New Delhi, Jan. 29: In fresh development after two ministries involved in a project for widening of a national highway through a national park in Madhya Pradesh resolved their differences, the Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that it would examine the implication of the decision to have an elevated corridor.
“I need time as I want to discuss the implication of the decision,” Attorney-General G.E. Vahanvati told a special forest bench comprising Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justices S.H. Kapadia and Aftab Alam.
The bench allowed Mr G.E. Vahanvati’s plea and posted the matter for February 19.
The ministry of environment and forest and ministry of surface transport, under which the National Highway Authority of India comes, had resolved their differences and agreed to the suggestion of top court-appointed Central Empowered Committee to construct an elevated corridor of 8.7 kilometre passing through the tiger reserve and the reserve forest.
During the last hearing, the differences between the two ministries had come out in the open, prompting the bench to ask them to come out with a concrete suggestion. —PTI
