The environment ministry is likely to decide tomorrow whether or not to allow construction of the Rs 3,000-crore Lavasa hill city project in Pune, which has been embroiled in a controversy for allegedly violating green norms.

While social groups and residents are crying hoarse against mega housing projects citing basic infrastructure in villages, it is reportedly learnt that a leading real-estate developer has launched a Rs 300-crore high-end project in Goa.
According to Sunday

Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is a man in a green hurry. On November 27, he dispatched a special official messenger from Delhi to serve a showcause notice to Lavasa City's promoters to stop construction for violating the Environment Act.

The 25,000-acre Lavasa in the Sahayadri mountains near Pune is independent India's first planned hill town.

NEW DELHI: The Environment Ministry has given Lavasa Corporation one more day to submit maps and other data regarding its hill city project near Pune, which failed to get a green clearance from the central government.

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday stayed till December 16 the order of status quo issued last month by ministry of environment and forests ( MoEF) against Lavasa Corporation and its ongoing construction of a township across 2000 hectare in Maharashtra.

The HC said that the ministry's directive to stop work without giving a proper hearing was `drastic'
The Bombay high court on Tuesday stayed the Union ministry of environment

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday stayed the status quo notice issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to the Lavasa Corporation, asking it to stop construction on its 5,000-hectare township site.

A Division Bench of Justices N.D. Deshpande and D.K.

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday stayed the showcause notice sent to Lavasa Corporation by the environment ministry to stop construction at its hill-city project in Mulshi and Velha talukas of Pune.

The high court here, in an interim order today, stayed the Union ministry of environment and forests

Pune Social activist Anna Hazare has asked the Lavasa Corporation to give an undertaking to the chief minister stating that water supply to Pune city will not be hurt in the long run by its hill city project, where water from the Varasgaon dam is being diverted.

Hazare, here to attend a hearing in the Pune district and sessions court in a defamation case he had filed against former minister Sur