Industries get 6 months for retrospective green nod
Source: The Hindu, Date: , 2107
The Hindu, New Delhi, Mar, 2017 : In what could cheer a vast swathe of industries, the Union
Environment Ministry has given a six-month window and a “one-time opportunity”
to industrial projects functioning without environmental clearance (EC) to
apply for a back-dated green certificate. The reprieve is for projects that
started the work on site, expanded the production beyond the limit of EC or
changed the product mix without obtaining prior EC, a press statement by the
Ministry said late on Thursday. This is not the first time the Ministry has
spelt out a procedure to regularise this category of industrial offenders. The
Ministry had laid out rules on 12.12.2012 and 27.06.2013 and laid down a
process for granting EC to such cases of violation.