Bhubaneswar, Sept 5: Today the National Green Tribunal (NGT) asked the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to submit report within two weeks from now on the implementation of its public hearing and stop work order memorandum at Polavaram project site. The Ministry had issued stop-work order in 2011 due to non-compliance of the condition for environment clearance, that is, by conducting a public hearing in Chhattisgarh and Odisha. But the Environment Ministry last year decided to keep the stop work order in abeyance for a year, which expired in June this year. The next hearing is scheduled for September 19.
Polavaram, which the Andhra Pradesh government claims is the “lifeline of the state”, has been declared as a national project under the AP Re-organisation Act, 2014.
