'Green Hurdles For 16 Coal Blocks Cleared'

Jairam Ramesh had not taken a decision by the evening but he wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh apprising him of the meeting between the two. The environment ministry had created a Comprehensive Environment Pollution Index - a measure of overall pollution intensity in an area. Ramesh had put a moratorium on any new industrial activity in areas where the CEPI was breaching a certain level.

Jaiswal, in an interview to NDTV, claimed that Ramesh had agreed to up the limit for such a moratorium that would allow 16 of Coal India Limited's projects in seven blocks to take off. Read the full report here.

Source: Times News Network, New Delhi.