26.4.14

SC on Green Super Regulator

The Supreme Court has given 10 days to the Centre to set up a national regulator that would take up comprehensive and independent environmental impact assessment (EIA) of projects, enforce conditions for approvals and impose penalties on polluters.
Given the lack of transparency and allegations of corruption in grant of green nod to projects, which either drag for years or get it at lightning speed, the green bench headed by Justice A K Patnaik had on January 6 accused the government of sleeping over the court’s 2011 directive for setting up a national environmental regulator. On Monday, the bench comprising Justices Patnaik, S S Nijjar and F M I Kalifulla refused to entertain an application by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) seeking six more months to set up the super regulator. 

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