Pathanamthitta: In a severe setback to the proposed Aranmula airport project, the Thiruvaranmula Paithrukagrama Samrakashana Samiti has revealed that Union Environment Minister Jayanti Natarajan had made it clear that no environmental clearance was given for the Aranmula airport project.
Addressing a news conference here on Friday, samiti patron Kummanam Rajasekharan and Aranmula Palliyoda-Pallivilakku Samrakshana Samiti general convener P Induchoodan said that Jayanti Natarajan, in the reply to the memoranda submitted by Lok Sabha Opposition Leader Sushma Swaraj and Kummanam Rajasekharan, informed that no environment clearance was granted to the Aranmula airport project.
Kummanam said that the clearances were given by the Defence and Civil Aviation Departments for the airport project on condition that the clearances were subject to the future clearance of the Environment Ministry.
16/02/13 New Indian Express
