Chandigarh, May 17 -- The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has rejected Haryana government's proposal to appoint an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, Devinder Singh Kalyan as chairman of State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), Haryana.

The SEIAA is an arm of the MoEFCC which has been delegated powers to consider and grant environmental clearance for a category of projects, including mining, infrastructure, industrial and construction.

Kalyan who is the brother of BJP MLA and Haryana assembly speaker, Harvinder Kalyan is due to retire from the service on May 31. An IRS officer from the income tax stream, Devinder Kalyan in April 2023 had managed to get a posting in the Haryana governmen...