"They wished to assess not merely the clearances granted but the clearances per se," Gupta said in a letter dated yesterday to Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh.
"Efforts were made to prepare a single report but no agreement could be reached on how the different views should be incorporated. I wanted my views to be incorporated as a minority view in different places in the report, not as a dissent note. Therefore, in the end, we decided to prepare two separate reports," she says in the letter.