The ministry is expected to pass its order regarding Lavasa Corporation in a week, according to the indications given by the MoEF lawyer in the Bombay High Court on Monday. The hearing was with regard to PILs filed by several groups against the Lavasa project.
Jayanti Natarajan, the new environment minister, had in a written answer to a question in the Rajya Sabha on August 9, 2011 said that the expert appraisal committee had recommended five pre-conditions before issuing environmental clearance.
The MoEF pre-conditions were that the Maharashtra government had to take action against Lavasa for the violations, then there had to be a written consideration by Lavasa not to repeat violations, it had to demarcate site between state government and forest land, 5% of project cost had to go towards CSR and Lavasa had to set environment restoration fund. Read the full report here.
Source: Geeta Nair, Financial Express, Pune.
