Reconstitution of UTEIAA/UTEAC, Andaman and Nicobar

7906 GI/202 3 (1) EXTRAORDINARY PART II —Section 3 —Sub-section ( ii) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 5205] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY , DECEMBER 22, 2023/ PAUS HA 1, 1945 CG-DL-E-23122023-250852 MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 2 2nd December , 2023 S.O. 5 435(E).—In exe rcise of the powers conferred by sub -section (3) of section 3 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986) and in pursuance of the 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 said notification), the Central Governme nt hereby constitutes the Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Environment Impact Assessment Authority (hereinafter referred to as the Authority) comprising of the following persons, namely: - (a) Dr. R.S.C. Jayaraj, IFS Retd. Principal Chief Con servator of Forests, Al-204, Harihar Paradise, Netaji Road, P.N. Pudur, Coimbatore - 641041, Tamil Nadu. - Chairman; (b) Dr. Jai Sunder, Principal Scientist and Head, Division of Animal Science, ICAR - Central Island Agricultural Research Institute Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. - Member; (c) Director, Science and Technology, Andaman and Nicobar Administration, Port Blair. - Member - Secretary. 2. The Chairman and Members of the Authority shall hold office for a period of three years from the date of publication of this notification in the Official Gazette. 3. The Authority shall exercise such powers and follow such procedures as specified in the said notification. 4. The Authority shall take its decision on the recommendations of the Uni on territory level Expert Appraisal Committee constituted under paragraph 5 for the Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar. 5. The Central Government, in consultation with the administration of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, for the purpose of assisting t he Authority, hereby constitutes the Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Expert Appraisal Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Committee), comprising of the following persons, namely: - (a) Dr. Dilip Kumar Jha, Scientist F/Officer -In-Charge, Atal Centre for Ocean Science and Technology for Islands, National Institute of Ocean Technology, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. - Chairman; (b) Mrs. Pearl Devdas, Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of Geography, Jawaharlal Nehru Rajkeeya Mahavidyalaya (JNRM), Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. - Member; (c) Dr. G Padmavati, Professor, Department of Ocean Studies and Marine BiologyPondicherry University Andaman and Nicobar Campus, Brookshabad, Port Blair –744112, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. - Member; (d) Dr. Uday Shankar Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Department In-charge (Economics), Andaman College (ANCOL), Chakkargaon, Port Blair. - Member; (e) Sh. Seemanta Kumar Deka, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Tourism and Travel Mana gement, Jawaharlal Nehru Rajkeeya Mahavidyalaya (JNRM), Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. - Member; (f) Dr. S. Balaji, Professor and Head, Dept. Coastal Disaster Management, Pondicherry University, Port Blair Campus - 744112, Andaman. - Member; (g) Dr. I. Jaisankar, Senior Scientist (Agroforestry) Natural Resource Management Division, ICAR -Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair -744105, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. - Member; (h) Member Secretary, Andaman and Nicobar Pollution C ontrol Committee, Port Blair. - Member Secretary. 6. The Chairman and Members of the Committee, shall hold office for a period of three years from the date of publication of this notification in the Official Gazette. 7. In order to avoid any conflict of int erest, - (i) the Chairman and Members of the Authority, and the Committee shall, - (a) declare to which consulting organisation they have been associated with and also the project proponents; (b) not undertake any consultation or associate with regard t o preparation of Environment Impact Assessment and Environment Management Plan for project, which is to be decided by the Authority or to be appraised by the Committee during their tenure; and (ii) in the preceding five years, if the Chairman or any Member of the Committee has provided consultancy services or conducted Environment Impact Assessment studies for any project proponent, they shall recuse themselves from the meetings of the Committee from the process of appraisal of any project proposed by such proponents. 8. The Committee shall exercise such powers and follow such procedures as specified in the said notification. 9. The Committee shall function on the principle of collective responsibility and the Chairman shall endeavour to reach consensus i n each case, and if they fail to reach consensus, the view of the majority shall prevail. 10. The administration of Andaman and Nicobar shall specify an agency to act as secretariat of the Authority and the Committee and the secretariat shall provide fina ncial and logistic support including accommodation, transportation and such other facilities in respect of their functions under the said notification. 11. The sitting fee, travelling allowances and dearness allowances to the Chairman and Members of the Au thority and the Committee, shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of relevant rules of the Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. [F. No. IA3-13/6/2023 -IA.III ] Dr. SUJIT KUMAR BAJPAYEE, Jt. Secy. 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