Supreme Court clears way for Mopa International Airport at Goa

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for an international airport at Mopa in Goa, by lifting the restrictions on construction activity and asking the state and the concessionaire to comply with all original as well as additional conditions, including those on the need to preserve the biodiversity of the Western Ghats.

A bench of Justice D Y Chandrachud and Hemant Gupta passed its order on an application by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, seeking a direction that the minutes of the 40th meeting of the Expert Appraisal Committee of April 23, 2019 should be taken on the record for lifting the embargo imposed by this court on the environmental clearance for the greenfield airport.