Pathanamthitta: The private group promoting the Aranmula airport project had misled the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests by saying that the project neither required land reclamation nor creation of new land uses, environmentalist here allege. The project recently won environmental clearance with conditions from the Ministry.
To support their allegation, the green activists highlight a document obtained by P. Prasad, Communist Party of India district secretary, through an application under provisions of the Right to Information Act.
The document shows that Form-I and the feasibility report submitted by P.T. Nandakumar, Executive Director, KGS Aranmula Airport Ltd., to the then Director of the Ministry, E.K. Bharat Bhushan (now the Chief Secretary), on June 28, 2010, says the project required no reclamation or creation of new land uses.
The environmentalists hence allege that the company has concealed many key facts relating to the topographical, agrarian, land-use and other environmental aspects of the airport site and its waterbodies.
06/12/13 The Hindu
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To support their allegation, the green activists highlight a document obtained by P. Prasad, Communist Party of India district secretary, through an application under provisions of the Right to Information Act.
The document shows that Form-I and the feasibility report submitted by P.T. Nandakumar, Executive Director, KGS Aranmula Airport Ltd., to the then Director of the Ministry, E.K. Bharat Bhushan (now the Chief Secretary), on June 28, 2010, says the project required no reclamation or creation of new land uses.
The environmentalists hence allege that the company has concealed many key facts relating to the topographical, agrarian, land-use and other environmental aspects of the airport site and its waterbodies.
06/12/13 The Hindu
