IANS | 23 Sep, 2022
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday advised Environment and Forest
departments to set parameters to give early clearances to environment
and forest-related projects.
The Prime Minister said for
clearance 6,000 projects applications each pending forest and
environment clearance. It takes three months to get each project cleared
by the environment and forest department.
While virtually
addressing the National Conference of Environment Ministers in Ekta
Nagar in Gujarat, the Prime Minister said that the state government
should take up biofuel blending as a programme and ensure that the
belding increases in each state and carbon omission is brought under
control.
He said, "I think that the role of the Environment
Ministry is more as a promoter of the environment rather than the
regulator." He asked the states to own the measures like vehicle
scrapping policy, and healthy competition as well as collaboration among
the states to promote these measures.
