Ajay B Dwivedi's Blog – January 2011 Archive (2)

Lavassa incident if it is to be covered under the EIA Notification, what were local authorities doing till now?

There are a few aspects highlighted

1. lack of communicability between the central, state and local governing bodies.
2. burocracy has failed times without number in the country and this incident will only add one more number.
3. the country in which we have slum clearance boards and the Mumbai City where almost or may be half of the Census count is…

MoEF's intervention and the order for demolition of the building proves many things:

1. Ineffectiveness of the entire process of EIA / CRZ.
2. Ineffectiveness of the system in which the CRZ / EC and EIA are operational.
3. Looking back at current events particularly in Maharashtra we have three examples where the process has seen troubles Mumbai Airport, Adarsh and Lavassa City. This goes to prove that the procedure has not accounted certain things.
4. It might be…