Why the hurry for wildlife clearances for infrastructure projects?

If we are to believe Padmanabhan G, then normal life got affected & people 's attention got diverted to gathering info about Corona, collecting / hoarding food and essentials, sanitizing etc and Govt got the chance to clear projects without the knowledge of the affected people and environment. In case GOI have taken necessary clearances then no problem. more  

The period of extended lockdown has been one of virtual interaction with loved ones after years. The biggest bonus for me has been reconnecting with my school mates – many of them women – spread all across the country, after over 30 years. We barely spoke to each other then, but we don’t shy away from cracking jokes or making fun of each other now. For me, it is almost like a revolution as girls and boys used to live completely different lives during our school days Even in such informal groups with newfound bonhomie after years of separation, whenever I post something critical of how the government has tackled the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing crisis, the common response is invariably “But PM Modi remains our best bet to take us out of the current crisis” more  

The economy will suffer in FY 2020, which started in April, due to containment measures and weaker external demand. A key downside risk is a significant prolongation of the national lockdown. More positively, however, fiscal stimulus should cushion the economic blow, as should looser monetary policy. Our panelists project GDP growth of 1.4% in FY 2020, which is down 3.9 percentage points from last month's forecast, and 6.7% in FY 2021 more  

These days/Generation there are few Nation Builder Politicians But Just Who Will Grab Power By Wealth and Make more Wealth after winning an election more  

The first is that the Modi regime is bent on suppression of dissent and denial of civil liberties and displays an autocratic mindset worsened by State vendetta against opponents All this is ostensibly rooted in the right-wing 'fascist' ideology of the Bhartiya Janata Party, which, in turn, is the cat's paw of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh I refuse to concede that I am second to anyone in my passion for fostering of freedoms However searchingly I may look at happenings in the country, I see no shred of evidence in this regard Nor have the nattering nabobs of negativism (to borrow Spiro Agnew's words) offered any shred of evidence other than rhetoric. They go on repeating this charge in the Goebbelsian belief that it may stick Unfortunately for them, the electorate has rejected, and will reject yet again, the practitioners of such tactics I have a few questions to ask of them: Why do people like them bristle at any comment at all on Muslims, and call it 'communalisation', and take cudgels against the person commenting? Why do Indians of their ilk find it obligatory to become the spokespersons and apologists of Muslims? Don't Muslims have their own kind -- fully 200 million of them with their own associations and organisations -- to take that role? Has this peculiar class of Indians witnessed any similar phenomenon in other 'secular' countries such as France, the UK, the USA, Japan where native public and political figures jump to become spokespersons of Hindus resident there if they are commented upon? Will other religionists have the freedom to do so in Muslim-dominant countries? If someone mentions the possibility of the Tablighi Jamaat congregation being a source of spike in coronavirus cases, why does this class of Indians get rattled? Why don't they leave it to the Tablighi Jamaat to convince the people that they took all precautions not to be the source of infection? The second line of attack of Modi-baiters is demonetisation. On this particular obsession of theirs, they are like a dog with a bone: They will never let go despite being told again and again that the average resident of the real Bharat saw demonetisation as a well-intentioned and much-needed catharsis which was worth its while That was why while the English-educated, Western-oriented so-called intellectuals were tearing their hair ascribing all kinds of tortures to it, the people in the mass patiently and peacefully stood in queues before banks and put up with the inconveniences that were part of a massive nationwide operation that had to be inevitably undertaken as a surprise. There was not one instance of riot or law and order disturbance over it in a country which was called a functioning anarchy It might not have yielded all that was expected of it, but it cleansed the system, and made the tax returns and collections jump to phenomenal levels The glitches in the implementation of GST and the number of course corrections that had to be made are their third strident charge They forget that it is a historic first the multiplier effect of which will be of incalculable benefit jacking up the economy to unprecedented heights in future years The fourth is the so-called unpreparedness about the corona crisis, especially with reference to the migrant labour and the inadequacy of the relief package It was a literally a life-and-death operation on a continental scale and whatever initial wrinkles were there are being smoothened and things look like settling down All one needs to do to get a sense of this is to just have a look at the way the world's most affluent, militarily the most powerful, technologically the most advanced, and as the world's policeman and mentor, the most pretentious, the United States of America, no less, is bungling the handling of the crisis Look at the chaos that prevails in most other advanced countries and the predicament they are in It is impossible to keep one's head, when everybody else is so determinedly losing his But India is doing the impossible, despite all its institutional, systemic and resource constraints, its vast population, its complexities and diversities, and the tendency of its denizens to pull in different directions more