{"id":36361,"date":"2021-02-08T04:31:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T04:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=36361"},"modified":"2021-02-08T04:31:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T04:31:34","slug":"niti-aayog-study-to-track-economic-impact-of-green-verdicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/niti-aayog-study-to-track-economic-impact-of-green-verdicts\/","title":{"rendered":"NITI Aayog study to track economic impact of green verdicts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The NITI Aayog has commissioned a study that seeks to examine the \u201cunintended economic consequences\u201d of judicial decisions that have hindered and stalled big-ticket projects on environmental grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz-2020\/daily-quiz-january-2021\/\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The document appears to suggest that judgments that negatively impact major infrastructure projects don\u2019t adequately consider the economic fallout \u2014 in terms of loss of jobs and revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doing so, would contribute to public discourse among policymakers for promoting an \u201ceconomically responsible approach by judiciary\u201d in its decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project brief says that it intends to examine five major projects that have been \u201cimpacted\u201d by judicial decisions of the Supreme Court or the National Green Tribunal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It plans to do this by interviewing people who have been affected by the closure of the projects, environmental campaigners, experts and assessing the business impact of closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Projects to be analysed include the construction of an airport in Mopa, Goa; cessation of iron ore mining in Goa, and the shutting down of the Sterlite copper plant in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu. The others are decisions by the NGT involving sand mining, and construction activities in the National Capital Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study is to be undertaken by the Jaipur-headquartered CUTS (Consumer Unity and Trust Society) Centre for Competition, Investment and Economic Regulation, that also has an international presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NITI Aayog has commissioned a study that seeks to examine the \u201cunintended economic consequences\u201d of judicial decisions that have hindered and stalled big-ticket projects on environmental grounds. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The document appears to suggest that judgments that negatively impact major infrastructure projects don\u2019t adequately consider the economic fallout \u2014 in terms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":7614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1390],"tags":[82],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-36361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-february-2021","tag-economy-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36362,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36361\/revisions\/36362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36361"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=36361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}