Hyderabad: Environmental clearances to be issued online
In a move which will be widely welcomed by the investors in Hyderabad, the Project Monitoring Group (PMG) said in an announcement made on Friday that environmental clearances will be issued online in a few weeks.
According to the PMG’s announcement, ‘green’ permits in Hyderabad will go online in less than one month from now. The move will pave the way for the acceleration of stuck-up projects.
With regard to the forthcoming implementation of the move to issue environmental clearances online, PMG Chairman Anil Swarup said on Friday that PMG has already launched the web-based forest clearances system, and is now set to a similar online-permits system for environmental clearances.
Swarup further revealed that PMG – which monitors projects under Cabinet Committee on Investment – will launch “web-based system for environmental clearances on September 1, for the mining clearances on November 1 and for all the coal related clearances in the fourth quarter of the current financial year.”
Pointing to the fact that delays in environmental clearances have hindered the progress of several projects, Swarup said that nearly 44 percent projects are currently stalled because of environmental issues, while a number of other projects have been halted because of lack of coal linkages.
Source – Deccan Chronicle
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