NEW DELHI:- The Narendra Modi government’s controversial new draft law for environment clearance opens a window for real estate developers to avoid spending on activities that help the people and environment adversely affected by their projects, which is currently mandatory under the Corporate Environment Responsibility (CER) guidelines
This is because the revised definition of CER in the proposed law—known as the draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification 2020—restricts its scope and makes it ambiguous, according to environmental law experts and official documents reviewed by HuffPost India.
While currently the CER is an additional expense mandatory for developers, under the new law it has been subsumed under the Environment Management Plan (EMP).
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