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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged state environment ministers against unnecessarily allowing obstacles in the name of the environment and to ensure ease of living and doing business while highlighting the importance of the parivesh portal for the single-window forest, wildlife, environment, and coastal regulation zone clearances. He said over 6,000 proposals for environmental and […]

The environmental clearance process is required for 39 types of projects and covers aspects like screening, scoping and evaluation of the upcoming project. The main purpose is to assess impact of the planned project on the environment and people and to try to abate/minimize the same. The process is summarized in Figure 2.1: Environmental clearance