Empowered Committee constituted to give environmental clearance

Chairman RERA Odisha Siddhant Das has been appointed Chairman of the Central Empowered Committee to give environmental clearance to projects. Ms Banumathi G, AIGF, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, is made the Member Secretary of the apex committee, while DG Forests Chadra Prakash Goyal, Suil Limaye and J R Bhatt will be its Members. The committee was earlier under the Supreme Court. Now the Central Government has been authorized by the SC to make the appointments.