According to the revised plans of these colonies, trees will be translocated/ transplanted instead of being cut, which the environmentalists feel will be a "failure".
NEW DELHI: Construction on areas between 20,000 and 50,000 square metres will not require environment clearance anymore, the Centre has said in its modified notification on the environment impact a
Porous borders: Four months after the ban kicked in, plastics are omnipresent. This is partly due to their import by wholesalers from States such as Maharashtra.
The recent draft notification on utilisation of fly ash for making bricks is poorly designed and, if implemented, will shut down the construction industry.
It was easy for Chandigarh to brush off CSE’s findings as a survey by an NGO. Had the civic body paid attention to the findings, city would not have slipped to this rank.