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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Politics

Ecologically damaging saga of retrospective environmental clearances continues: Congress

New Delhi: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday slammed the Modi government over the issue of retrospective environmental clearances, and said the "ecologically damaging saga" continues.

The Congress general secretary in-charge communications shared the screenshot of a media report which claimed that the Union Environment Ministry has directed its central and state-level expert bodies to resume processing 'post-facto' environmental clearance (EC) proposals, two months after the Supreme Court permitted it to take such pending, rejected or returned proposals to their logical conclusion in accordance with law.

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