Comments
The Supreme Court-appointed Indian Council for Forest Research and Education (ICFRE) team will visit mining areas in the district for five days from tomorrow to assess the environmental impact due to mining.
The 18-member team, headed by ICFRE Chief Director, Mr K.V. Bahuguna, will visit Sandur, Bellary and Hospet, official sources said here today.
The team will also hear the views of miners and others on August 25 and submit its findings in three months to the Supreme Court.
On August 5, the Apex Court while allowing state enterprise NMDC to operate its two mines for producing iron ore in the district, had directed ICFRE to undertake a macro level environment impact assessment jointly with Wildlife Institute of India, Forest Survey of India and other expert organisations in forestry as decided by ICFRE in consultation with the Environment and Forest Ministry.
Comments
COMMENT NOW
Comments
Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.
We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of TheHindu Businessline and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.