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Central institute’s report backs concerns of activists, asks ministry to redo draft EIA notification 2020.
Weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown last March to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Indians were still trying to grapple with its impact on their lives and livelihood, the environment ministry went ahead and published the draft environment impact assessment notification 2020.
This was then followed by the ministry doing its utmost to hastily implement the drastic changes proposed in the draft, by reducing the legally mandated public consultations to a token exercise.
Despite the all-round pandemic-induced stupor, public outrage—which found reflection in a flood of over two million emails and letters from …
