KOLKATA (miningweekly.com) - India’s Forest and Environment Ministry would start an initiative to map forest regions across the country in order to identify ‘inviolate areas’ where mining would be banned.
“We are putting together all government notifications and circulars that have been issued over the years on forest and environment clearances into a single document and this along with the forest map will bring clarity and transparency to our clearance policy,” Forest and Environment Minister Jayanti Natarajan said after a meeting with independent power producers whose projects have been stalled by denial of forest and environmental clearances for captive coal mining. Read more here...
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