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Delhi High Court seeks Centre s stand on PIL challenging appointments to Expert Appraisal Committee on environment
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Delhi High Court seeks Centre s stand on PIL challenging appointments to Expert Appraisal Committee on environmentPTI
Last Updated: Dec 16, 2020, 01:57 PM IST
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In the plea filed through advocates Ritwick Dutta and Shristi Agnihotri, Mishra has challenged the ministry s July 10 notification constituting the EAC for environmental appraisal of thermal power and coal mining projects, claiming that no expert has been appointed to the 15-member committee.
ANI
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought a response from the Centre on a PIL challenging appointments made to the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) for assessing environmental impact of thermal power and coal mining projects. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan issued notices to the Environmen
Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Officials who headed power and mining corporations will now give green clearance to upcoming projects in these sectors, raising questions of propriety.
An independent director of a private mining company, former CMD of NHPC and former director (Technical) of NTPC are among those appointed to the Union environment ministry s expert appraisal committees (EACs) as non-official members with a mandate to assess damage to the environment by hydroelectric, thermal power and coal mining projects.
The appointments to the reconstituted EACs on Thermal Power and Coal Mining Projects and on River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects have invited criticism, for their chairpersons and members either having conflict of interest or lacking expertise in the field. Gururaj P Kundargi, former CMD, Manganese Ore Mining Limited (MOIL), is the chairperson of EAC on Thermal Power and Coal Mining Projects.