Creating a Win-environment

overcoming environmental clearance bottlenecks in infrastructure

Abstract

The Proposed investment in infrastructure over the next five years is a gargantuan Rs. One hundred lakh Crores. To practically achieve the target AND to get he benefit of such an expenditure requires that the works get largely commissioned, and are not largely thrown forward for completion, commissioning.  There has to be an assurance of removal of bottlenecks. Cutting of trees, intruding into some forest land are bound to be an inevitable consequences of mega infrastructural projects., The  Environmental Clearances with their  associated time lags in getting the ‘go ahead’ may be a big dampener. This paper suggests an innovative way of overcoming the procedural delays so that the projects effected by forest clearances/ environmental clearances can be ‘kick started.