Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Environment minister Ramdas Kadam has told Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) to submit the detailed project report (DPR) for rejuvenation of Nag River within two months. He promised to submit the DPR to central government himself. He warned the civic officials in a review meeting that if the deadline was not …
After the startling revelation about a Haldwani reserve forest area being used as a dumping ground came to the fore, the forest department and the Haldwani-Kathgodam Municipal Corporation have collaborated to deal with the problem. While the municipal corporation has started clearing garbage from the area, the forest department is …
The state government on Tuesday decided to scrap the river regulation zone policy. The policy made areas within two kilometres of high flood lines on either side of river basins no-development zones. Environmentalists and experts have slammed the decision and raised a number of issues. It is interesting to note …
Some others may need legislative amendments to laws The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) ordered 60 amendments to green clearance norms from the Union environment, forests and climate change ministry in September 2014. By the end of January, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and his team delivered on most of these. Some …
The Statue of Unity is likely to face a legal hurdle with a group of environment activists set to move the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the state government’s ambitious project to construct the 180-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at a distance of 3.2 km downstream of the Narmada …
It is a battle of survival that the Uttarakhand government is now fighting by vehemently opposing the Dec 2012 eco sensitive zone (ESZ) notification, declaring 4,179.59 sq km covering 100-km stretch of the Bhagirathi from Gaumukh to Uttarkashi as eco sensitive zone under the Environment Protection Act 1986, as the …
Chennai and Mumbai are the only big Indian cities with an effective system to manage biomedical waste, whereas Delhi and other north Indian state capitals have a poor record, a study has found. The survey by the International Clinical Epidemiology Network published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, covered …
The government has refuted environmentalists’ allegations that key green laws in the country would be “diluted”. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar says his aim is to improve and smoothen environmental clearance processes by bringing in them “clarity and openness” without compromising on green issues. Javadekar, who has indicated his keenness to …
The Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) has directed the commissioner of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) to stop environmental pollution and activities hazardous to health in the vicinity of the CCP's composting facility at Patto. The directions - issued under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has decided to set up a committee to plan on cleaning up River Yamuna and ordered that people who throw religious items into the Yamuna will have to pay a fine of Rs 5000 Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the …
Top environment experts have questioned the recommendations of the government-appointed committee to suggest changes to six existing environment and forest laws. In a deposition yesterday before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Forests, Science and Technology, which Congress leader Ashwani Kumar heads, eight civil society groups trashed majority recommendations …
The National Green Tribunal, Western Zone, has asked the state pollution control board to send a copy of the proposal sent to the government offices on using fly ash in two weeks during the hearing of an application by Nashik Fly Bricks Association against the ministry of environment and forests. …
Industries and local bodies will soon have to comply with 95% of environmental norms delineated by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) as per an enforcement policy drafted on directions of the National Green Tribunal. An MPCB official told TOI the policy will cover industries, operations or processes, local bodies, …
Pernem police booked 11 persons including two members of the committee appointed by the government on the directions of the high court to monitor sound pollution in Pernem, for creating a road blockade in Morjim, while protesting against noise pollution which has become a nuisance in the beach belt of …
All green (environment friendly) buildings - identified on the basis of use of water\energy conservation methods, recycled materials, solar power, natural lighting and energy self-sufficiency - across the country will get special logo in the New Year. The environment ministry is working on a methodology by factoring in the existing …
The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday directed the police to take action against those who create excessive noise on the streets during the night of December 31. The tribunal has and also asked the police to take penal action, if required. The NGT bench comprising …
Nagpur: While issuing a stern warning to the new year revellers against creating noise, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has barred mobile DJ systems operating without permission and also directed the police and RTO offices across Maharashtra to confiscate such vehicles and equipment. "Vehicles mounted with DJ systems or similar …
The blanket ban on plastic bags in the city has proved a dud. A survey by Toxics Link, an environmental NGO, has revealed massive use of plastic carry-bags. It found that the monthly use of plastic bags by about 100 vegetable and fruit vendors was over a tonne in Delhi. …
Like air pollution, level of noise pollution is also found to be on the rise in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). The government, however, admitted in the Lok Sabha that officials designated as the authority for the maintenance of ambient air quality standards of noise have not been …
