Lavassa incident if it is to be covered under the EIA Notification, what were local authorities doing till now?
There are a few aspects highlighted
- lack of communicability between the central, state and local governing bodies.
- burocracy has failed times without number in the country and this incident will only add one more number.
- the country in which we have slum clearance boards and the Mumbai City where almost or may be half of the Census count is living in slums - i.e. poor quality of houses as per the WHO standards of housing requirement. Affluent styled housing have come as unwanted thing on its development.
- Look back in the verbatim of the Notification which literally means that if the Govt itself wants to provide proper housing to poor people needs EC having an individual carpet area of 50 sq.mts. each!! Whereas a house of a rich man can go upto thousands of sq. mts. for a rich man need not have EC!!
- Anil Ambani's Antilla or whatever is now termed did it have EC / CRZ hurdles?
- The classification of the activities want more than 20000 sq.mts of housing to be cleared through EC - What about an industrial activity not covered under EC and having more than this threshold value? Is construction activity for industrial project less harmful for industrial projects?
- The country where housing deficit is a big question, such provisions for clearances have to be removed.
The policymakers have to realize these things and be rational
