Mining Units In Western Ghats Face Green Panel Hurdle

The report was submitted to the Environment Ministry in August last year but made public only on Wednesday after court intervention.

The Jayanthi Natarajan-led ministry has said it has not accepted the study.

In a reply to an RTI application, the ministry cited economic and scientific interests as reason for not making the report public. It had gone to the extent of approaching the Delhi High Court against the central information commission order of making the report public. Read the full report here.

Source: by Pratul Sharma, Mail Today, India Today, New Delhi.