Big steel firms illegally mined Rs. 45,000 Cr worth

News this week: Commission finds that big corporates mined Rs. 45000 Cr worth iron ore, Delhi residents protest waste incinerator and POSCO's clearance to be revalidated.

Illegal Ironore mining in Odisha (Indialatest.org)

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14 Jan 2014, 1:10 pm

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River Monitoring station near Periyar

A river monitoring station has been set up near the Periyar river in Ernakulam district of Kerala. The equipment will check the river and water quality and display the results at the board installed by the State Pollution Control Board. Environment activists, however, have raised apprehensions about the usefulness of the system. According to them, the quality-measuring equipment and censors for detecting water quality are placed in areas of the river far away from the discharge points of industrial units and polluted areas.

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