Sharavathi pumped storage project: Karnataka mum on KPCL 'violations'
Documents show that the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) nodal officer last month raised a specific question on any violation of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980.
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