ORDER : 1. Heard both the sides. 2. The learned Attorney General for India stated that the Ministry of Environment and Forests will take a decision under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 and shall consider granting permission subject to the following conditions: “1. The applicant shall deposit a sum of Rs. 55 crores towards five times of the normal NPV (as recommended by the CEC) with interest @ 9% per annum from 1-4-2007, till the date of payment. Such payment shall be made in totality in one instalment within 4 weeks from the date of the order. 2. An SPV shall be set up under the Chairmanship of the Chief Secretary, Meghalaya with the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Meghalaya, Tribal Secretary, Meghalaya, Regional Chief Conservator of Forests, MoEF at Shillong and one reputed NGO (to be nominated by MoEF) as Members. The SPV will be set up within 4 weeks. 3. The user agency will deposit with the SPV a sum of Rs. 90 per tonne of the limestone mined from the date on which mining commenced within 4 weeks of the SPV being constituted. 4. The SPV shall follow the principles and procedure presently applied for utilisation of CAMPA money. The account will be audited by the Accountant General, Meghalaya. The money will be kept in an interest-bearing account with a nationalised bank. The Accountant General and the SPV shall file an annual report before this Honble Court detailing all the work done by it in relation to the welfare projects mandated upon it including the development of health, education, economy, irrigation and agriculture in the project area of 50 km solely for the local community and welfare of the tribals. 5. The user agency will comply with all the conditions imposed on it earlier as well as further recommendations made by the Committee constituted by MoEF under the order dated 30-3-2010, including, in particular, the following: (a) It shall prepare a detailed Catchment Area Treatment Plan. (b) It shall explore the use of surface miner technology. (c) It shall monitor ambient air quality as per New National Ambient Air Quality Standards. (d) It shall take steps to construct a sewage treatment plant and effluent treatment plant. (e) It shall discontinue any agreement for procuring limestone on the basis of disorganised and unscientific and ecologically unsustainable mining in the area. (c) It shall monitor ambient air quality as per New National Ambient Air Quality Standards. (d) It shall take steps to construct a sewage treatment plant and effluent treatment plant. (e) It shall discontinue any agreement for procuring limestone on the basis of disorganised and unscientific and ecologically unsustainable mining in the area. (f) It shall prepare a comprehensive forest rehabilitation and conservation plan covering the project as well as the surrounding area. (g) It shall prepare a comprehensive Biodiversity Management Plan to mitigate the possible impacts of mining on the surrounding forest and wildlife. (h) It shall maintain a strip of at least 100 m of forest area on the boundary of the mining area as a green belt. 6. MoEF shall take a final decision under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 for the revised environmental clearance for diversion of 116 ha of forest land, taking into consideration all the conditions stipulated hereinabove and it may impose such further conditions as it may deem proper.” 3. List on 26-4-2010 at 2.00 p.m.