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Central institute’s report backs concerns of activists, asks ministry to redo draft EIA notification 2020.
Editor's note: Weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown last March to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Indians were still trying to grapple with its impact on their lives and livelihood, the environment ministry went ahead and published the draft environment impact assessment notification 2020. This was then followed by the ministry doing its utmost to hastily implement the drastic changes proposed in the draft, by reducing the legally mandated public consultations to a token exercise. Despite the all-round pandemic-induced stupor, public outrage—which found reflection in a flood of over two million emails and letters from concerned citizens to the government—resulted. As did directions from the Karnataka and Delhi high courts to the ministry to conduct wider public consultations. All this forced the environment ministry to hit the pause button on its plans. But it never fully complied with the orders of both courts to conduct public consultations in all of India’s 22 official languages. Now, a year down the line, when much of the heat around the issue has dissipated, there is something that’ll give …
Central institute’s report backs concerns of activists, asks ministry to redo draft EIA notification 2020.
Editor's note: Weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown last March to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Indians were still trying to grapple with its impact on their lives and livelihood, the environment ministry went ahead and published the draft environment impact assessment notification 2020. This was then followed by the ministry doing its utmost to hastily implement the drastic changes proposed in the draft, by reducing the legally mandated public consultations to a token exercise. Despite the all-round pandemic-induced stupor, public outrage—which found reflection in a flood of over two million emails and letters from concerned citizens to the government—resulted. As did directions from the Karnataka and Delhi high courts to the ministry to conduct wider public consultations. All this forced the environment ministry to hit the pause button on its plans. But it never fully complied with the orders of both courts to conduct public consultations in all of India’s 22 official languages. Now, a year down the line, when much of the heat around the issue has dissipated, there is something that’ll give …
Chinese diplomats to India are saying all the right things for Indian ears, but Beijing’s policy actions are moving in the opposite direction.
The country's fighter jet roadmap rests on imported propulsion, leaving its military plans hostage to cost shocks, delays and geopolitics.
Fiscal discipline holds on paper, but the number is propped up by higher borrowing and revenue sources that are far from stable.
Chinese diplomats to India are saying all the right things for Indian ears, but Beijing’s policy actions are moving in the opposite direction.
The country's fighter jet roadmap rests on imported propulsion, leaving its military plans hostage to cost shocks, delays and geopolitics.
Fiscal discipline holds on paper, but the number is propped up by higher borrowing and revenue sources that are far from stable.
