New Delhi, June 30 -- Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday slammed the Centre over environmental clearance to a coal mining project in Chhattisgarh, saying the recognition of community forest rights under the Forest Rights Act, 2006, cannot be wished away.
The former environment minister said that on January 15, 2024, the two-member Bhopal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) delivered a 209-page judgment quashing the environmental clearance given on July 11, 2022, to the Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited (MAHAGENCO) for mining of coal at Gare Palma, Sector-II in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh.
The Congress general secretary in charge of communications said the open-cast mine covers an area of over 6,300 acres ...