National Policy On Environmental Impact Assessment Soon: Jairam Ramesh
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 6,
June 2011
Jairam said that under the new system, the ministry would take the lead in commissioning environmental impact assessments of projects in designated ecologically fragile areas like wetlands or close to forest areas or of integrated projects like mining-cum-power-cum-port projects.
The minister noted that under the existing system, the proponents of the projects themselves do the environmental impact assessment.
He stressed the need for cumulative impact assessment in areas with a huge concentration of industrial projects like in Nellore, Srikakulamand Kakinada (all in Andhra Pradesh).
The ministry is undertaking a cumulative impact assessment of all power projects in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra and of all hydel projects in Uttarakhand, he said. Read the full report here.
Source: DNA, Hyderabad.
