By the end of next year, both projects and financial facilitation for them should reach a stage where it's smooth sailing for infrastructure sectors, if Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India, has his way.

The Environment Ministry has refused the Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) clearance to Chennai Petroleum Corporation's (CPCL) crude pipeline project, citing threat to habitation.

GAIL has stalled pipeline projects worth Rs 3,000 crore due to land acquisition problems.The state-run company has sought the Environment Ministry’s help is resolving the issue.

If Jairam Ramesh was flexible on the Kyoto Protocol and tough on industries in an endeavour to build overall responsibility towards the environment, his successor Jayanthi Natarajan seems to have a clear brief to tighten the nation’s stand on that issue as she talked tough at her first meeting on climate change issues with 150 environment ministers in South Africa.

As a company, Essar commenced its construction activity from ports and jetties way back in 1969; they started with the Chennai Port and slowly expanded into marine construction, and moved on to Mumbai in the late 1970s.

Water supply and waste water management are the two major areas where the country has to step up its efforts to provide its citizens with clean drinking water and safe sewage disposal. To achieve this, increased private participation is needed.

Power generation projects with investments to the tune of Rs 75,000 crore are facing a threat—an acute shortage of domestic coal.

The union environment ministry has announced new guidelines to create eco-sensitive zones (ESZs) around protected areas.

Political expediency seems to be hijacking our land acquisition laws. On the one hand, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat have declared that acquisition can only occur by consent, and the Land Acquisition Act will not be invoked.