Showcause notice slapped on Pune's Lavasa Lake City

Friday, 26 November 2010, 23:52 IST
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New Delhi: Pune's Lavasa Lake City has run into rough weather with the Environment Ministry slapping a showcause notice on Lavasa for carrying out construction activities without its approval in 25,000 hectares. The ministry has given 15 days time to the firm asking why unauthorised structures erected by it without any environmental clearance between March 2003 to September 2006 in Mulshi and Velhe Talukas in Pune should not be demolished in its entirety. The constructions, it said, were in violation of the Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2006. The notice issued yesterday has also asked the project proponent not to carry out any construction and development activities till its reply in the matter
Source: PTI