The Supreme Court has accepted the Central Empowered Committee's recommendation recommended that the Goa-Tamnar 440KV power line be set up along the alignment of the existing powerline so that fresh forest areas are not disturbed.
The petitioner submitted that due to such arbitrary processes, the highest statutory authority in the country for wildlife conservation has been reduced to a clearance granting body, and the entire National Board for Wildlife has been diluted and subverted.