Environment Clearances

According to an office memorandum issued by the ministry on January 17, a meeting chaired by the Cabinet Secretary on November 13 last year on the action taken on "Ease of Doing Business" discussed the issue of "ranking of states based on the time taken in according clearances".

NDA not different from UPA in environmental nods: CSE

Sunita Narain of CSE, however, is happy that the government did not open floodgates of environmental nods as was feared.

Govt may set up UMPPs on sites of existing power plants

Top sources have told CNBC-TV18 that the government is looking to set up ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) which have capacity of 4000 MW at sites where there are inefficient or old plants – for more than 25-30 years.

CII seeks national redressal board to clear infra hurdles

To clear bottlenecks in the infrastructure sector, industry body CII on Friday suggested a slew of measures, including setting up of a national infrastructure redressal board and a national task force for providing environment clearances.

CIL operates 239 mines without environmental clearance: CAG

State-run Coal India (CIL) is running 239 mines in its seven coal producing subsidiaries without environment clearances, the country's accounting watchdog CAG said today.

PM postpones meeting on green clearances for projects

A meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today to resolve the inter-ministerial differences relating to environment clearances for coal and power projects has been postponed.