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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Moily sends positive signals to industries, assures quick green clearance to pending projects -Vishwa Mohan

Moily sends positive signals to industries, assures quick green clearance to pending projects -Vishwa Mohan

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published Published on Dec 25, 2013   modified Modified on Dec 25, 2013
-The Times of India


NEW DELHI: Seeking to send a positive signal to industries, the new environment and forest minister M Veerappa Moily on Tuesday said no files will be kept pending in his ministry and the "image" of the green regulator would never be compromised in the process of project clearance.

Immediately after taking additional charge of the environment and forest ministry, the Union petroleum and natural gas minister Moily said, "There is space for everyone... environment, wildlife and mankind. It is only our mental block which sometime thinks that there is friction and I think that friction will have to end up with fusion".

Insisting that everything will be done without compromising on existing rules and green norms, the minister said, "There are already set rules ... we need to perform the duty of regulator. The rules of game will have to be strictly followed. As far as possible, nothing should be left for the discretion. Ultimately, we have to go by rules of games which are laid down by the ministry".

His remarks came amid controversy around exit of Jayanthi Natarajan from the Union council of ministers. She had resigned as environment minister on Saturday, claiming to take the decision for taking up party works ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Though other ministers in the UPA government had taken such decision in the past, the exit of Natarajan is seen in certain quarters as a punishment to her for taking too much hard stand while taking up issues concerning green clearance to big infrastructure projects.

She, however, dismissed all these charges and said that the environment ministry during her tenure had followed a very transparent system and put out all details, concerning environmental clearances, on its website.

"The allegation of delay (in taking decision) is out of sheer ignorance. If applicants followed all the procedure and came out with required details, the ministry never sat over it knowing the implication under the existing rules," Natarajan had told TOI, dismissing the reports on reason for her exit as speculative.

Moily, who met Natarajan before taking charge of the environment ministry on Tuesday morning, preferred not to join such debate. He also dismissed the suggestions that there will be conflict of interest as he handles the portfolio of petroleum and natural gas which need lot of green clearances from the environment ministry.

"Everything has its space. Petroleum has its space ... every ministry has a space ... Ultimately, we have to go by the rules of the game which have been laid out by any ministry. We should not cross it. There should not be any fear or favour while discharging the duties," Moily said.

He said, "Any administration will have to be in system, the rules of the games and I don't think I should stamp my personal opinion in anyone of these".

Later, officials briefed him about the functioning of the ministry and enlisted before him the specific reasons for pending green clearances of various projects.


The Times of India, 24 December, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/developmental-issues/Moily-sends-positive-signals-to-industries-assures-quick-green-clearance-to-pending-proj


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