YEIDA ready with report for Jewar airport green nod

The final environmental clearance for the Jewar international airport is expected soon as the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change will review next week YEIDA’s response to seven objections over the project’s effect on the environment. Officials have now prepared a report specifying plans on how the development agency will rehabilitate Sarus and blackbuck habitats, how many saplings it will plant against the 11,000 trees that need to be cut and the shifting of 14 ponds that are in the area earmarked for the airport project. An appraisal committee of the environment ministry had in June last year raised objections to the environment assessment report YEIDA had prepared and sought responses on seven specific queries. The committee had sought a conservation plan for birds and fauna in consultation with the Wildlife Institute of India (WII).