Lavasa’s Pune project trips on green laws
June 10th, 2011 - 8:23 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, June 10 (IANS) The environment ministry Friday asked the Maharashtra government to take action against Lavasa Corporation for allegedly flouting green laws in construction of its massive lake city project near Pune.
In a letter, Bharat Bhushan of the environment ministry said: “During the process of appraisal and also based on the site visit by the committee headed by Naresh Dayal, it was found that constructions/developments in the 681 hectare area was in progress without obtaining prior environmental clearance.”
“Request you to initiate necessary action under Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, against violation of the Act,” the letter added.
The ministry Nov 25 last year slapped a show-cause notice on Lavasa Corporation because it had allegedly failed to secure necessary environmental clearances before starting work on its 5,000-plus hectare lake city project coming up in Mulshi sub-district of Pune district, around 200 km from Mumbai.
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