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NAGPUR: The principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at Delhi on Monday issued show-cause to chief general manager (CGM) of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Nagpur, principal secretary (forests) and chief conservator of forests (CCF), asking why they should not be imprisoned and their properties confiscated for felling …
NONGPOH: Less than 24 hours after traffic was stalled for some hours on the Umiam-Jorabat Expressway due t a landslide on Saturday afternoon, a massive landslip hit the highway again on Sunday afternoon completely blocking the highway and cutting off road communication between Shillong and Guwahati. Sunday’s massive landslide, triggered …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Shrushti Paryavaran Mandal Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 07/09/2015 regarding indiscriminate felling of trees in the reserved forest area for widening of NH – 7 Mansar at the border of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh …
City-based environment protection NGO Srushti Paryavaran Mandal on Thursday served a legal notice to principal chief conservator of forests (HOFF) stating that the ongoing felling of trees on NH7 is in contempt of orders of the principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT). It has asked the department to refrain …
The traffic police have identified five alternative routes for heavy polluting vehicles. The move comes days after NGT directed the cops to submit a list of routes for non-destined trucks until the eastern and western peripheral expressways are ready . The proposal aimed at reducing air pollution in Delhi will …
Member of Legislative Council, Prathapchandra Shetty said that the sand mining and the rates fixed for the sand bags are the matter of concern and demanded clarifications over the allotment of sand blocks and also the price charged for sand. Speaking at the zilla panchayat general body meeting, here on …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought from National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to furnish imageries of the avenue forest, developed by the NHAI along the highways in the period between 5 and 10 years in order to take stock of the survival of the avenue forest. The bench …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of National Highways Authority of India Vs Government of Maharashtra & Others dated 03/09/2015 regarding diversion of forest land to the non-forest purpose in the area of Karnala Bird Sanctuary, Panvel Taluka of Raigad District, Maharashtra.
Even as the legal battle over felling of trees on NH-7 between Mansar and Khawasa is yet to be settled, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has again started felling trees on forest land. Conservationists visiting the spot found that trees were being felled in Mogra beat under Paoni …
Should there be re-plantation on the central verge of the national highways as a means to combat air pollution? The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday sought a report on the issue from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, and the Ministry …
The National Green Tribunal has issued notices to certain infrastructure agencies that were named by the ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC) in its affidavit on Friday that they were causing pollution. The tribunal has asked them why punitive action should not be initiated against their topmost officials …
Clears Rs 1,500 cr SCRIPS project, Biju Expressway "The IPR 2015 has been approved after several rounds of consultation with different administrative departments and industry associations. Stress has been laid on infrastructure development in the latest IPR. The striking feature is the grant of employment based incentives," said chief secretary …
The Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association recently moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) voicing its anguish over the increasing levels of pollution in Delhi due to trucks passing through the city despite a 2001 Supreme Court order banning those. The association of women lawyers practising in the Supreme Court and …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) informed the National Green Tribunal on Wednesday that they will be submitting a plan on the mitigation measures for movement of animals across NH7 in two weeks. The NGT has been hearing a matter …
Justice Swatanter Kumar, chairperson of National Green Tribunal (NGT), principal bench, at Delhi on Wednesday squarely blamed respondents MoEFCC, NHAI, and Maharashtra Forest Department for the NH7 road widening mess created due to Nagpur bench of Bombay high court's orders conflicting with NGT's own. Justice Kumar also spoke about how …
Caught between the devil and the deep sea on NH-7 four-laning, the Maharashtra forest department, Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC), National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), and Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have finally struck a deal over wildlife mitigation measures …
Environmentalists who had opposed the plan put forward by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to cut down around 6,000 trees on the Kazhakoottam-Mukkola stretch, have suggested an alternative to save maximum number of trees on the stretch. The greens have pointed out that around 60% of the trees …
The principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at Delhi on Monday blasted the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for not filing its reply in NH7 road widening between Mansar and Khawasa near the Pench Tiger Reserve. On Monday, Srushti Paryavaran Mandal, a city-based NGO which moved NGT against road …
Another hearing went by in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) with authorities arguing against any clampdown on vehicles to counter air pollution in the city. A petition against alarmingly poor quality in Delhi was to be heard for a final time on July 13, 14 and 15 but the matter …
VIJAYAWADA: Work on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) here is back to square one. After keeping the contractor Gammon India waiting more for nearly 12 months, the state government has directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to terminate the contract. Though the central agency is planning to go …
