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The Karnataka High Court has held that prior environmental clearance is not needed for the widening work of the 82 kilometer stretch of National Highway 4-A in the State of Karnataka in terms of the EIA Notification dated August 22, 2013.
As per the said notification, prior EC is required for projects having a stretch of more than 100 kilometers. The Court made this declaration based on the materials on record which showed that no work was going on in the NH-4A stretch in Goa.
NH 4A passes from the State of Karnataka to the State of Goa. As per the affidavit filed by NHAI, widening work has not been undertaken in the stretch of NH 4A in the State of Goa from 84.121 km to 153.075 km. The project is only at DPR stage and no financial allocation has been made for the said work. It was specifically stated that no widening projects are in progress currently in the state of Goa.