Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding real estate projects on Yamuna flood plain, Uttar Pradesh, 09/08/2016
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of D.K. Joshi Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 09/08/2016 regarding real estates projects on Yamuna flood plain, Uttar Pradesh. This case is being heard on day to day basis on persistent request of the Project Proponents that they are suffering losses because of the interim orders passed by the Tribunal.
Tribunal directs the Registrar General – Mr. Mukesh Kumar Gupta to be appointed as Local Commissioner. The Local Commissioner would carry out the inspection and submit a complete and comprehensive report to the Tribunal, more particularly on the following.
- Whether the pillars fixed for demarcation of flood plain are in existence or not?
- Whether the pillars so fixed show apparent sign of being fixed on an artificially raised flood plain level by earth filling than the one existing on the flood plain with reference to 2010?
- What is the distance of the various points of the projects from the flood plain boundary as demarcated by the fixed pillars, to its boundary wall and the constructed project or any part thereof.