PANJIM, Jan. 8 -- Around 30 environment experts, associated with the country's top institutes, have pointed out that the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) studies of the three proposed infrastructure projects - double tracking of railway, power transmission line and national highway expansion - passing through the protected wilds of Mollem, are 'considerably weak' and 'riddled with inadequacies'.

The experts, associated with institutes like the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Azim Premji University in Bengaluru, Wildlife Conservation Trust in Mumbai, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, etc, have proposed a cumulative EIA of the three projects on the protected areas of the Bhgwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary and Mollem Nation...