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India’s official audit body slams approval of Adani port expansion at Dahej | Ayaskant Das (Adani Watch, Oct 27, 2022)

27 October 2022

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Approval of an Adani Group port expansion in India has been heavily criticised by an influential government auditing agency. Dahej is in an ecologically sensitive set of estuaries that form the lifeblood of local fishing communities However, the Modi government has approved Adani’s proposal to expand the Dahej port without putting in place measures to protect the ecosystem. The controversy occurs at a time when PM Modi has become increasingly vocal about the need to protect India’s environment.

India’s premier government auditing agency, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, has indicted the Adani Group for environmental violations in the expansion of a seaport in the western coastal state of Gujarat. CAG is headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s close confidante, Girish Chandra Murmu.

In a report tabled in the Parliament of India on 8 August 2022, CAG has stated that the Adani Group failed to enunciate any mitigation measures for endangered coastal ecology while it expanded the capacity of the Dahej Port in Gujarat in a joint venture with the government-owned oil and gas company Petronet LNG.

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