SC orders 5-member committee on Nirma issue
SC orders 5-member committee on Nirma issue
New Delhi, 18 March, 2011
In a major setback to Nirma’s proposed controversial cement plant, the Supreme Court of India today ordered formation of five-member independent expert committee to check whether the land allotted to Nirma company is wasteland or water body.
The five-member team will visit the ground and take assessment. The team will submit its report in eight weeks.
Supreme Court denied stay on Environment ministry’s notice to Nirma. The court directed Nirma company to withdraw its petition on same pending in the Gujarat High Court.
Crux of the judgment
-The Supreme court bench of Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia and Justices KS Panicker Radhakrishnan and Swatanter Kuma directed fresh assessment by a panel of five expert scientists appointed by Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) who will visit the site for spot assessment.
-Meanwhile the construction of the plant will remain in abeyance.
-The expert body report will answer the following questions :
- Whether the lands in question were wetlands/water bodies?
- Whether project could come upon such a wetland/water body? If so what would be its impact in terms of environment degradation?
- If at all, the project should come up on such wet lands/ water bodies, what steps should the user agency take for environmental safeguards?
- What is the precise stage of projects?
-The panel would submit its report in eight weeks to the MoEF.
-MoEF will then appraise the apex court of the findings and conclusions on the next hearing listed for May 10.
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This shows the power of politics in India.
Dr Kalsaria could not achieve any results of his opposition to Nirma plant until he got help from Congress. Congress used it power in centre to stop the construction work.
It is shameful that democratic fight gets nowhere in present India. You need one of the big political parties in your favour.
Thank God, Gandhi did not have to fight in today’s India. Otherwise he would have failed miserably..
AGAIN FEW QUESTIONS.
1,ON WHICH BAZE GOVT LEASD THE LAND?
2,WHO DECIDES THE WET LAND AND WAIST LAND?
3,WHY THIS PLANT WAS OKED IN 2008?
3,WHAT HAPPENED THAT CENTER HAS TO RE-EVALUATE?
4,WHO HELPED IN CENTER TO GET OK OF THE PLAN?
5,ACCORDING TO SANAT-MEHATA,IF DINSHA-PATEL IS THE ONE THAN WHY KANUBHAI
KEPT QUIATE AGAINST HIM? WHY CONGRESSI ARJUN,SHAKTI,ETC DONOT BLAME
ON CENTER AND DINSHA?
6,IF IT IS A NON POLITICAL FIGHT THAN WHY YOUTH CONGRSS GUY PRAISE OF RAHUL?
7,WHY RAHUL WAS ADMIRED?
8,IF RAHUL HAS PROMISED TO HELP THAN WHAT IS THE HIDDEN AGENDA BEHIND IT?
9,KANUBHAI WILL TELL RAHUL TO DO SAME HELP TO FARMERS OF MAHARASHTAR AND ANDHRA?
10,KANUBHAI IS GOING TO TELL RAHUL THAT YOUR CENTER SHOULD NOT PLAY GAME IN
COTTON GROWER.
11,KANUBHAI IS GOING TO TELL SHAKTI FOR WRITTING A LETTER TO I.T.?IT IS NOT ONLY
AGAINST THE FARMERS BUT AS A WHOLE AGAINST THE 5.5 CARORES OF GUJARAT PEOPLE.
I,THINK KANUBHAI IS ONLY INTRESTED IN SPECIAL SECTION OF SOCIETY.HE IS ONLY
INTRESTED IN HIS OWN 7-VILLAGES PEOPLE AND CONGRESS IS ONLY INTRESTED TO PROVIDE
OXYGEN FOR FIRE.
Does that mean the committee MoEF had appointed to bring current stay was of no use? isnt their evaluation good enough for Supreme Court to believe? how is another committee going to evaluate it differently? I dont understand this politics, it seems like another way for the supreme court to manipulate the decision in favor of Nirma eventually, by asking this new committee about how the project could come up on a wet land it is indicating to the committee to explore that option and thereby suggesting the possibility to favour Nirma.
Its ridiculous, I dont think these farmers will get any justice out of Supreme Court, like in case of Singur, they will have to fight their own battle even after Supreme court decision. Our legal system is highly corrupted from top to the bottom.
Pavan, Kanubhai is like Gandhi but he is not God, he is just a human being, so he has two hands and two feet and therefore he can only fight for some number of people if he has to fight effectively like he did by walking 350 kms, if he had to do politics like Modi and everyone else he could take interest in all the agendas you mentioned and poke his nose everywhere but to fight truthfully he can only do it for one or two issues.
He can not fight all the battles in the entire nation because physically he can not be present for everyone. So stop expecting him to run around for each and every problem in the nation, if you are so concerned about those issues why dont you start working on one and see how much can you do to help a single human being?
Whatever politics Supreme Court and High Court are playing will not matter to these farmers because our legal and political system is so corrupt these farmers have to fight for their rights and Kanubhai is supporting their fight if others come and go for their own political agenda he is not worried as long as farmers get their lands back. If he had any political gains in mind he would have joined their parties but he has not he is only welcoming them to increase the support for these farmers cause. I hope you get it.
Thanks Deshgujarat,
you are the only brave portal in the entire country to report some of the striking and shocking details of this issue, very very courageous on your part and I salute you and your team for opening the eyes of Gujarat’s people and showing them the darkest side of ruling party and gujarat government. Please Keep it up.
Dr. Kalsaria and dear farmers, we are with you in mind, body and spirit.
This goondaaraaj Kangress wants to stop a Swadeshi plant by supporting the zamindaars as seen in Maharashtra & AP. Notice the mass scale exploitation of poor laborers by the zamindaars supported by the Kangressi chamchaas in power, who continue to practice untouchability hatred in rural India through their money lending evils from the money stashed away in Swiss black banks. It is no surprise that the same mafia chamchaas support Dr.Kalsaria and his band of zamindaars out of threat from the Nirma plant giving opportunities to local laborers to enter into an organized sector that comes under the monitor of regulation and human rights and in purview of labor laws and fair management rules.
These zamindaars of Mahuva don’t want to pay any taxes, but when it comes to free subsidies for fertilizers, water, pakkaa road, they are the first to gulp those benefits since the goondaaraaj Kangressi chamchaas are ever eager to borrow more from the western banks to decapitate our purchase power, thus enslaving the population, growing the BPL families, fanning communal tension.
Dr.Kalsaria and his band of zamindaars are wasting their energies for becoming roadblocks to swadeshi Hindutva solutions for making our infrastructure self-sufficient. If they are so much interested in saving the water tables, then go and save Maa Ganga and Maa Jamuna from the pollution carried by the UPA chamchaas on a mass scale all over India. If they are so much interested in supporting the agricultural sector and farming, then volunteer to pay taxes from their agricultural income.
In order to save our agriculture sector, while saving our purchasing power (aka Swadeshi culture), we need to support in-house production of cement. But that comes with additional responsibilities for our largely non-corrupt and an upright (Nationalist) Gujarat Government to monitor closely any growth of silent terrorism in the form pollution. We need to support Narendra Modi for this Hindutva movement that breeds Swadeshi Hind-swaraj of Mahatma Mohandas ji and Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar ji.
जय श्री राम!
Only one sentence for the Honorable Judges: If you don’t support a domestic (swadeshi) cement plant in (Nationalist) Gujarat, they you would be compelling our Governments to go with a begging bowl to western countries to setup their hazardous dangerous polluting plants in India (that are banned) so as to keep funding free subsidies to zamindaars without taxing them any paisa, without any funds left for infrastructure that are already in shambles (already at the cost of losing the purchasing power of Rupaiya in the world).
I ask not to support the enslaving policies of goondaaraaj Kangressi who sabotaged a party of Sardar Vallbhabhai and Mahatma Mohandas into a Italian mafia hell-bent to loot India. I request all to support an swadeshi self-respect Hindutva friendly policies of Sh.Narendra Modi for domestic production of cement which is abundantly available in Mahuva and which can make Mahuva a proud place to be in Bhaarat for providing most of the raw materials for the Kalpasar project.
जय श्री राम!
Good move by SC, but the interesting thing is how did MoEF gave green signals to this project in 2008? What was central govt doing?
atleast some sensible person like Mishra is still exist in the world who could see the right think…Kudos to you Shri Mishraji….Thanks
This dispute can be amicably settled if the Mahuva agitators sit down and try to understand the complexity of situation. There are various infrastructure projects in works (जेना माटे सिमेंट अत्यंत अगत्य छे), with mainly Kalpasar as the prime goal, that can solve most of the water problems for farmers and connectivity to the industrial corridor.
Dr. Kalsaria need to know that the main reason US or Russia for that matter have been able to achieve the #1 status in agriculture is due to subsidies earned from their rapid industrialization and self-sufficiency projects that cater to its internal infrastructure growth. No only domestic production stops the external debt trap, but it sustains the most vital farming sector through paying the taxes for meeting its heavy subsidy bills in the form fertilizer, liberal loans, and special discount rate electricity and water bills for farmers.
Over all industries are a win-win as long they don’t pollute to a large extent which is precisely what Narendra Modi and his team of Hindutva brigade are focused on: for the benefit of Antodaya on a mass scale. The issue is simple in one sense. The goondaaraaj Kangress is more interested in looting India to the hilt using the criminal syndicate of Italian mafia. If Gujarat becomes self-sufficient and eventually helps funding the agriculture all over the country through highest tax contribution, then it would sustain the win-win culture of Hindutva. To sustain the agriculture of 1000 hectars it is ok to contribute 30 hectors in the process, just as to protect a nation of 1 billion, we need people who are willing to dedicate their life for it. Dr. Kalsaria and his band of zamindaars don’t understand this simple fact and are getting carried away in the Italian mafia game plan to curtail the swadeshi growth in the land of Mahatma Mohandasji.
जय श्री राम!
It is all about the infrastructure, stupid! It is mainly because of the infrastructure reason. why even though New Jersey has three times more population density than India, you don’t feel the गीच वस्ति crowded there because the population is enabled to spread out. Where as in most major cities of India, urban migration is a massive problem leading to complete break down of sustained living as per human standards as you can witness in Mumbai trains. Narendra Modi can see that happening in cities of Gujarat once more job growth opportunities abound in the industrial corridor.
If higher levels of infrastructure and connectivity could be achieved in Bhaarat, then one day people would stop looking at their own people (aka population) as a problem.And cement is the prime source of raw material for all weather roads or Kalpasar or Narmada project.
If Kanubhai and his band of zamindaars have their way, we would be heavily importing cements, leading to heavy borrowing from the west who fund Kargil intrusion/napak terrorists next door, devaluing our rupee in the process and dwindle our purchasing power, lose jobs to overseas cement manufacturing, or lose someone like Dhirubhai Ambani to some foreign country only because he did not get opportunity to setup an industry in Mahuva, an uncertain future for farming subsidy and our villages, going back to the dark days of British-raj zamindaari caste war untouchability system, threat of conversion, losing freedom to practice our Vaidic sanskruti, and a completely bleak future for our youths. The Mahuva roadblock agitation is a complete lose lose proposition, an outright disastrous idea.
For the social welfare of all, it has been proved again and again that Hindutva offers a youthful solution which looks upon industry as a viable complement for our agricultural economy.
I think we should not stop our local industrialists to do their bit for swadeshi. Instead of going against law abiding industrialists, our focus should be to prevent corruption at GPCB, and to bring Anti-pollution dept. at par with the efforts of Anti-terrorism, so that industries can be well monitored for what they really ought to do.
जय श्री राम!
In this cut throat competitive world, the only reason our villages are protected, कारण our Government funds subsidies and no-income tax rule for the farmers, and no-tax for salt.
Let us understand our Mahatma Bapu in the right context. Bapu was not against economy.
We need to allow a required balance through sufficient industries for swadeshi supply of cement for infrastructure growth and prevent migration from villages, Only then our villages would be saved and the ideals of Hind Swaraj given by Mahatma Mohandasji be sustained and Ram Rajya achieved.
जय श्री राम!