Environment Clearance | 20 Aug 2019

The government is working to limit procedural delays to reduce the time for environment clearance to 60 days.

Background

• To meet the ambitious goal of $5-trillion economy, the government intends to increase investment by fastening the process of environmental clearances to businesses.
• As claimed by Environment Minister, environmental clearances usually took around 640 days before 2014, which has been reduced to 108 days.

Environmental Clearance Process

• The process of granting of environment clearance includes:
  
  • Specifying Terms of Reference(ToR).
  • Preparing Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report.
  • Holding Public Consultation.