The tribunal has directed the government to submit the ATR on the dumping ground of 100 bigha land, where Howrah city’s municipal waste have been dumped for years, by 23 May.
The eastern zone bench of National Green Tribunal has directed the Odisha Government agencies in Nayagarh district to reclaim the encroached patches reserve forestland and slap environmental compensation against the violators for damage caused to forest classified land.
Despite the ban imposed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), rat-hole coal mining continues unabated in Assam, particularly in the central part of the state.
The existing interim DSR, which was being used to justify sand mining, was invalid as it had not been submitted to SEIAA for approval, the NGT reiterated in the order.
The original application was registered suo motu by the green tribunal on the basis of the news item titled "Saving Kashmir Brown Bears is a Race Against Time Wildlife SOS and J&K Wildlife Protection Dept. take challenge" appearing in a media outlet in July 2024.
The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is the nodal agency for the project.
In a joint statement, state Kisan wing chief, Kultar Singh Sandhwan, Meet Hayer and Rupinder Kaur Ruby (All MLAs), said that cases against thousands of farmers had been registered on the charge of burning paddy straw, saying that it was a dictatorial and one-sided order even as the state and central governments were equally responsible for the sorry state of affairs.
According to Bipin Bihari Gupta, the former president and a member of the Sri Sri Lal Mohan Moulik Niranjan Ghat puja committee, rivers flowing in the town are not in a state of being worshipped anymore.
The damage to the biodiversity comes after two days, when a large number of puja revellers broke the locks of the gates of Rabindra Sarobar and trooped inside the lake.
State govt, police keep mum as NGT directives flouted for second day; security personnel are outnumbered by army of violators.
