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 orders were issued by NGT’s Principal Bench consisting of Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, Judicial member Justice Sudhir Agarwal and expert member Prof A Senthil Vel.
The NGT, pronouncing an interim order of a five-year-old petition, asked the Woodhill Hillways (JV) and Hillways Construction Company Private limited to deposit the amount with the State Pollution Control Board within two months.
That was in gross violation of the mining plan as well as the environmental clearance, Sankar Prasad Pani, counsel for the petitioner, had pointed out.
A NGT bench headed by its chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, in an order passed on February 23, observed that the abattoir was discharging untreated effluent and abstracting groundwater illegally.
A six-member special bench of NGT, disposing of two separate petitions on the alleged damage to the environment and the riverine ecosystem in the Mahanadi river bed within the water area of Jobra Barrage at Cuttack, imposed ban on permanent construction and eviction of illegal encroachments on the riverbed and floodplain areas of the river
