The bench headed by NGT Chairperson Jawad Rahim impleaded the Ministry of Environment and Forests as well as the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim, Jammu and Kashmir and West Bengal and have directed the hill states to file a report on the steps taken by them to control recurring forest fires.
The process has to be done within two weeks, and next hearing will be on 30 July 2018.
During the hearing, NGO friends pleaded to the tribunal that "nexus of timber mafia, some greedy villagers and officials" were suspected for the fire incidents which have caused severe air pollution issues in the environment.
The plea claimed that more than ‘1,300 incidents of forest blaze have taken place in the present season and more than 2,600 hectares of forest area has been ruined’ in the state.
The Uttarakhand government told the tribunal that plan has been finalised by state forest fire management and the details of the action taken are mentioned in the report.
NGT pulls up Delhi Jal Board for shirking its responsibility to control bad odor from Kondli Sewage Treatment Plant, fines Rs. 5 lakh Per Month till Compliance [READ ORDER]
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Jul 14, 2021
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has pulled up Delhi Jal Board (DJB) after noticing that it has failed to control the “bad odor” emanating from a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) in the Kondli area of Delhi. Tribunal said that DJB is held to be liable to pay a cost of 5 lakhs per month from June 1 till compliance.A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel noted that though it was earlier stated by DJB that odor control systems will be installed, no such steps have been...
NGT issues directions to states to curb elephant killing on railway tracks, takes Suo Moto Cognizance of media report
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Jul 14, 2021
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT, Principal Bench, New Delhi) initiated Suo moto proceedings on the basis of a media report which is titled “Night, early morning trains cause most elephant deaths” published in the Hindu on May 29, 2021.The report enumerated the occurrence of frequent elephant accidents caused on railway tracks running between Kottekad, Kerala and Madukkarai, Tamil Nadu. The Tribunal issued a host of directions to the concerned authorities to implement measures urgently in...
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