{"id":452569,"date":"2021-11-29T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=452569"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:46:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T06:16:06","slug":"chhattisgarh-government-seeks-nod-to-mine-forests-amid-red-flags-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chhattisgarh-government-seeks-nod-to-mine-forests-amid-red-flags-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Chhattisgarh government seeks nod to mine forests amid red flags: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chhattisgarh government is seeking permission to start mining in the forests of Hasdeo Aranya Coal Field (HACF) even as a biodiversity report from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) recommended that the area should remain untouched. <\/p>\n<p>The push for a nod to start Phase-2 of mining in the Parsa (East) and Kete Basan (PEKB) coal block was recorded in a meeting of the Union Environment Ministry\u2019s Forest Advisory Committee on October 28. Classifying it an &#8220;instant request&#8221;, the committee discussed diversion of forest land for PEKB coal block\u2019s Phase-2 across 1,136 hectares of forests, according to a report by The Indian Express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chhattisgarh government is seeking permission to start mining in the forests of Hasdeo Aranya Coal Field (HACF) even as a biodiversity report from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) recommended that the area should remain untouched. The push for a nod to start Phase-2 of mining in the Parsa (East) and Kete Basan (PEKB) coal block was recorded in a meeting of the Union Environment Ministry\u2019s Forest Advisory Committee on October 28. Classifying it an &#8220;instant request&#8221;, the committee discussed diversion of forest land for PEKB coal block\u2019s Phase-2 across 1,136 hectares of forests, according to a report by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}