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The State of West Bengal Vs. Kesoram Industries Ltd. and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : (2004)187CTR(SC)219; [2004]266ITR721(SC); JT2004(1)SC375; 2004(1)SCALE425; (2004)10SCC201

..... the central government, regard being had toquality thereof, had all along been subjected to statutory orders. thegradation of coal decedent upon the quality thereof was to be determined bythe 'coal board' constituted under the coal mines conservation and safetyact. quality of coal may depend not only on the location of the coal minesbut also from the particular seams wherefrom it is extracted. requirementof maintenance of price of ..... coal on an all-india basis had all along beenconsidered to be imperative in the economic and industrial development ofthe .....

Tara Prasad Singh and ors. Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1980SC1682; (1980)4SCC179; [1980]3SCR1042

..... 1974, in order, principally, to provide for the conservation of coal and development of coal mines. section 4(1) of that act enables the central government, for the purposes of conservation of coal and for the development of coal mines, to exercise such powers and take or ..... neither be a systematic regulation of mines nor a scientific development of minerals. the importance of conservation of natural resources in any scheme of regulation and development of such resources can be seen from the fact that the parliament had to pass in august 1974 an act called the coal mines (conservation and development) act, 28 of ..... or as may be prescribed. by section 5(1), a duty, is cast on the owners, of coal mines to take such steps as may be necessary to ensure the conservation of coal and development of the coal mines owned by them. while moving the nationalisation amendment act in the lok sapha on may 17, 1976, the .....

Western Coalfields Ltd. Through the Chief General Manager Vs. the Stat ...

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : 2009(4)BomCR414; 2009(111)BomLR502

..... sub-section (1) the government company shall, on and from the date of such vesting, be deemed to have become the lessee in relation to such coal mine as if a mining lease in relation to the coal mine has been granted to the government company and the period of such lease could have been granted under the mineral concession rules; and all the rights ..... background of above provisions under maharashtra land revenue code. section 18 of this act casts duty upon the central government to take all such steps as may be necessary for conservation and systematic development of minerals in india and for protection of environment by preventing or controlling any pollution and to make rules for that purpose. sub-section (2) gives heads .....

Janu Chandra Waghmare and ors. Vs. the State of Maharashtra and ors.

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : AIR1978Bom119; (1977)79BOMLR499

..... was adversely affecting agriculture and agricultural population and that therefore it was expedient 'to acquire private forests in the state of maharashtra generally for conserving their material resources and protecting them from destruction or over-exploitation by their owners and for promoting systematic and scientific development and management of such ..... fruits on them, shrubs, bushes, woody vegetation, undergrowth, pastures, honey-combs attached to trees, juices dried on trees, things embedded in the earth like mines and quarries with their produce locked up in the land, wild and stray animals (excluding domestic animals like cows, buffalos, goats, sheep etc.) living in the ..... of private forests under entry 19 of list ii read with entry 42 of list iii and incidentally touches leasehold rights and other rights in mining leases or prospecting licences and therefore the encroachment being incidental the enactment must be held to be valid. this challenge, therefore, also fails,58 .....

Dropti Devi and anr. Vs. Union of India and ors

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... on december 19, 1974. its preamble reads as under: "an act to provide for preventive detention in certain cases for the purposes of conservation and augmentation of foreign exchange and prevention of smuggling activities and for matters connected therewith. whereas violations of foreign exchange regulations and smuggling activities are ..... law regulating certain payments, dealings in foreign exchange and securities, transactions indirectly affecting foreign exchange and the import and export of currency for the conservation of the foreign exchange resources of the country and the proper utilization thereof in the interest of the economic development of the country. section 2 ..... of prosecution. however, in cofeposa viz., the power to detain a person to prevent him from indulging in any prejudicial activities relating to conservation or augmentation of foreign exchange is given although there is no corresponding penal punitive law available.he referred to various provisions of fema, particularly, .....

Laxmi Narayan Agarwalla and ors. Etc. Vs. State of Orissa and ors. Etc ...

Court : Orissa

Reported in : AIR1983Ori210

..... korba, air 1982 sc 697, the controversy was whether property tax could be imposed on the lands and buildings which were used for the purpose of mining operations and were covered by coal mines. it was urged therein that when by virtue of the declaration in section 2 of the central act of 1957 the legislative field covered by entry ..... (vesting of rights) act of 1973 was beyond the legislative competence of the state legislature. the supreme court repelling the contention that acquisition was only a means of conservation or development of mineral resources and the field stood excluded by the declaration of section 2 and the other provisions of the central act, 1957 observed (at page 1666 ..... a strange phenomenon. such a situation also arises where multiple taxation is resorted to, e.g. (a) general tax, (b) water tax, (c) drainage tax and (d) conservancy tax in relation to a holding.in avinder singh v. state of punjab, air 1979 sc 321, it was observed, (at p, 324) :'there is nothing in article 265 .....

Zee Telefilms Ltd. and anr. Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2005SC2677; (2005)4CompLJ283(SC); JT2005(2)SC8; (2005)4SCC649

..... special that the argument carries even less conviction than it is usually apt to do when invoked against some moderate advance in the common law.australia:132. in romeo v. conservation commission of the northern territory [(1998) 72 aljr 208, kirby j. noticed that in the arena of liability of public authority declaring the limits of the common law liability of .....

Chandan Metal Products (Pvt.) Limited Vs. Engineering Kamdar Union, Ba ...

Court : Gujarat

Reported in : (1976)GLR849; (1977)IILLJ27Guj

..... all these items by the industry and tabulated it. the board then compared the results of this study with what was available in other industries, such as coal mining industry, sugar, iron and steel, cement, and cotton textiles and came to an affirmative conclusion that the position has been much lower in all these industries ..... unit. in this connection the board readily accepted the suggestion of the employers' representatives to divide the country into four regions but adopted a little more conservative approach by dividing the country into five regions. the prevailing wage levels at different places and the cost of living at important centers were adopted as the ..... the structure, the board kept in view minimum emoluments of an unskilled worker as on march 1, 1968 in the case of iron and steel industry, coal mining industry, the recommendations of the first textile wage board and cement industry second wage board. it is thus unquestionably established that what the board recommended was a .....

The State of Meghalaya Vs. All Dimasa Students Union Hasao District Co ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... conserve the natural resources of the nation so that it may be used in the best interest of coming generations as well and for the country as a 3 whole.2. these appeals have been filed challenging various orders passed by national green tribunal wherein several directions were issued, measures to be taken to check and combat the unregulated coal mining ..... d, it was noted that the meghalaya state pollution control board in its report in september, 1997 had noted that unplanned and unscientific coal mining activities were taking place. this had achieved dangerous dimensions in the last two decades creating ecological disturbance and adverse environmental impacts. this showed ..... virtually affected district autonomous council from issues concerning administration of forests and lands within the exclusive jurisdiction of the council. the ban of coal mining has deprived the appellant from major source of revenue. under para 8 of sixth schedule, autonomous district council is entitled to share the .....

Oberoi Constructions Private Limited a Company Registered Under the Co ...

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : 2008(3)ALLMR546; 2008(3)BomCR408; (2008)110BOMLR951

..... estoppal' cannot be applied against the administration to compel it to allot the original plots because that would be permitting violation of statutes intended to conserve forest and restrictions imposed in the interest of general public and security of ntion under aircrafts act. doctrine of 'estoppal' cannot, therefore, be ..... the state being in degraded and over exploited state, which was adversely affecting the agriculture and agricultural population, so also for the purpose of conservating the material resources and protecting them from destruction and from over exploitation by the owners, that, it became necessary to enact the private forest ..... adversely affecting agriculture and agricultural population;and whereas it is, therefore, expedient to acquire private forests in the state of maharashtra generally for conserving their material resources and protecting them from destruction or over exploitation by their owners or promoting systematic and scientific development and management of .....