The woes of investors in highway projects don't seem to end. The new guidelines issued by the environment ministry, allowing work on non-forest land while clearance for projects involving diversion of forest land is pending, are cumbersome and would not facilitate investments, developers feel.
According to official sources, the developers have written to the environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan, roads minister CP Joshi, NHAI Chairman RP Singh and the department of economic affairs in finance ministry, stating that the condition that in order to begin work in non-forest land, the user agency must explicitly provide for a “technically feasible alternative alignment” for segments that fall in forest land is too difficult to be complied with.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/forest-ministry%E2%80%99s-moves-hasten-road-projects-futile-developers
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/timsy-jaipuria
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/financial-express-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/highways
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-shipping-road-transport-and-highways
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-highways-authority-india-nhai
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/forest-clearance
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-act-1980
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-acquisition
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/roads
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/environment-clearance-ec
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment
