Projects under Environmental Protection
More than 6000 projects have been sanctioned till 2008 under the Environment Protection Act.Monitoring of projects is carried out through six Regional Offices of the Ministry of Environment & Forests located at Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Shillong. Targets and Action Plans are fixed every year and accordingly, field visits are made by the Scientists of Regional Offices. Based on the field visit reports, appropriate action is taken.
A total number of sixteen Scientists had been working for monitoring till the end of March, 2009 in the Regional Offices. In addition, State Pollution Control Boards and Central Pollution Control Board are also involved in the monitoring process.
About 99 violation cases pertaining to the stipulated environmental conditions have been reported till March, 2009.
This information was given by the Shri Namo Narain Meena, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and currently looking after Ministry of Environment and Forests in a return reply to question by S/Shri Raj Mohinder Singh Majitha and Shivanand Tiwari in the Rajya Sabha today.
More than 6000 projects have been sanctioned till 2008 under the Environment Protection Act.Monitoring of projects is carried out through six Regional Offices of the Ministry of Environment & Forests located at Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Shillong. Targets and Action Plans are fixed every year and accordingly, field visits are made by the Scientists of Regional Offices. Based on the field visit reports, appropriate action is taken.
A total number of sixteen Scientists had been working for monitoring till the end of March, 2009 in the Regional Offices. In addition, State Pollution Control Boards and Central Pollution Control Board are also involved in the monitoring process.
About 99 violation cases pertaining to the stipulated environmental conditions have been reported till March, 2009.
This information was given by the Shri Namo Narain Meena, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and currently looking after Ministry of Environment and Forests in a return reply to question by S/Shri Raj Mohinder Singh Majitha and Shivanand Tiwari in the Rajya Sabha today.
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