Panel to visit Lavasa project in January: Ramesh
By IANSWednesday, December 29, 2010
NEW DELHI - Environment minister Jairam Ramesh Wednesday said a three-member panel of his ministry will visit Lavasa Lake City project near Pune in Maharashtra in the first week of January to look into allegations of green laws violations.
“A three-member technical team of the ministry will visit Lavasa project in the first week of January and we will submit our reply by Jan 10 as directed by the Bombay High Court,” Ramesh told reporters here.
The ministry Nov 25 slapped a show-cause notice on the company because it had allegedly failed to secure necessary environmental clearances before starting work on its 5,000-plus hectare project coming up in Mulshi sub-district of Pune district, around 200 km from Mumbai.
The high court upheld the ’stop work’ orders of the environment ministry to Lavasa Corporation Dec 22.
The next hearing of the case is scheduled for Jan 27.
