This will also jolt down the PH timeline. Altogether PH for 121 project have been
analysed covering 16 different state of India. An issue tree was framed. Analysis
for brown as well as green field projects, UG as well as opencast project, mining
and non-mining projects, coal mining projects amongst mining projects, where
data for PH collected from different sources and personal interventions.Public
Hearing provides a legal space for people of an area to come face-to-face with the
project proponent and the government and express their concerns. Various Office
memorandum, circulars and amendments to it have issued for the PH process by
Ministry of Environment and forest & Climate change, Government of India from
time to time. The time line can be observed at table. 1.
10.04.97
13.06.02
Table. 1 : Public Hearing Time Line
The process of environmental public hearing (EPH) was
introduced in the environmental clearance process. The SPCBs
were entrusted to conduct public hearing to get the views and
concerns of the affected community and interested parties for
the proposed project. It was also entrusted with forming an EPH
committee to ensure fair representation in the public hearing
process.
It exempted pipeline and highway projects from preparing the
EIA report, but these projects would have to conduct public
hearings in all the districts through which the pipeline or
highway passes.
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