applicability of eia notification for elevated corridors

Posted by Chitra Rajesh on May 20, 2010 at 4:51am

URGENT - Can anyone please clarify

this is for a project having stretches of elevated corridors and at grade roads. this falls neither under state highways nor national. can this be covered under section 8 of the notification - construction projects with facilities open to sky

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  • G UDAYABHASKAR October 6, 2010 at 4:45am
    Dear Chitra

    sorry being late. by now you might have applied for EC also. By interpretation of EIA notification schedule-1 8(a) , your project require EC as the facilities open to sky , if the activity area more than 20000 Sq.M. Thsi is the way MOEF interpret. I agre with Prof Pillai that the main contention on deciding EIA should not be by law alone but by the anticipated impacts. thsi some how never percolated in India due to Failure of MOEF acting as technical body and tend to behave as technical babus.
  • Muhammad Rafi Malik August 10, 2010 at 1:07am
    I do agree with Jomcy.The explanation given by him in itself is quiet explanatory.Regarding Road projects,there are flaws in EIA Notification.It requires a lot of constrctive amendments.2006 EIA Notification is silent on some of the road projects and their categorisation.

    JOMCY MATHEW said:
    If your project road is not a national highway, state highway or an expressway, it does not require environmental clearance under the EIA Notification. MoEF is bothered only about the name of the road and not about the environmental impact. This is a major flaw in the EIA notification. Even though it was pointed out by several people, it was not addressed in the 2009 amendment also. They simply added the word Express Ways in the 2009 amendment.
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  • Chitra Rajesh May 25, 2010 at 1:03am
    Thank u very much, Sir.

    Prof Dr V N Sivasankara Pillai said:
    It falls under construction projects. It uses land and augments traffic facilities. Call it by highway, state road, or any other name, it is built on land. Then what should we do if it is a tunnel connecting to points on land? What is more important is "the impact". EIA asses the baseline, predicts the impacts and proposes mitigation measures. More components of EM are added as needed. Since Indian judiciary proceeds by inclusion of literal listing, we can take the matter to the court and delay the process. Any activity, whether listed or not, that impacts the environment adversely shall be subjected to EIA. A responsible proponent can even submit a "No-imapct" statement before the authority before proceeding with a massive project, irrespective of whether it is listed in the EIA notification.
    applicability of eia notification for elevated corridors
    URGENT - Can anyone please clarify this is for a project having stretches of elevated corridors and at grade roads. this falls neither under state hi…
  • Prof Dr V N Sivasankara Pillai May 21, 2010 at 6:45am
    It falls under construction projects. It uses land and augments traffic facilities. Call it by highway, state road, or any other name, it is built on land. Then what should we do if it is a tunnel connecting to points on land? What is more important is "the impact". EIA asses the baseline, predicts the impacts and proposes mitigation measures. More components of EM are added as needed. Since Indian judiciary proceeds by inclusion of literal listing, we can take the matter to the court and delay the process. Any activity, whether listed or not, that impacts the environment adversely shall be subjected to EIA. A responsible proponent can even submit a "No-imapct" statement before the authority before proceeding with a massive project, irrespective of whether it is listed in the EIA notification.
  • Chitra Rajesh May 20, 2010 at 7:31am
    cant this be covered under section 8(a) building and construction projects

    JOMCY MATHEW said:
    If your project road is not a national highway, state highway or an expressway, it does not require environmental clearance under the EIA Notification. MoEF is bothered only about the name of the road and not about the environmental impact. This is a major flaw in the EIA notification. Even though it was pointed out by several people, it was not addressed in the 2009 amendment also. They simply added the word Express Ways in the 2009 amendment.
    applicability of eia notification for elevated corridors
    URGENT - Can anyone please clarify this is for a project having stretches of elevated corridors and at grade roads. this falls neither under state hi…
  • JOMCY MATHEW May 20, 2010 at 6:38am
    If your project road is not a national highway, state highway or an expressway, it does not require environmental clearance under the EIA Notification. MoEF is bothered only about the name of the road and not about the environmental impact. This is a major flaw in the EIA notification. Even though it was pointed out by several people, it was not addressed in the 2009 amendment also. They simply added the word Express Ways in the 2009 amendment.
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