Adavivaram data center: SEAC has No Jurisdiction
The project attracts the General Condition and is Category A and therefore the SEAC has no jurisdiction. Under the General Condition appended to the Schedule of the EIA Notification 2006, a Category B project located within 10 km of the boundary of a Protected Area notified under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 must be treated as Category A and appraised by the Expert appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) at the Centre. The proponent’s own EMP (page 9) records that the site is 0.86 km from the Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary boundary and 0.45 km from its notified Eco-Sensitive Zone (Sanctuary and ESZ notified vide S.O. 1366(E) dated 28.04.2017).
