{"id":5039,"date":"2011-06-29T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2011-06-29T11:40:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:40:43","slug":"environment-ministry-clears-mining-proposals-in-odisha-pti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/5039","title":{"rendered":"Environment ministry clears 6 coal mining proposals in Odisha: PTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/environment\/pollution\/Environment-ministry-clears-6-mining-proposals-in-Orissa\/articleshow\/9040842.cms\" target=\"_self\">a PTI report in Times of India<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span name=\"advenueINTEXT\" id=\"advenueINTEXT\">&quot;All the six coal-blocks  are part of the IB Valley coalfield and only one (Meenakshi-A) is  presently in the &#8216;go&#8217; area, the other five being in &#8216;no go&#8217; areas. All  six blocks will now be considered by FAC ( <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Forest-Advisory-Committee\">Forest Advisory Committee<\/a>) as &#8216;go&#8217; areas,&quot; Environment Minister  <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Jairam-Ramesh\">Jairam Ramesh<\/a> said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Giving green signal to clear coal-blocks linked to UMPP,  <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/NTPC\">NTPC<\/a>  and OPGC power plants, the Minister said the Power Ministry should give  &quot;special focus&quot; on ash disposal and water availability. <\/p>\n<p>Three  coal-blocks (Meenakshi-A, Meenakshi-B and Meenakshi Dipside) have been  allocated to the 3960MW\/4000MW Ultra Mega Power Plant (UMPP). <\/p>\n<p>Coal-blocks (Manoharpur and Manoharpur Dipside) have been allocated to  the 1320 MW power plant of Orissa Power Generation Corporation (OPGC).  One coal-block (Dulanga) has been allocated to NTPC&#8217;s 1600 MW power  plant. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from a PTI report in Times of India. &quot;All the six coal-blocks are part of the IB Valley coalfield and only one (Meenakshi-A) is presently in the &#8216;go&#8217; area, the other five being in &#8216;no go&#8217; areas. All six blocks will now be considered by FAC ( Forest Advisory Committee) as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,399,21,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal","category-environment","category-district-sundergarh","category-industry-thermal-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}