Bhubaneswar: The ministry of environment, forest and climate change has appointed Siddhant Das as the new chairman of Central Empowered Committee (CEC), a central body which monitors and ensure compliance with orders of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of writ petitions covering subject matters of environmental clearance.
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Siddhant, who held the chairman’s post of Odisha Real Estate Regulatory Authority, has got the elevation and became the first person to hold the top post in the permanent CEC.
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Earlier, the CEC was functioning on ad-hoc basis and worked as the watchdog for issues of environmental clearances and compliances.
