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Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalvaru and ors.Vs. State of Kerala and anr ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1973SC1461; (1973)4SCC225; [1973]SuppSCR1

..... future generation would invite the danger of extra constitutional changes of the constitution. "the state without the means of some change is without means of its conservation. without such means it might even risk the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve." burke : recollections ..... sequestered or confiscated "save in accordance with law" ibid (emphasis added). it also provided that the state shall own or control the key industries and services, mining resources, railways waterways, shipping and other means of public transport." ibid. according to the congress election manifesto of 1945, "the most vital and urgent of ..... legislative power. speaking about the legislative competence of the canadian parliament, viscount sankey l.c. speaking for the judicial committee of the privy council observed in british coal corporation v. the king [1935] a.c. 500 at p. 518 "indeed, in interpreting a constituent or organic statute such as the act (british .....

BaldwIn Vs. Fish and Game Comm'n of Montana

Court : US Supreme Court

..... challenge simply by asserting that the discrimination was a rational means for fostering a legitimate state interest. instead, even though an important state objective -- conservation -- was at stake, toomer held that a classification based on the fact of noncitizenship was constitutionally infirm "unless there is something to indicate that noncitizens ..... charges to be made on nonresidents based on both the added enforcement costs the presence of nonresident hunters imposes on montana and the state's conservation expenditures supported by resident-borne taxes. their position throughout this litigation has been that the higher fee extracted from nonresident elk hunters is not ..... increased more dramatically than the number of resident hunters during the past decade, ante at 436 u. s. 374 -375, thus somewhat overstates the putative conservation threat nonresident hunters pose for montana's wildlife. [ footnote 2/7 ] this restriction on the number of big game hunters allowed into montana is thus .....

Kewal Krishan Puri and ors. Vs. State of Punjab and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1980SC1008; (1980)1SCC416; [1979]3SCR1217

..... their domestic use; a crore for air spray; five crores to the punjab state electricity board, one crore given to markfed, one and a half crore to soil conservation department and yet nine crores were lying surplus with the various market committees. the figure may be exaggerated but are not quite groundless. we are merely quoting them for ..... of the traders. the literal meaning of the phrase 'quid pro quo' is 'one for the other' meaning thereby-'you charge the fee for the service.' service to the mining area, factory, market or marketing operations are services to the payer of the fee.57. mr. p.n. lekhi, under counsel for the state of haryana placed some new ..... that the leading principle has not basically undergone any change.16. in the case of the hingir-rampur coal co., ltd. and ors. v. the state of orissa and ors. : [1961]2scr537 the challenge was to the cess levied by the orissa mining areas development fund act, 1952. the petitioners' stand in the first instance was that the cess levied .....

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 .....

Fullilove Vs. Klutznick

Court : US Supreme Court

..... federal grant statutes have contained similar prohibitions against discrimination in particular funded activities. see, e.g., state and local fiscal assistance amendments of 1976, 31 u.s.c. 1242; energy conservation and production act, 42 u.s.c. 6870; housing and community development act of 1974, 42 u.s.c. 5309; comprehensive employment and training act of 1973, 29 u.s .....

Commonwealth Edison Co. Vs. Montana

Court : US Supreme Court

..... this ground, appellants may be assuming that the montana tax is, in fact, intended to reimburse the state for the cost of specific services furnished to the coal mining industry. alternatively, appellants could be arguing that a state's power to tax an activity connected to interstate commerce cannot exceed the value of the services specifically provided ..... that the montana tax substantially frustrates and impairs the policies. we cannot quarrel with appellants' recitation of federal statutes encouraging the use of coal. appellants correctly note that 2(6) of the energy policy and conservation act of 1975, 89 stat. 874, 42 u.s.c. 6201(6), declares that one of the act's purposes is ..... "to reduce the demand for petroleum products and natural gas through programs designed to provide greater availability and use of this nation's abundant coal resources." and 102(b)(3) .....

Reno Vs. Catholic Social Services, Inc.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... "prior to application of the regulation to a particular [company's] request for a variance." id., at 72, n. 12. and in pacific gas & elec. co. v. state energy resources conservation and development comm'n, 461 u. s. 190 (1983), the court permitted utilities to challenge a state law imposing a moratorium on the certification of nuclear power plants, even though .....

Indian Council for Enviro-legal Action Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and or ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 1996IIIAD(SC)641; JT1996(4)SC263; 1996(3)SCALE579; (1996)5SCC281; [1996]Supp1SCR507

..... coastal areas, as a pre-requisite to environmental management of the area. such a status report was required to be followed by a master plan identifying the areas required for conservation, preservation and development and other activities. a master plan so prepared would ensure a scientific assessment and development of the coastline and this would ultimately ensure the preservation and enforcement ..... , channels and ports and for prevention of sandbars and also except for tidal regulators, storm water drains and structures for prevention of salinity ingress and for sweet water recharge;ix) mining of sands, rocks and other substrata materials, except those rare minerals not available outside the crz areas;x) harvesting or drawal of ground water and construction of mechanisms therefore, within .....

Narmada Bachao Andolan Vs. Union of India and Others

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2000SC3751; (2001)1GLR434; 2000(7)SCALE34; (2000)10SCC664; [2000]Supp4SCR94

..... of mineral resources going under submergence.* alternative fuels to the labourers.* micro-climatic changes.* arrangements made for treatment of catchment area including soil conservation afforestation.* steps taken for preserving archaeological and historical monuments.* proper land use*actions taken by government of maharashtra in pursuance of dewan committee ..... will consist of experts in the following disciplines:(i) eco-system management (ii) air/water pollution control(iii) water resource management(iv) flora/fauna conservation and management(v) land use planning(vi) social sciences/rehabilitation(vii) project appraisal(viii) ecology(ix) environmental health(x) subject area specialists(xi ..... the sites were inspected by engineers and geologists who recommended detailed investigation for seven projects. thereafter in 1948, the central ministry of works, mines & power appointed an ad-hoc committee headed by shri a.n. khosla, chairman, cwinc to study the projects and to recommend the .....

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 .....