Amruta Byatnal

Pune:

Amruta Byatnal

Pune: Chairman of the expert team of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) Naresh Dayal said on Friday that prima facie there was no large-scale destruction of forest land for the controversial hill city project, Lavasa.

Speaking to journalists on the third and final day of inspection, Mr.

Workers in the construction industry are in a state of unemployment as a result of the ban on sand transport in the district.

Deadlock: The Ambedkar Bhavan in Chikkaballapur is still far from complete.

Amruta Byatnal

Pune: The Ministry of Environment and Forests team that is visiting Lavasa, the controversial hill city near Pune, was greeted by two opposing groups on the first day in the city.

Nistula Hebbar

Union minister for environment Jairam Ramesh, just back from the Cancun summit, tells FE

The Lavasa Hill Township and its holding company HCC are caught in a legal logjam. Following the 25 November show-cause notice and stop-work order from the environment ministry (MoEF), work at the township site near Pune has come to a halt. According to the company, 10,000 workmen are sitting idle.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday upheld the ministry of environment and forests

The Bombay High Court (HC) today declined to interfere with a directive of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) asking Lavasa Corporation to stop construction at its multi-crore township in Pune district, pending hearing of a showcause notice.

The HC asked MoEF to take, by January 10, a final decision on the notice issued to the company.

It also directed before taking the dec

Shalini Nair
THE PROJECT
Lavasa is a hill city being developed by Lavasa Corporation Ltd sprawled over 25,000 acres in the Sahyadri Hills of the Western Ghats, near Pune. It will comprise five towns (Dasve, Mugaon, Dhamanohol, Sakhari-Wadavali and a Central Business District) with apartments and villas facing the valley and the lake, and a golf course.

UMESH MOHITE
MUMBA
A division benc of the Bombay high court hearing the petition filed b the Lavasa Corporatio Limited, has asked the min istry of environment an forest (MoEF) to conside allowing Hindustan Con struction's Lavasa unit t resume part of constructio activity.