Team News Riveting
Raipur, December 1
Retired Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Debasish Das has been appointed as the Chairman of Chhattisgarh State Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority.
The Central Government has constituted the State Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority, Chhattisgarh (hereinafter referred to as the Authority, Chhattisgarh) comprising three members. Besides Das, Dr. Deepak Sinha, Assistant Professor,Department of Chemistry, Government Nagarjun Post Graduate College of Science, Raipur has been appointed as member while Member Secretary of Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board will be the Member Secretary of the Authority.
For the purpose of assisting the Authority, Chhattisgarh, the Central Government, in consultation with the State Government of Chhattisgarh, constituted the State Level Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC, Chhattisgarh) headed by Dr B P Nonhare, Retired Indian Forest Service, Ex-Chief Conservator of Forest. The SEAC will have seven members with Deputy Secretary in the Housing and Environment Department, Government of Chhattisgarh as its Member-Secretary.
The Chairman and Members of SEAC, Chhattisgarh shall hold office for a term of three years from the date of publication of this notification in the Official Gazette.
The notification issued said that in order to avoid any conflict of interest, the Chairman and Members of the Authority, Chhattisgarh and SEAC, Chhattisgarh shall declare as to which consulting organisation they have been associated with and also the project proponents. The Chairman and Members of the Authority, Chhattisgarh and SEAC, Chhattisgarh shall not undertake any consultation or associate with preparation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Environment Management Plan for a project, which is to be appraised by the Authority, Chhattisgarh and SEAC, Chhattisgarh during their tenure; and if in the past five years, the Chairman or any of the Members of the Authority, Chhattisgarh and SEAC, Chhattisgarh have provided consultancy services or conducted EIA studies for any project proponent, in that event they shall recuse themselves from the meeting of the Authority, Chhattisgarh and SEAC, Chhattisgarh in the process of appraisal of any project being proposed by such proponents.
