MUMBAI: In a major relief to large number of real estate projects stuck for long as the State authority has been deferring pleas for environmental clearance (EC) citing a September 2022 NGT order, Bombay high court on Friday directed State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) to decide such requests expeditiously, in eight weeks, on merit.
The HC bench of acting chief justice S V Gangapurwala and Justice Sandeep Marne on Friday held that the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) "could not have deferred decision of proposals for grant of EC merely on the basis of the judgment and order dated 13 September 2022 of National Green Tribunal (NGT)" which was in one particular case and "would not govern each and every proposal submitted before SEIAA under DCPR 2034."
