Months ahead of assembly elections in Gujarat, a key segment of the ambitious Surat-Chennai economic corridor has hit a serious green hurdle.
The near Rs 14,000 crore project has run into trouble with the Union Environment ministry’s Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) for Infrastructure projects, over its proposed 290 km long greenfield Surat-Nashik-Ahmednagar section which falls in pristine and untouched areas of the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats.