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The elevated road is guilty on both counts. Raghav, however, said it would not be easy for GDA to do so as the case is still in NGT. “Provisions of EIA 2016 clearly state environmental clearance will not be granted to projects built on waterbodies or by disturbing the flow of a river. It won’t be easy for SEIAA to grant clearance without fully assessing the damage the project has caused to waterbodies and the Hindon river and this is going to take time. “The NGT made it amply clear that SEIAA will have to decide on the issue strictly on merit, meaning it will have to follow provisions laid down in the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification 2016,” said Raghav..