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 Wildlife board discovers it has no say [1]

though touted as a statutory body with teeth, the National Wildlife Board (nwb) was tamed by Union minister for environment and forests T R Baalu at its very first meeting in New Delhi on October 15. Baalu allegedly thrust upon the board a decision to drastically reduce the compensation money the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ongc) was required to pay to carry out exploration in Rajasthan's Desert National Park

Publication Date: 
14/11/2003
Nitin Sethi [2]
Down to Earth [3]
Tags:
Natural Gas [4], Oil Exploration [5], Legislation [6], Supreme Court [7], Political Parties [8], India [9], Rajasthan [10], Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) [11]

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