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Environment Industry & Economy - Coal Faster forest clearances for coal projects 
Green concerns: The Minister of Coal, Mr Sriprakash Jaiswal, and the Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Mr Jairam Ramesh, at a press conference in the Capital, on Thursday. The Environment Ministry will speed up the approval process for development of new coal mines. - V.V. Krishnan Our Bureau New Delhi, Jun 18 The Centre is working on a series of measures to help coal projects clear regulatory and environmental hurdles faster. “It usually takes three-five years to get forest clearances from State governments… We will talk to the coal-rich States about expediting the process. I don’t see why it should take more than a year,” the Environment Minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, told presspersons at a news conference. Over the next three-four weeks, the Union Coal and the Environment Ministries will collate their data to identify forest areas that can be diverted for coal mining, he said. Mr Ramesh, along with the Coal Minister, Mr Sriprakash Jaiswal, will also visit coal-rich States such as Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh. An expedited environmental approval process would speed up development of new coal mines and increase production from older ones, said Mr Partha Bhattacharyya, Chairman of state-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) said. “Our production targets are already pretty high,” he said. More Stories on : Environment | Coal
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