http://JUDIS.NIC.IN SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE TARGET DATE STATUS 1. Catchment Area Treatment 31.12.1990 Only basic data has been received but the status of implementation and the Bar Chart is still awaited. 2. Rehabilitation Socio-economic studies by 30.6.91 and from actual implementation 31.3.1993 The status report does not clearly indicate the task completed so far and the proposed completion programme. In fact it was agreed by D/Power that a meeting would be arrange with the officials of Administrative Staff College of India who have under-taken the socio-economic survey of the project impact area. This meeting is yet to take place. 3. Command Area Development 31.3.1993 the Command Area Development Plan Group have yet to submit 4. Flora, Fauna Studies May 1991 The report of flora, fauna surveys have been received which have been forwarded to the BSI and ZSI for their observations by us. Comprehensive Action Plans are still to be formulated. 5. Disaster Management Plan (D.M.P.) 31.3.91 The final version of the DMP has not been received in the Ministry 6. Bhagirathi Basic Management Authority 31.3.93 The Group have issued a Government Order on 30.3.91 regarding setting up of the Authority. Legislation, however, is yet to be brought out. The main conditions that the Ministry of Environment fixes at the time of granting clearance to the Tehri Dam project is to comply with the conditions attached to the following aspects: 1. Catchment Area Treatment 2. Command Area Development 3. Flora and Fauna 4. Water Quality Maintenance 5. Bhagirathi Basin Management Authority 6. Disaster Management 7. Rehabilitation On 17.9.1996, the Government of India, on demand for further examination of certain rehabilitation and environmental issues relating to the Tehri Project, appointed a Committee headed by Prof. C H Hanumantha Rao. This Committee basically looked into the Rehabilitation Policy, its implementation and the implementation of various conditions for environmental clearance. Later, Hanumantha Rao Committee submitted it Report (hereinafter, HRC Report) in October 1997. Government of India accepted certain vital suggestions in the HRC Report. The petitioners allege that even the HRC Report, as accepted by the Government, was not Page 11 of 37