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Panel for ban on mining in 37 % of Western Ghats [1]

Identifying 37 per cent — or about 60,000 square km — of the Western Ghats as ecologically sensitive, a high-level panel has recommended that “destructive” activities such as mining, thermal power, major construction, and some hydel power projects should not be allowed there.

However, the panel was silent about any restrictions in the remaining 96,000 square km area, thus creating the perception that it had diluted earlier recommendations that the entire Ghats should be declared as an eco-sensitive area.

Publication Date: 
18/04/2013
Priscilla Jebaraj [2]
Hindu (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Western Ghats [4], Mining [5], Thermal Power Plants [6], Hydroelectricity [7], Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF) [8], Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) [9], Biodiversity [10], Sunita Narain [11], CSE [12], Ecosystems [13], Ecology [14], TERI [15]
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