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The hundreds of crores homebuyers have invested in Noida are safe. The Centre’s draft of the redrawn eco-sensitive zone around the Okhla bird sanctuary doesn’t affect any realty project in the area, a highly placed official in the UP government said on Sunday. T The draft proposes a no-construction zone extending 1.27km from the sanctuary [...] Continue Reading »
For highways projects in India’s border states, a model green checklist is being reviewed by the Environment Ministry. The move is being undertaken with the aim of expediting the environmental clearance process for infrastructure projects in the border areas of the country. A statutory expert appraisal committee reviewing border infrastructure projects has prepared a checklist [...] Continue Reading »
The government on Thursday decided to institute a committee of four ministers to prepare a framework for creating an independent environmental regulatory authority to monitor the compliance of green laws in the country. Environment minister Prakash Javadekar, transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, power minister Piyush Goyal, and chemicals and fertilisers minister Ananth Kumar have been told [...] Continue Reading »
Amid speculation that the environment ministry is planning to make NGT a mere advisory body, lawyers, petitioners and even common people are concerned about losing an important instrument of ensuring environmental justice. After the Centre’s decision to replace the planning commission, the ministry may amend National Green Tribunal Act 2010 to strip NGT of its [...] Continue Reading »
That first movers don’t always have an advantage is something Lavasa Corp has painfully discovered. The company, a subsidiary of Ajit Gulabchand’s Hindustan Construction Company, had announced plans to build a smart city, arguably India’s first, over a decade ago. Lavasa, about 60 km from Pune, was planned as an integrated hill city, where residents [...] Continue Reading »
The clauses in the relevant laws for accelerating clearances for road projects will apparently be relaxed by the Environment Ministry, on the instructions of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). The PMO has also told the Road Ministry an amendment can be made in the National Highways Act to ensure that the compensation given to the [...] Continue Reading »
There are measures taken to reduce the land degradation and the environment and forest minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said that India would be ‘land degradation neutral’ by the year 2030. This policy declaration aims to protect the land to combat the challenge of food security. In order to protect the nature and give a [...] Continue Reading »
The National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) has asked Haryana government to address environmental concerns raised by various quarters in the state’s sub-regional plan, with the aim of preventing construction activities in Aravalis including Mangarbani forest. To demarcate the Mangarbani grove as a ‘no-construction zone’ and to limit construction to 0.5 per cent in the [...] Continue Reading »
The environment ministry has suggested that Uttar Pradesh should increase its forest cover by 500% and Haryana by 400%, in a bid to increase the green cover in the National Capital Region. Over the years, the NCR has witnessed a vast increase in population and depletion of green areas. The ministry of environment and forest [...] Continue Reading »
Starting July 1, 2014 getting environmental and forest clearances for large infrastructure projects could just be a click away with the government announcing launch of a portal, for such clearances. In recent years delay in green clearances has been one of the major concerns for industry. “On the website one will have to upload all [...] Continue Reading »
