What Supreme Court held on NHAI projects initiated before 2020 environmental clearance relaxation was struck down

The Court had recently struck down a clause of a COVID-era notification that did away with the need to secure prior environmental clearance for the extraction of soil for linear projects such as roads, pipelines, etc.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday assured the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) that it need not halt projects where work orders were issued before the striking down of a COVID-era notification which relaxed the requirement for getting environment clearance (EC) in certain projects.

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