Issues in Public Hearing Process: Resoving & Redressal Mechanism at Jharkhand
Journal Title: Journal of Environmental and Social Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
The aim of this article is to give an overview of the concerns of stakeholders by public hearing (PH) process in India and exploring the regional variation amongst different categories along with developing a model for resolving issues. In India process of PH are in practice for more than 28 yrs since 1997 when the law related to PH became effective, with emphasis on those aspects not sufficiently touched upon by most researchers so far. This article focused on the issues raised by stakeholders during the PH Process in different mining sectors in Jharkhand State. Altogether 55 nos. of PH process covering 48nos. of coal mining projects and 22 nos. of non-coal mining projects of the state have been analysed. Based on a literature review, exchanges with EIA practitioners and the author’s daily work on EIA, the issues were categorized and were found that most of issues are related to socio-economic(62%- 79%) in nature followed by land/soil issues(5%-10%) and air pollution(3%- 14%). A model were developed for resolving PH issues for the coal mining projects. This model will also help the environment planners engaged in making EIA studies and EMP formulation as per the desire and wishes of the people residing in and around the project.
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Manoj Kumar
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