New Delhi: Rejection of big-ticket mining proposals such as Vedanta has been a rare exception in the UPA’s nine-year reign. The UPA has given clearance to cut a whopping six lakh hectares of forests — of these more than 2.5 lakh hectares were for mining — since it came to power in mid-2004.
The data, accessed by TOI from the environment ministry, shows that the inprinciple and final clearances add up to the combined area of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore, or roughly the equivalent of three large tiger reserves.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/%E2%80%9904-6l-hectares-forest-cleared-mining
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/nitin-sethi-0
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/times-india-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mining
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vedanta-aluminium
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/forest-clearance
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-act-1980
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mineral-based-indsutry
