Development / Assam

GUWAHATI, July 26: The state pollution control board has served notices to the Oil and Natural Gas Commission asking for temporary closure of drilling operations at three cluster drilling sites of ONGC at Rudrasagar in Sibsagar district for not conforming to the pollution control norms. The board has also stopped issuing no-objection certificates to all ONGC drilling sites at Geleki and Rudrasagar oil fields, board sources here said. The PCB steps were initiated after the visit of the board member secretary to the ONGC cluster drilling sites in the first week of July. He found that the...

Guwahati, July 11: The Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB) has allegedly signed the Lease, Rehabilitation, Operation and Transfer (LROT) agreement on the Bongaigaon Thermal Power Station (BTPS) with the US-based Ogden Energy Incorporate, blocking all ways for preventing the privatisation of BTPS, even as an impression has been given by the State Government that efforts are on to find out a judicious solution to the issue of the privatisation of this public sector coal-based power station. The state government has also been holding parleys with the All Bodo Students' Union (ABSU) and the Joint...