The government is looking to free up the environmental clearance process for strategic nuclear power projects from the purview of the union environment ministry in view of the high confidentiality and national security interests involved.
Sonali Huria | The Leaflet On December 15, 2018, a public hearing got underway amid strong armed police presence and public protests for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the proposed extension of the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant (Units 5 and 6). While in-principle approval for the setting up of 2×700 MWe PHWRsRead More
Pranav Narsaria | Down to Earth While the entire world is coping with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, our government is trying its best to finalise that the Draft Environmental Impact Assessment Notification 2020 (Draft EIA 2020). In this article, I will attempt to show the sheer disregard the governmentRead More
Courtesy: The Week Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s statements on Sunday have raked up many concerns surrounding the draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) 2020 notification. “The EIA 2020 draft is a disaster. It seeks to silence the voice of communities who will be directly impacted by the environmental degradation it unleashes.Read More
Being positioned as a future alternative to Jawaharlal Nehru Port or JNPT in Mumbai, the Gujarat government has been planning to develop a port in Valsad since 1997.
Arsh Rampal | The Leaflet
The Constitution establishes representative government in India. The scope of public participation has accordingly gradually increased. In a participative democracy, the public is involved in government decision-making. Information disclosure is another norm of such a system. However, recent trends highlight attempts to inhibit the participatory element of governance.
Ayaskant Das | The Wire Science
The Government Is Effectively Helping Industries Bypass Environmental Safeguards
Gaurav Sarkar | Mid-Day
Civil society organisations, individuals write to union environment minister, seek transparency in the finalisation of draft EIA notification 2020
Even the COVID-19 pandemic has been no deterrent for the current government which continued diluting environmental clearance norms to promote ‘ease of doing business’.
‘Strategic’ nuclear plants may no longer require green clearance 
Waste-to-Energy project expansion in the Aravallis and a farcical public hearing 
Billions of years of evolutionary history, including of Western Ghats at risk 
Draft EIA 2020 will toll the death knell for Western Ghats, say experts 
Twin-tunnel link roads infrastructural project near Mumbai exempt from precautionary EIA study 
Endangered Landscapes