The Chief Secretary, Subhash Kumar, met the Secretary, Union Forest and Environment Ministry, Rajgopalan in New Delhi, to get clearance for the hydel power projects in lakhwad and Vyasi. Providing this information, the CS said that all the formalities for forest clearance of the 300 Mega Watt project in lakhwad had been competed. The project will get sanction from the Advisory Committee within two weeks.
He also made it clear that the state had already received forest clearance for this, but since the work has been handed over to UJVNl, clearance was being taken again. The 120 MW hydel project had received clearance on 12 August 2013. After the court verdict on 13 August, the Forest and Environment Ministry had sent it to the law Department for advice. From the time of Uttar Pradesh, 33 per cent of work has already been completed on this project.