What this covers
Consent to Establish and Consent to Operate under the Water and Air Acts, prior environmental clearance under the EIA Notification, 2006, forest and wildlife clearances, coastal regulation zone approvals, and hazardous waste authorisation — including the scoping, public consultation and appraisal stages, and the conditions we expect the authority to attach.
How the Work Is Sequenced
The stages Regulatory & Environmental cases move through. Timelines depend on the case.
Permission mapping
What consents, clearances and registrations the activity needs, in what order, and what each realistically takes — done before capital is committed rather than after a notice arrives.
Application and appraisal
Preparing the application and the supporting studies, taking it through scoping, public consultation and appraisal, and negotiating the conditions the authority proposes to attach.
Condition management
Converting the conditions into a compliance calendar with named owners and reporting dates, because most enforcement action begins with a condition nobody was tracking.
Audit and remediation
Periodic review against the conditions, and a remediation plan with a timeline where there is a gap — voluntarily disclosed where that improves the position.
Challenge and defence
Reply, appeal or writ, chosen on whether the real objection is to the merits or to the procedure. Interim protection is usually the first thing that matters.
Where It Is Heard
The courts, tribunals and regulators this work comes before.
- National Green Tribunal, Principal and Southern Benches
- Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka State Pollution Control Boards
- Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the State Environment Impact Assessment Authorities
- Central and State Electricity Regulatory Commissions
- High Court of Telangana; High Court of Andhra Pradesh; High Court of Karnataka
- Supreme Court of India