LUCKNOW, Sept. 19 -- Lucknow-based environmentalist Alok Singh has challenged the night safari in Kukrail reserve forest before the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) in New Delhi, arguing that the rejection of three components of the original composite project has left a materially different standalone project requiring fresh clearances and safeguards.

Singh, applicant before the NGT and intervenor in the Supreme Court case Ashok Kumar Sharma vs Union of India, submitted a representation to the CEC chairperson at Indira Paryavaran Bhawan, New Delhi, on September 11, raising four challenges - that the project is impermissible in a notified reserve forest; that the environmental clearance (EC) granted by the State Environment Impact Assess...