SC Issues Slew Of Directions To Curb Air Pollution In Delhi [Read Order]

On Monday, the Supreme Court passed a slew of directions to address the protracted problem of air pollution in Delhi. The bench of Justice Arun Misha and Justice Deepak Gupta has passed several directions, dealing right from the problem of stubble burning to vehicular emissions and construction dust. In this regard, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and the Governments...

"Requiem For a Falling Tree and a Failing Human"; Bombay HC Dismisses Petition u/A. 227 Due To 'Trouble' Caused By Tree

Justice Dama Seshadri Naidu sitting in the High Court of Bombay at Goa last month penned a thought provoking three-page oral order that he himself summarised as, "Requiem for a Falling Tree and a Falling Human." Justice Naidu was hearing a writ petition filed by representatives of one Vithal Sambri (now deceased) in whose residential compound a tree grew and it happened...

Involve NEERI And IIT Delhi In Your Study To Check Environmental Concerns Posed By Pyrolysis Industry : NGT To CPCB [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to involve, NEERI and IIT Delhi, while carrying out a study whether existing batch plants would be able to meet environmental concerns or Advance Batch Automated Plants, are required to address the environmental concerns, caused due to absence of proper management of End-of-Life, Tyres/Waste Tyres...

SC Constitutes Expert Panel To Suggest Alternatives To Felling Of Trees For Widening Of National Highway

The Supreme Court constituted on Thursday a committee of environment experts to suggest an alternative to felling of over 350 trees for construction of railway over bridges (ROB) and widening of National Highway-112 from Barasat to Petrapole on the Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal."This case presents the usual dilemma between environmental degradation & development. Obviously...

NGT Directs Discontinuation Of Groundwater Extraction By Two Carpet Manufacturing Units In Rewari [Read Order]

The Principal Bench of National Green Tribunal has directed ground water being extracted without NOC and without any safeguards, by two carpet manufacturing units, in Rewari, Haryana, be discontinued, till NOC is given. Bench led by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel while hearing a petition filed by one Bhim Singh, passed the direction after going through the report filed by...

NGT Asks Reliance Jio To Pay Rs 10 Lakh Compensation For Illegal Tree Felling While Laying Optical Fibre Cables[Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal has asked Reliance Jio to pay a compensation of fine of Rupees 10 lakhs for illegal cutting of trees in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh for laying underground Optic Fibre lines The issue was regarding the illegal felling of 125 Avenue trees in Kurnool District for laying Optical Fibre Cable from Nannur to Veldurthy villages. The District...

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...