India, Feb. 26 -- The Regional Empowered Committee (REC) of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) on Wednesday deferred a decision on a proposal from the Goa Government and Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd, seeking forest clearance to proceed with the Mollem railway doubling project stalled over environmental concerns.

"The proposal was discussed at the meeting today, but we decided to seek more clarification regarding details of the project from the proponent," an official who was present at the meeting, said on the condition of anonymity.

The Goa government has approached the REC based at Bangalore seeking revocation of an abeyance order on the diversion of 15.6 hectares of forest land along the Kulem-Kalem (Collem- Ka...