The Supreme Court (SC) has asked for a response from the Adani Group of Companies, the Union Government and others on a petition seeking to stall work at Adani's Rs 7,400 crore multi-product SEZ coming up on 6,000 acre at Mundra in Gujarat.
The SC has issued a notice to Adani, the Ministry of Commerce and MoEF, Mundra Ports & Special Economic Zone, Gujarat Government, Gujarat Pollution Control Board and others and tagged the petition with another similar plea filed by the fishermen of Gujarat.
Seven fishermen have filed a petition opposing the allotment of land which falls in the areas that come within the purview of the Coastal Regulation Zone. According to the petitioners, the company, after allotment of an additional area of 2,113.7962 ha of land, had undertaken construction and development activity for the additional SEZ without obtaining prior environmental clearance as mandated by the MoEF's notification of 14 September 2006.
Source : ProjectsToday
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