Sharma To Make A Case For Industry's Green Worries
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 7,
July 2011
Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma is meeting environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan tomorrow to discuss India Inc's concerns over a number of stalled projects due to environmental issues.
Sharma is also expected to take up some of the environment-related issues under the draft National Manufacturing Policy in view of the environment ministry's objections to some of the provisions earlier.
Apparently, the Indian industry had objected to the environment ministry's intervention in some of the big-ticket projects that had halted the government's development agenda and also resulted in declining foreign direct investments, officials in the commerce ministry told Business Standard. Read the full report here.
Source: Nayanima Basu, Business Standard, New Delhi.
