No Environmental Clearance for Solid Waste Management Plant at Ghaziabad

The Municipal Solid Waste project at Dundahera, Ghaziabad, as identified by the Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam, Uttar Pradesh is category ‘B’ project as per Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006, and has not been accorded environmental clearance by the State Level Environment Impact Authority (SEIAA), Uttar Pradesh.

A draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)/Environmental Management Plan (EMP) report has been submitted by the project proponent to the Member Secretary, Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board and the public hearing was conducted on 20-04-2010.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Environment and Forests (independent charge) Shri Jairam Ramesh in a written reply to a question by Shri Nand Kishore Yadav in Rajya Sabha today.

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