Is it a mandatory Requirement to obtain environmental clearance for stand alone railway line to cater the needs of industry. Can someone educate me in this regard ?
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If we understand the meaning of infrastructural projects any conveyance line is understood to be covered. Be it road, airport, harbour, canal, pipeline and for this case it is railway line. There cannot be any discrimination only because the Govt. is expected to be the nodal agency.
Simili is crude and may sound scatological but, a urinal in an airport functionally does not differ from Sulabh only because the operator or owner is different.
All railwaylines which are stand alone projects are out side EC domain as per indian law, except it is a part of comprehensive project like merry go round etc. But it requires FC approvals. Pl refer to Konkan rialway judgement, which explicitly state this.
Prof Dr V N Sivasankara Pillai said: