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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-14052025-263083
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (ii)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 2080]
NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2025/VAISAKHA 23, 1947
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 13th May,2025
S.O. 2125(E).— WHEREAS a draft notification was published in the Gazette of India,
Extraordinary, vide notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change number S.O. 5409(E), dated the 21st, December 2023, inviting objections and suggestions
from all persons likely to be affected thereby within the period of sixty days from the date on which copies
of the Gazette containing the said notification were made available to the public;
AND WHEREAS copies of the Gazette containing the said draft notification were made available
to the public on the 21st December, 2023;
AND WHEREAS objections and suggestions received from persons in response to the said draft
notification have been considered by the Central Government;
NOW, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) and clauses (v) and
(xiv) of sub-section (2) and sub-section (3) of section 3 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of
1986) (hereafter in this notification referred to as the Environment Act), read with sub-rule (3) of rule 5 of
the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, the Central Government hereby makes the following
amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the erstwhile Ministry of Environment and
Forests number S.O. 102 (E), dated the 1st February, 1989, namely:-
In the said notification, -
(a)
(b)
for paragraphs (iii), (iv) and (v) the following paragraphs shall be substituted, namely: –
"(iii)
Tourism Plan, Grazing Plan, Master Plan of Development and Land Use Plan, and any other
such Plan including Zonal Master Plan, Integrated Master Plan shall be prepared by the State
Government with due involvement of all concerned State Departments such as Environment,
Forest, Urban Development, Tourism, Municipality, Revenue, Public Works, Water
Resources, Horticulture, Panchayati Raj, Rural Development, Pollution Control Board, etc.,
for integrating environmental concern into it and shall be approved by the competent
authority in the State Government of Uttarakhand.”;
(iv)
The projects which are not covered under the Environment Impact Assessment Notification
issued vide number S.O. 1533 (E), dated the 14th September, 2006, however, falls under the
orange category of industries shall be considered by the Uttarakhand State Pollution Control
Board following the due process.
(v)
The projects which are covered in the Schedule under the Environment Impact Assessment
Notification, issued vide number S.O. 1533 (E), dated the 14th September, 2006, shall follow
the procedure laid down in that notification".
in the note, for clause (d), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely:-
"(d)
the orange categories industries, which are now in the red categories of industries shall be
continued and expansion of such orange category industries falling in the Schedule of the
(e)
notification of the Government of India in the erstwhile Ministry of Environment and Forests
number S.O. 1533 (E), dated the 14th September, 2006 (hereinafter referred to as the EIA
notification) to be allowed only subject to the extant provision pertaining to such expansion
as laid down in sub-para (ii) of para 7 of said notification, as amended from time to time,
and related extant directions issued in this regard by the Central Government in the Ministry
of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, from time to time.
The Uttarakhand State Pollution Control Board shall lay down a mechanism for expansion
of the industries referred to in clause (d) which are not falling in the Schedule of the said
notification.".
[F. No. 25/6/2012-ESZ-RE]
DR. S. KERKETTA, Scientist 'G'
Note.- The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section-3,
Sub-section (ii) vide S.O. 102(E), dated the 1st February, 1989 and amended S.O. 94(E), dated the 6th
January, 2020.
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 13th May,2025
S.O. 2126 (E) .— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) and clauses
(v) and (xiv) of sub-section (2) and sub-section (3) of section 3 and section 5 of the Environment (Protection)
Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), read with sub-rule (3) of rule 5 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, the
Central Government being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby rescinds the
order of the Government of India in the erstwhile Ministry of Environment and Forests published in the
Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), vide number S.O. 2125 (E), dated the 13th
December, 2007, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such rescission.
[F. No. 25/6/2012-ESZ-RE]
DR. S. KERKETTA, Scientist 'G'
Note.- The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section-3,
Sub-section (ii) vide number S.O. 2125(E), dated the 13th December, 2007.