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Water Conflict Forum, India: EIA 2020 exacerbates infirmities of India’s green clearance system

Water Conflict Forum, India: EIA 2020 exacerbates infirmities of India’s green clearance system

August 25, 2021 at 1:14 pm 0 comments
EIA 2020: Undermining India’s biodiversity and climate goals

EIA 2020: Undermining India’s biodiversity and climate goals

August 24, 2021 at 3:51 pm 0 comments

Anurag Mishra, Neha Mohanbabu, Krishna Anujan | Down to Earth

The proposal to weaken policies for environmental protection with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) draft, 2020, has resulted in widespread public concern

How EIA 2020 watered down EIA 2006

How EIA 2020 watered down EIA 2006

August 23, 2021 at 8:04 am 0 comments

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

Why India’s new EIA 2020 draft is deeply problematic

Why India’s new EIA 2020 draft is deeply problematic

August 21, 2021 at 8:02 am 0 comments

Why India’s new EIA 2020 draft is deeply problematic

Centre’s amnesty for green violators

Centre’s amnesty for green violators

August 20, 2021 at 3:16 pm 0 comments

Jayashree Nandi | Hindustan Times The union environment ministry has put together an amnesty scheme for infrastructure and industrial projects that have violated environmental clearance norms. The standard operating procedure (SOP) laid out by the ministry in an office memorandum dated July 7 states that projects that don’t have priorRead More

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Regularising Green Violators Legally Untenable

August 20, 2021 at 2:55 pm 0 comments

Nikhil Ghanekar | IndiaSpend New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) on July 7, 2021 issued new standard operating procedures (SOPs) for dealing with cases of industrial projects that are operating without prior environmental clearance under the Environment Impact Notification (EIA), 2006. Action will be taken against projects that doRead More

How the Centre has undermined democratic norms including on green clearance

How the Centre has undermined democratic norms including on green clearance

August 10, 2021 at 3:47 pm 0 comments

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.

Aiding Industries Bypass Environmental Safeguards

Aiding Industries Bypass Environmental Safeguards

July 29, 2021 at 4:25 pm 0 comments

Ayaskant Das | The Wire Science

The Government Is Effectively Helping Industries Bypass Environmental Safeguards

Integrating ‘climate change’ concerns into EIAs

Integrating ‘climate change’ concerns into EIAs

July 21, 2021 at 8:19 pm 0 comments

Courtesy: IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature

Civil society groups urge Centre to cease ‘backdoor’ implementation of draft EIA 2020

Civil society groups urge Centre to cease ‘backdoor’ implementation of draft EIA 2020

June 23, 2021 at 4:17 am 0 comments

Gaurav Sarkar | Mid-Day

Civil society organisations, individuals write to union environment minister, seek transparency in the finalisation of draft EIA notification 2020