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 …
In 1995, India’s Parliament passed the National Environment Tribunal Act. The law was to provide compensation to victims of environmental accidents. It was to ensure special courts quickly decided damage, liability and compensation caused by industrial disasters — not only to people but to the environment also. It was passed …
Thirty years after India’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, contamination owing to the leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide pesticide factory continues to affect residents. The leak of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, killed thousands of people in …
As one enters old Bhopal’s Arif Nagar area, there are two enduring reminders of the city’s toxic legacy that goes back to a fateful winter night three decades ago, when 30 tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate gas leaked out of the Union Carbide factory. Along Berasiya Road, one of the many …
BHUBANESWAR: Notwithstanding a state government directive of June 25, 2013, against setting up brick kilns on river beds, 23 such units were found operating in Khurda and Puri districts. Since such activities lead to soil erosion, the government had asked the collectors to ban them. The Odisha State Pollution Control …
At present only courts have the authority to impose penalty on the basis of complaints filed by authorised officers; it has hardly ever led to action The Union government has finally agreed to set up an environment regulator that will have powers to appraise industrial projects. But it will not …
Proposes that a National Environment Management Authority be set up to approve projects & SPCBs be brought under it Belying the pessimism which surrounded its formation, a committee set up by the environment ministry has submitted a hard-hitting report. Among other things, the committee, headed by former cabinet secretary TSR …
The committee has suggested an umbrella law to help set up new national and state-level regulators that would also take the powers of the existing pollution control boards The T S R Subramanian committee, constituted about three months ago to review laws related to environment and forest protection, has recommended …
The Union ministry of environment, forests and climate change has directed the principal secretary of the state urban development department to issue appropriate directions to the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation to implement the Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) rules, 2011, in letter and spirit. The ministry has also sent a …
A high level committee headed by former cabinet secretary T S R Subramanian, set up to review the country's green laws and the procedures followed by the ministry of environment, forests and climate change, has suggested appropriate amendments to align them with the government's economic development agenda. In its report …
Police Chiefs To Get Report From Watchdog The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), which monitored noise across 45 locations in Mumbai during Diwali this year, will be writing to various police chiefs about the data collected by them once they bring out their final report. However, noise pollution activists say …
The Supreme Court will hear Nov 14 a plea for setting up of a regulatory authority to look into environmental matters including the impact, assessment and the enforcement of the National Forest Policy as was directed by the court in 2011. The green bench of Chief Justice H.L.Dattu, Justice Arun …
A high level committee, which has been reviewing green laws to suggest appropriate amendments to bring them in sync with the government's development goals, has got another month to finalize its report. The move comes even as the Centre is keen to change couple of key legislations during the winter …
Mid-course, the mandate of the committee was expanded to additionally review the Colonial-era legislation, the Indian Forest Act, 1927 The high-level committee reviewing all green laws has, on request, been given a month-long extension by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. The committee, headed by former cabinet secretary T …
NAGPUR: The state government's newly formulated standards for horns, sirens and multi-toned horns for vehicles will not be implemented effectively in the city. Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has not received directions to earmark 'no-honking zones' in residential areas of the city, so the cops and RTO will not have any …
Data collated over the last three years by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has shown that there was a dip in noise pollution levels in Kolhapur during this Diwali. With instructions to local distributors and manufacturers in southern India to lower levels in firecrackers, the intensity of noise was …
60% of the coal blocks had secured environment clearance and a similar number had also received their forest clearances The government has decided to transfer all existing environmental clearances of cancelled coal blocks to the new owners once the auction is completed. This will help the government avoid starting the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Saloni Singh & Others Vs. Union of India & Others dated 27/10/2014 regarding the problem of human evacuation and waste dumping along the tracks.
To Monitor Noise Levels At 45 Locations On 3 Days Of Diwali The state pollution control board will monitor noise levels at 45 select locations in the city across three days of Diwali, beginning Thursday , 24x7. Among the 45 sites that will be monitored 15 are located in the …
Panaji: The National green tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the Goa state infrastructure development corporation (GSIDC), Goa coastal zone management authority (GCZMA) and the Union ministry of environment and forests on the construction of the Keri-Tiracol bridge regarding the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) clearance to the construction. Goa Foundation, …
The high level committee constituted by the ministry of environment, forests and climate change to review environmental laws and regulations will reportedly now review the Indian Forest Act 1927, in addition to five other environmental laws. The committee set up in September, headed by TSR Subramaniam, former cabinet secretary held …
