Lok Sabha Question No. 3671 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-08-11
Subject: Projects Pending due to Environmental Clearance
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Shri Ravindra Shukla Alias Ravi Kishan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED Q. NO. 3671

TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.08.2025

## Projects Pending due to Environmental Clearance

## 3671.   SHRI RAVINDRA SHUKLA ALIAS RAVI KISHAN:

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  projects  of  the  Union  and  State  Governments  are  pending  for  want  of Environmental Clearance, if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise;
- (b) the names of the Schemes in the State of Uttar Pradesh which are under consideration of the Ministry along with the current status of the said Schemes; and
- (c) the time by when the Ministry is likely to take decision in this regard?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH)

(a) As per the provisions laid down in the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006,  as  amended,  the  proposals  are  appraised  and  recommended  by  the  Expert  Appraisal Committee (EAC) at the Central level or State Level Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC) at the State level depending on the category of the project. Based on the recommendations of the aforesaid committee, projects are further considered by the Ministry or State Environmental Impact  Assessment  Authority  (SEIAA),  as  the  case  may  be,  for  approval  for  grant  of Environmental Clearance (EC) or otherwise. As per the provisions stated above, EC is granted only after appraisal of the project by the Expert Appraisal Committee and incorporation of appropriate  environmental  safeguards  including  mitigatory  measures  as  prescribed  in  the Environment Management Plan (EMP).  As per information available on PARIVESH Portal, retrieved  on  06.08.2025,  16  proposals  relating  to  the  Central/State  Governments/UTs  have been submitted to the Ministry as per provisions of the aforesaid notification. A state-wise list of these proposals is provided in the table below:

Table

|   S.No | State/UTs          |   No. of EC proposals submitted to the Ministry |
|--------|--------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|      1 | Andhra Pradesh     |                                              01 |
|      2 | Arunanchal Pradesh |                                              01 |
|      3 | Bihar              |                                              01 |
|      4 | Chhattisgarh       |                                              02 |
|      5 | Delhi              |                                              01 |

|   6 | Haryana       |   01 |
|-----|---------------|------|
|   7 | Jharkhand     |   01 |
|   8 | Maharashtra   |   01 |
|   9 | Odisha        |   02 |
|  10 | Punjab        |   02 |
|  11 | Telangana     |   01 |
|  12 | Uttar Pradesh |   01 |
|  13 | Uttarakhand   |   01 |

(b)&(c) No scheme related to environmental clearance from the state of Uttar Pradesh is under consideration in  the  Ministry.  However,  one  project  proposal,  relating  to  Central  PSU,  for environmental clearance namely 'Laying of Steel Gas Pipeline (Approx.   Pipeline Length: 89.00 KM) from Thana Bhawan to Bijnor Town in Muzaffarnagar, Shamli & Bijnor District, of Uttar Pradesh' by M/s Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited has been submitted to the Ministry.  The  Ministry  is  guided  by  the  timelines  for  processing  Environmental  Clearance cases as prescribed in the EIA Notification 2006, as amended.

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