Anita Joshua

NEW DELHI: The Union Environment and Forests Ministry has decided to revert to the previous limit of 20,000 sq.m. for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) clearance for construction projects.

An EIA notification of 2006 increased the threshold limit to 50,000 sq.m. from 20,000 sq.m. and 100 hectares from 50 hectares for area development projects.
Earlier regime

Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has committed that the public sector hydro and thermal power projects would be converted into instruments of social development with the new policy of the Centre to allocate one percent of the total project cost for rehabilitation and development of the persons affected by the projects.

Accepts panel report that self-certification is not enough and expansion impacts need scrutiny.

An amendment proposed in the Environment Impact Assessment rules and opposed staunchly by green groups will now be carried out only in a very diluted form, taking care of the concerns expressed by environmentalists.

RANDEEP RAMESH

Grim forecast: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had warned that Himalayan glaciers were receding at an alarming rate.

A leading climate scientist recently accused India

New Delhi: The Union environment and forest ministry has decided to not allow several amendments to the existing Environment Impact Assessment regulations (EIA) that would have made green clearances redundant or weakened in many cases.

Guwahati: Union Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh openly clashed over a government-backed report on glacier melting as the former expressed serious displeasure over it.

Debabrata Mohanty

Probing allegations of a multi-crore mining scandal, the Orissa government has ordered suspension of work at 64 iron ore, manganese ore and limestone mines whose operators have failed to provide proof of legal mining activity.

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Mahim Pratap Singh

BHOPAL: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has written to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan informing him of

Manas Dasgupta

GANDHINAGAR: The indefinite wait of the controversial ship