State approvals hold up Rs. 2 lakh cr projects

About Rs. 2,00,000 crore worth of key infrastructure projects are stuck due to delay in receiving state approvals. Of the 107 projects cited by the Cabinet Committee on Investments (CCI) as been delayed because of environmental reasons, about 103 are related to issues concerned state governments. “We have asked the states to process these projects and most of them are related to diversion of forestland,” an official said.

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