Atul Aditya Pandey made chairman of environment impact assessment body

PATNA: The Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change has constituted the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority in Bihar and made Patna University’s geology department head Atul Aditya Pandey its chairman. The constitution of the body has been announced through a gazette notification issued by the central government.

Mines and geology department’s special secretary (retired) Arun Prakash has been made a member while the conservator of forest-cum-additional secretary of the department of environment, forest and climate change will be its member secretary.

The chairman and members of the authority shall hold office for a term of three years from the date of publication of the notification in the official gazette.

For the purpose of assisting the authority, the central government in consultation with the state government has constituted a nine-member State Level Expert Appraisal Committee with Zoological Survey of India Gangetic Plains regional centre in-charge Gopal Sharma as the chairman.

Other members of this appraisal committee are Ramakar Jha of NIT-Patna, Ranjan Kumar of Tata Projects Ltd, Anshumali of ISM-Dhanbad, Ajit Kumar Samaiyar of Bihar State Disaster Management Authority, Bibha Kumari of Magadh Mahila College, Mokhtarul Haque of state environment and forest department, Aditya Mohanty of Central University of South Bihar and member secretary of Bihar State Pollution Control Board.


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