Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Announcing the decision to give wildlife clearance to NH7, environment minister Prakash Javadekar said, "The process of four-laning NH7 has moved ahead. Tiger The petitioner in the case has argued that the project will hit Kanha-Pench tiger corridor PTI After repeatedly submitting before National Green Tribunal (NGT) and through its …
The National Board for Wildlife (NBW), the apex body which clears projects around protected areas, has okayed 81 proposals in different parts of the country in the past seven months. More than 50% of such clearances, incidentally, were for projects in four BJP-ruled states. Though all the projects got clearances …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on clearance of projects, 28/07/2015. National Board for Wildlife in its Standing Committee meetings cleared 81 projects in the past six months, i.e., from January 2015 till date. The details of the project state/UT wise are enclosed as Annexure. Out of the projects cleared 9 …
This report tabled by Parliamentary standing committee on Science and Technology in the Rajya Sabha has asked the Ministry of Enviroment and Forests to appoint a new high-level committee to review environmental laws Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests present this Two Hundred and Sixty-third …
NAGPUR: The ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC) has withdrawn the office memorandum that had made getting environment clearance (EC) for development projects within 10km from national parks and wildlife sanctuaries easier by not going to the state wildlife boards (SWBs). Now even the projects falling within 10km …
Twelve iron ore renewed mining leases will not to be granted wildlife clearance for being located in the eco-sensitive zone of one kilometer of wildlife sanctuaries (WLS) and a national park. Though, the environment clearances (EC) of these mines are still kept in abeyance by the Ministry of Environment and …
The Environment Ministry will hold a brainstorming session here on April 25 to discuss matters related to the process of issuing environmental clearance in the country. The one-day workshop on 'Environmental Impact Assessment: Challenges in India and Way Forward' will be held at Vigyan Bhavan here on April 25. "The …
The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has closed its single window project clearance system and reverted back to the 2009 procedure that meant obtaining environmental, forest and wildlife clearances separately. It implies there will be no ease of doing business if a project falls within 10km of protected …
Taking strong exception to the statement of Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar that ‘Apex Court should stay out of wild life clearance for speeding up infrastructural projects’, senior Congress leader Saifuddin Soz Wednesday said it seems Javadekar has taken the BJP led coalition’s ‘development concerns’ to his heart, forgetting that …
The Environment Ministry has approached the Supreme Court to free the process of wildlife clearance for infrastructure projects from the apex court’s monitoring, citing delays due to the “extremely convoluted and time consuming” procedure. The ministry’s Interlocutory Application (IA), signed on April 9, comes nine months after it was first …
A set of standard Terms of Reference (ToR) is on the anvil for expediting green clearances to sector specific projects in the forthcoming two-day meet of Environment Ministers and Chief Ministers from Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to launch the standard ToRs during the meeting at Vigyan Bhawan. …
Nagpur: The ministry of environment, forest and climate change seems to be engaged in giving a big push to projects falling within 10km of protected areas (PAs). After a gap of four months, the 32nd meeting of the standing committee of National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) will be held on …
A high level committee headed by former cabinet secretary T S R Subramanian, set up to review the country's green laws and the procedures followed by the ministry of environment, forests and climate change, has suggested appropriate amendments to align them with the government's economic development agenda. In its report …
