SC Directs Centre To Impose Mandatory Conditions For Re-Grassing Mining Area After Operations [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has directed the Central Government to impose a mandatory condition in the mining lease, mining plan and environmental clearance that re-grassing of the mining area should be undertaken by mining lease holders after mining operations.A bench comprising CJI SA Bobde, Justices Surya Kant and B R Gavai ordered so after noting that mining operations in an area results in...

NGT Yearly Round Up-2019: 20 Orders From NGT For A Greener 2020

Excess wastage of water by use of Reverse Osmosis (RO) process NGT dealt with the issue of conservation of potable water by preventing its wastage on account of unnecessary use of Reverse Osmosis9RO) systems. It was noted that the use of RO systems results in TDS level below the desirable threshold causing deficiency of calcium and other minerals. Wastage of groundwater by Delhi District Cricket Association in sprinkling RO treated groundwater on cricket ground was also considered by...

Delhi Air Pollution: Judicial Interventions In Abating Vehicular Emissions

For last few years now, Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) has been grappling with air pollution crisis. Scores of studies have emerged which attribute this state of affairs to coal-fired power plants, vehicular pollution, burning of crop residue, emissions from heavy industries, construction dust and bursting of Diwali firecrackers, among other reasons. While all these contribute to air pollution in varying percentages, most studies concur that vehicular emissions play a huge role in the...

Important Orders Of National Green Tribunal 2019

NGT Says Major Railway Stations Having Potential Of Causing Pollution Are Not Beyond Environmental Laws Of Land. While hearing a petition filed by one Saloni Singh, highlighting the pollution caused at railway stations was informed by Railways that stations are not required to obtain consent under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (The Water Act), the Air (Prevention...

NGT Refuses Relief To UP Jal Nigam, Directs To Pay Rs 1 Crore Compensation For Polluting River Ganga [Read Order]

National Green Tribunal refuse relief to UP Jal Nigam, it will have to deposit Rs 1 crore as Environmental Compensation with the Central Pollution Control Board for illegal permission granted by the Principal Secretary, Urban Development, for release of large quantity of untreated sludge and effluents directly into river Ganga on the ground of cleaning trunk sewer. A bench led by...

Take Remedial Measures To Avoid Untreated Sewage Being Discharged In River Ganga : NGT To States [Read Order]

National Green Tribunal has directed authorities in states of Uttarakhand, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal and National Mission For Clean Ganga, to ensure timely completion of all projects relating to sewage treatment by June 31, 2020, in respect of ongoing projects and by December 31, 2020 in respect of others, failing which compensation has to be paid. A bench headed...

Activist Says Road Construction Threatening Ghats In Vrindavan; NGT Seeks Ground Report

As the ancient ghats of holy town of Vrindavan face threat of losing touch with river Yamuna due to Uttar Pradesh government constructing a road on the floodplain, the National Green Tribunal has ordered verification of the allegation made by an environmental activist. The Tribunal took note of application filed by Akash Vashishtha that the Uttar Pradesh Public Works Department was constructing...

Prepare Policy For Poultry Farms : NGT To UPSPCB [Read Order]

The Principal Bench of National Green Tribunal has directed the Uttar Pradesh State Pollution Control Board to prepare an appropriate policy and take appropriate steps for the poultry farms, in question as well as other similar poultry farms in the State, to ensure control of odour, prevention of waste water discharge and for good housekeeping practices. A bench led by...

'Recognize Trees As Living Entities' : SC Issues Notices On Plea Against Felling Of Trees In UP [Read Petition ]

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued notices on a plea challenging the decision of the Uttar Pradesh government to cut around 64,000 trees along the Gomti river in Lucknow, for holding different programmes during the next year's Defence Expo. The petition filed by Sheela Barse through Advocate Prashant Padmanabhan pleaded the court to recognize trees as "Living Entities", entitled...

NGT Directs State Of Punjab To Take Remedial Steps To Check Pollution Of Rivers Satluj And Beas [Read Order]

Principal Bench of National Green Tribunal has directed the Chief Secretary, State of Punjab, to take remedial steps to check pollution of Rivers Satluj and Beas. A bench led by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel while hearing a petition filed by one Sobha Singh, directed the authorities to take steps in terms of observations and recommendations of the Committee, particularly in the...

NGT Says Major Railways Stations Having Potential Of Causing Pollution Are Not Beyond Environmental Laws Of Land [Read Order]

Principal Bench of National Green Tribunal has held that Major Railway stations, must secure Consent to Establish/Expansion and Consent to operate under the Water Act and the Air Act, within three months failing which the State Board will take necessary action under the provisions of Water and Air Act in accordance with law. A bench led by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel,...

Environmental Laws Are Required To Be Strictly Implemented In Today's World: Patna HC [Read Judgment]

The High Court of Patna led by Justice Ahsauddin Ammanullah, while delivering an oral judgement said the environmental laws in spite of being substantive law, are required to be strictly implemented in today's world and non confirming to these laws is leading to irreversibly drastic and grave evil consequences on nature and that no slackness can be afforded or permitted on this...