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Delhi HC issues notice to Centre for notification on environmental appraisal of power, mining projects

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Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice on a petition challenging Centres notification constituting the Expert Appraisal Committee(EAC) for environmental appraisal of thermal power and coal mining projects. The bench of Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan after hearing the submission of petitioners Advocate Ritwick Dutta ,issued notice to the respondents and slated the matter for January22,2021. According to the petitioner Manoj Mishra, a retired Indian Forest Services officer,Union of India through Ministry of Environment ,Forests and Climate Change on July and coal mining projects under the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification,2006.

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