The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said that it cannot understand why the Centre was resisting its order to translate the draft Environment Impact Assessment 2020 in all 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, reported PTI.
“We don’t understand why the Union government is resisting vehemently an order of this court for translating the draft into all the languages so that everyone can understand it and respond to it,” a bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan said.
The High Court said the government would need to understand the objections raised in local languages to the draft Environment Impact Assessment, or EIA. “[So], what was the harm in translating it in all the 22 languages,” the bench asked.
Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma said that the government has already received 20 lakh responses to the draft EIA and therefore it was not necessary to translate it into any more languages.
Sharma said the Consitution also does…