Union Budget 2011: Govt To Sort Out Environmental Issues In Time-Bound Manner
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 3,
March 2011
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee while presenting the Budget said a Group of Ministers (GoMs) would suggest changes in existing statutes, rules, regulations, guidelines and make its recommendations in a time-bound manner for reconciliation of environmental issues related to infrastructure and mining.
The GoM, headed by the Finance Minister himself, has been set up to suggest ways of the necessary changes in existing environmental rules and asked to finalise its recommendations within two months.
The Coal Ministry and Ministry of Environment and Forest have been at the loggerheads over various issues after the latter last year classified 203 coal blocks under 'no go' area, impacting 660 million tonne coal production in a year. Read the full report here.
Source: Economic Times, New Delhi.
