2020. Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary
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New Delhi: A group of 78 former civil servants, who have served at the Centre and in different states, have issued a statement criticising the Centre’s “violation of constitutional provisions” while pushing through the three contentious new farm laws.
Nagpur: After a wait of over two years, Mahagenco has finally got environmental clearance from the ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC) for its captive coal mine in Chhattisgarh. The mine Gare Palma II will supply coal to Koradi, Chandrapur and Parli power plants.
Coal ministry had allocated the block, located in Raigarh district, spread across 2,583.486 hectare with geological reserves of 1,059.761 million tonne in August 2016 to Mahagenco.
Purushottam Jadhav, director (mining) of Mahagenco, told TOI, “We now have to acquire land and get forest clearance. Since we are acquiring forest land, we will have buy and transfer equivalent land to forest department. All these processes would be done through Raigarh collector. This will take some time and we plan to start mining by March 2023.”
Nagpur: The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government has come out with a renewable energy policy that has set a target of adding 17,385MW renewable energy capacity by 2025. It was cleared by the cabinet on Wednesday. An investment of Rs 75,000 crore is expected in this sector in the coming five years.
Other than this, a lot of solar energy will be generated in off-grid mode especially by installing 1 lakh solar farm pumps every year. The current installed capacity is 9,305MW and work on projects having 2,123MW capacity is in progress.
The state policy is in line with India’s commitment to international community to reduce its carbon emissions. The country has signed the Paris Agreement in 2015 wherein 40% of its power generation capacity will be from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030.