On Wednesday, the ministry sent a circular to all the state forest secretaries and chief wildlife wardens asking them to tell user agencies to submit their project proposals online. "The portal would also facilitate monitoring of proposals by user agencies for seeking wildlife clearance along with other two clearances," a senior forest official told TOI.
Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar had told media during his visit to Nagpur on July 21 last that a single window clearance system for projects would be started. After eight months the facility is in place.
The user agency has to register with the portal before submitting any proposal for seeking prior approval of the Central government. The applicant registering with portal will be sent user ID and password through which it can track the status of the proposal after submitting it online.
"If user agencies require both forests and wildlife clearances,
then, first, they have to submit application for seeking forest clearance (FC). After submitting FC application, they can submit wildlife application," the official said.
After receiving the proposal online, nodal officer can examine it and forward to the divisions affected by the diversion of forest land. If proposal is not complete, nodal officer can raise query and may ask agencies to submit complete proposal.
Former member of standing committee of National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) Kishor Rithe welcomed the move. "As a member then, we had pushed for single window clearance and also did the ground work. It will certainly expedite project clearances though site inspections take time. But with committees dominated by BJP activists it will hardly matter," Rithe said.
Earlier, getting clearances took months as many projects had to go through three clearances — environment, forest and wildlife. Considering the meetings of environment appraisal committee (EAC), forest advisory committee (FAC) and National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) held after long gaps, projects used to linger. Now all the clearances will go hand-in-hand.
Forest officials said it will provide transparency and efficiency in working environment, minimize the processing delay and help in timely disposal of important issues. It will be a paperless regime.
How it was?
* Earlier: Projects wanting environment, forest and wildlife learances used to go to EAC, FAC and Standing Committee of NBWL. These committees used to meet once in three months. First projects proponents had to take EC then FAC clearance before finally going to the NBWL. In case of queries, the proposals used to be sent back for compliances, stretching the process to years.
* Now: User agency (applicants) can click on register tab available on main page of the portal (efclearance.nic.in). A registration form will be displayed on the screen. When applicant submits registration form, he will be given user ID (e-mail) and password. All the proposal information will be available on single window. He will know about all the clearances at a time. The proposals will be cleared in a few months.
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