New Delhi, May 31: Following an order by an appellate authority, the Environment Ministry today stayed the clearance granted to a mining project at village Pirla in South Goa three years ago.
On May 13, the National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) had stayed the nod given by the ministry to private firm Careamol Iron Ore Ltd after it was found that it allegedly made a “wrong” declaration in its Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report in violation of ecological norms.
“The mining project was granted environmental clearance in September 2007 by the Environment Ministry even though the project proponent had given wrong information,” said Supreme Court advocate Ritwick Dutta who had challenged the order before the Authority.
He claimed that the company “mislead” the government by declaring that the river Kushawati is at a distance of 2.
–Agencies