Hyderabad: Admitting that the present system of preparing environmental assessment report is flawed, Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said the Ministry would now seek third-party opinion to evaluate the projects.
He also informed that the Ministry would soon map the wetland areas in the country to formulate a better definition of the same.
The Minister said the present system of preparing environmental assessment report is flawed and the Ministry itself would take third party opinion on environment in projects like coal, power and construction of ports.
"We have done the satellite mapping of all wet lands in the country. We have wetland atlas of every state which will be released by month-end. So far we did not follow scientific approach of wetland management as in revenue record, wet land is recorded as waste land. All these are legacies of the past. We will clean up the system," the Minister told reporters on the sidelines of Green Landscape Summit-2011 organised by CII....
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05:43 PM, Mar 19, 2011
Bhubaneswar: Anti-Posco activists on Sunday dug up a road leading to the proposed plant site near Paradip protesting the visit by two senior officials for a joint survey. "We will prevent government officials and company staff from entering the proposed plant site. The villagers will stall any attempt to repair the road," Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) president Abhay Sahu told reporters. The protestors dug up the connecting road at...
12:16 AM, Feb 14, 2011
New Delhi: Pohang Steel Compnay (POSCO) has got conditional clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forest for its proposed steel plant at Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa. The ministry gave clearance for the steel plan with 28 additional conditions and for the POSCO port with 32 additional conditions as part of environment clearance. The ministry also sought assurance from the Orissa government for the compliance of the Forest...
01:50 PM, Jan 31, 2011
Karachi: The Pakistan team management is considering the option of promoting experienced all-rounder Abdul Razzaq to number three position in the batting order if the opening pair of Mohammad Hafeez and Ahmed Shahzad continue to fail in the World Cup. Well placed sources in the team have said that the proposal to send Razzaq up the order has been discussed but the management had decided to mull further on it...
06:41 PM, Dec 27, 2007
London: Australian spin legend Shane Warne has reportedly been dating married British actress Liz Hurley and the two were spotted cosying up at various hotels here. British tabloid News of the World reported Hurley, who wed Indian textile tycoon Arun Nayar in 2007, spent two nights with the former Aussie leg-spinner in his London hotel suite this week. Australian paper Herald Sun on Sunday claimed that the secret lovers were...
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