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EIA receives 2 million comments, Centre directs its own agency to vet

Feedback mostly to roll back EIA process, several MPs protest too

ENVIRONMENT, eia, Environment impact assessment, forest

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The draft EIA notification 2020, proposed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in March, will replace the last notification dating back to 2006

Shine Jacob Shreya Jai New Delhi

4 min read Last Updated : Aug 12 2020 | 12:17 AM IST

The draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) policy, facing opposition from many quarters, received a record 2 million comments as the deadline closed on Tuesday.

Though there have been several petitions for extending the deadline, government sources have denied an extension. National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), which is controlled by the Centre, will compile and streamline the suggestions. Following this, the final draft will be placed before a committee headed by S R Wate — former director of NEERI — for scrutiny, during which experts from various sectors will participate, said a senior official.

According to the Environment Protection Act,

Topics : environmental clearance Environment ministry

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