Government eases green cover requirements for industrial projects, allowing reduced greenbelt percentages to promote development amid environmental concerns.
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest and Climate Change has reduced the mandatory requirement of greenbelt or green cover for new industrial estates, parks and individual industries under environmental clearance conditions.
The Ministry had earlier standardised the conditions for the projects covered in the schedule of the Environment Impact Assessment notification, 2006 in which the minimum 33% separate green belt was compulsory for development projects, including industrial estates.
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