It was with great pride that the Union ministry of environment’s achievement to reduce the time taken for environmental approvals was reported in business papers. The claim states that the ministry, for the past 20 months, has considerably reduced the time taken for approvals following environment impact assessments and those for the use of forest land. This has been coupled with other reported statements that the ministry will approve industrial, infrastructure and mining projects within 100 days!
For more than a decade, two regulatory procedures housed in the environment ministry have been at the heart of the. . .
