Executive Enclave that will house new PMO awaits green nod from Delhi panel

The proposal for the construction of Executive Enclave that will house the new Prime Ministers Office and the Cabinet Secretariat is yet to be cleared by the Delhi State Environment Impact Assessment Authority SEIAA official documents showAn official of the Central Public Works Department CPWD which is the project proponent said the proposal was submitted for environmental clearance in December last yearThe Delhi State Expert Appraisal Committee SEAC which vets the proposals before they are sent to SEIAA has now set up a subcommittee which will visit the site to examine the implementation of the city governments policy for tree transplantation and review the site plan in order to retain trees according to the minutes of the SEAC meeting held on SaturdayUnder the policy notified by the government in December 2020 agencies concerned are required to transplant a minimum of 80 per cent of the trees affected by their development works The benchmark tree survival rate at the end of one year of tree transplantation is 80 per centThe SEAC which first examined the proposal in a meeting on January 31 had raised concern over the CPWDs plan to remove an excessively high proportion of trees from the siteThe CPWD later revised the proposal decreasing the number of trees to be transplanted from 630 to 487 and increasing the number of trees to be retained at the site from 154 to 320In a meeting held on April 9 the SEAC decided to recommend the revised proposal to the SEIAA for grant of environmental clearanceThe SEIAA however referred the matter back to the SEAC on April 19 on a limited aspect to examine the implementation of the Tree Transplantation Policy 2020 notified by the Delhi government so that all points of the policy are complied in the project in view of the substantial tree transplantation involvedAccording to the revised proposal for the Rs 1381crore project the CPWD will maintain 1022 trees at the site so as to have a tree per 80 square metre of plot area as per the guidelines of the Union environment ministryA total of five buildings with a builtup area of 90000 square metres will be constructed at the site after demolishing the builtup area of 47000 sqmThe redevelopment of the Central Vista the nations power corridor envisages a new parliament building a common central secretariat revamped of the 3km Rajpath from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate new office and residence of the prime minister and a new vice president enclaveThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever