Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sonya Ghosh Vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 17/02/2025. The matter related to conservation and protection of Delhi Ridge which is an extension of Aravali Range extending from Tughlakabad and branching out in Wazirabad in the north …
The Enron project seems to be generating endless controversy. Since April 28, an indefinite satyagraha has been launched against the multinational company by the Enron Virodhi Sangharsha Mancha and the National Alliance for Peoples Movement at Ghuaghar in Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra. In a separate development, the Supreme Court has …
on may 5, a division bench of the Supreme Court, passed an interim order banning import of hazardous and toxic wastes. The court has directed the Centre and the states not to issue any fresh import licenses for these substances. This case has been adjourned till the first week of …
in an unprecedented move , the Spanish court recently sent a factory owner to prison for causing damage to the environment. For the first time in Europe, such a sentence has been awarded on environmental grounds. The factory owner, Jose Puignero, who owns textile firms in northeastern Spain, was sentenced …
A federal court in North Carolina, US, recently passed a landmark judgement related to smoking when it ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can regulate sales and labelling on cigarettes. The court, however, said that FDA cannot control the promotion and advertising of tobacco products. The ruling would …
ON FEBRUARY 10 this year, Machu Dandavate, the deputy chairperson of the planning commission, underlined the reason behind a phenomenon which has lately taken the country by stem. Judicial activism - the intervention of the judiciary to stem the rot, especially in the field of environment and its protection - …
AN INDUSTRIAL estate in Andhra Pradesh's (AP) Medak district, Patancheru lies just off the Hyderabad-Pune highway. Save the electricity lines that snake across the undulating landscape and the unhurried public transport, the region seems untouched by the 20th century. But an insidious by-product of industrialisation has wreaked havoc on the …
THE ridge in Delhi (the capital's 'lungs') has been mired in controversy for the past two decades for its rampant abuse. This rump of the Aravalli hills, a discontinued sparse forest of kikar, babul, shisham, neem and eucalyptus, has always absorbed pressure from a metro that is bursting at its …
THE September of 1995 left its mark on the Kullu-Manali valley in Himachal Pradesh (HP) in more ways than one, While unprecedented rains and an angry Beas river caused widespread havoc in the hills, the aftermath was marked by the exposure of a tale of alleged corruption and nepotism. On …
WHILE the courts have played their role by increasing awareness against environmental degradation and ensuring that executive agencies respect the environmental laws of the land, the results have left more questions unanswered. In Bichhri, for example, the Courts had an opportunity to penalise the polluters with exemplary Cities and resolve …
On April 16,1996, a division bench of the Supreme Court (SC) comprising Justices Kuldip Singh and S Saghir Ahmed directed the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court to constitute a special division bench to hear environment-related petitions - and the nation's first green bench was born. The SC has …
Whether the SC passed the correct executive orders • The mum are not equipped to deal with environmental issues. They do not have the expertise, the material on the basis of which they can judge the effects of what are alleged to environmentally disastrous activities. - P N BHAGWATI • …
February 13, 1996: SC orders the closure of five chemical units producing H-acid, a chemical whose production processes have been banned in the West in Bichhri, Rajasthan. April 18, 1996: Setting aside a Central notification which had permitted development activity within 200 metres (m) of a beach, the SC bans …
• Greening of the ridge with indigenous species has not started. • Many vacated parts of central ridge are being used as garbage dumps. • Parks covering 310 ha of the notified Delhi ridge area have not been given forest character. • Chandraswami's temple in Sanjay Van has started encroaching …
Bichhri: where the earth bleeds People's protests had forced the closure of Bichhri's polluting industries. The court's intervention, which was late in coming, has not helped much, Bichhri remains the same IN BICHHRI, a nondescript village near Udaipur in Rajasthan, tile wells contain, instead of clear water, a brownish cocktail …
ON DECEMBER 12, 1996, a far-reaching interim order of the Supreme Court (SC) changed the nature and extent of conservation in India at one stroke. While giving its ruling in a 1995 case filed against the Union of India by one T N Godavarman Thirumulkpad, the SC pointed out that …
Althoughetrict checking is reportecilly done on every mode of transportation from northeastern states to admit parts of the country, the forest amfla operating In the region has been reporting to various plays to dety'the Supreme Caurts ban. For instance, in order to es;cape checking, wood Is smuggled out after being …
A panel committee, formed under the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF), and headed by former MEF secretary R Rajamani, has reportedly conducted an indLpth survey on forest conservation, reasons for the loss of forest cover and the levels of degradation of forests in the northeastern states. The committee …
The Supreme Court order was issued by Justices J S Verma and B N Kripal. It stated that: • prior approval of the Centre will be required for any non-forest activity within the area of everyforest. All ongoing activity, including mining and running saw and veneer mills, within any forest …
MORE than 200 fisherfolk from Andhra Pradesh went on a hunger strike in New Delhi recently to protest against the Aquaculture Authority Bill, 1997, which would virtually nullify the Supreme Court (SC) judgement banning aquaculture in the coastal regulation zone. The bill was debated and cleared within an hour by …
People in the US can now file a lawsuit seeking less protection for endangered species. The Supreme Court of the US recently ruled that people who have suffered economic harm could use the Endangered Species Act to file lawsuits accusing the federal government of having gone overboard to protect some …
