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NEW DELHI: National Green Tribunal on Monday took strong exception to the Delhi government's submission that only 41 of 700 vehicles entering the city were found to be polluting. It directed the enforcement wing of the transport department, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), weights and measures department and Delhi Police …
The National Green Tribunal on Monday questioned the Delhi government’s submission that vehicles coming from outside the capital were not causing pollution. “The Centre is saying old diesel vehicles are not causing pollution, (while) the Delhi government is saying vehicles from outside are also not causing pollution. Something must be …
PUNE: Welcoming the new guidelines by the ministry of road transport and highways regarding pedestrian facilities on national highways passing through urban areas, Pedestrians First, working into issues concerning safety of pedestrians, said the step was badly needed as national highway authority officials normally refuse to give special treatment for …
NAGPUR: Two days before the principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at Delhi will hear the NH7 tree felling case on Friday, the state government has issued guidelines on July 1, for linear projects such as widening of roads, installation of transmission lines and laying of railway lines within …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Srushti Paryavaran Mandal Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 03/07/2015 regarding felling of trees for the National Highways Authority of India's (NHAI) road widening work.
Quarrying could affect environment, should be regulated, say experts. In the past five years, Pune city and surrounding areas have registered as many as 85 cases of hill cutting, of which penalty has been paid only in nine cases while the remaining are either pending in the high court or …
NAGPUR: The union highways and transport ministry headed by Nitin Gadkari and environment ministry by Prakash Javadekar seem headed for a face-off over wildlife mitigation measures in four-laning of NH-7 and NH-6 in the Central Indian landscape. The latest report on proposed mitigation measures for maintaining habitat contiguity and reducing …
NAGPUR: After getting a rap from Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday withdrew its order that had stayed tree felling on the Mansar-Khawasa stretch of National Highway No 7. Following the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) stay to tree felling on this road passing through a …
NASHIK: The absence of a proper tree audit and census and a poorly formed tree committee have cost the city's green cover over the past few years. The Bombay high court ban on tree cutting in the city, especially for road widening, helped save many trees but illegal hacking continues …
NAGPUR: Amid strong arguments, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Delhi, on Monday continued the stay on working permission granted to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for felling trees to divert 49.246 hectare forest land for four-laning of NH7 between Mansar and Khawasa. On May 6, hearing a 500-page petition filed …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench in Pune has imposed penalties collectively worth Rs 76.20 lakh on two builders and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for environmental damage caused by illegal excavation and cutting of hills at Shindewadi near Katraj tunnel. This includes Rs 15 lakh compensation …
GURGAON: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has planned to replace conventional lights with power saving LED lights, but only on the Delhi side of the expressway. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was recently signed between Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) and NHAI, under which the entire cost of …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in New Delhi on Wednesday stayed the working permission granted to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) by the state government for diversion of 49.246 hectare forest land for the four-laning of NH7 between Mansar and Khawasa on MP border. However, by now 3,394 of …
NAGPUR: Even as tree felling between Mansar and Khawasa on NH-7 has started, debate over four-laning of the road fails to end. After TOI exposed union environment minister's Prakash Javadekar's double standards on the widening, conservationists have red-flagged violation and dilution of multiple laws in a bid to widen NH-7. …
Nagpur: With the recent ruling by principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) that Stage I clearance for linear projects like highways cannot be considered as deemed permission to start work, conservationists have termed the permission granted by the state government for road widening between Mansar and Khawasa on NH-7 …
Nagpur: The Maharashtra government on Wednesday informed the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court that they have to recover Rs 164 crore from National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and Rs44 crore from National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) for repairing the roads around Koradi that were damaged due to movement …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Babu Lal Jajoo Vs Chief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan & Others dated 04/03/2015 regarding utilisation of CAMPA funds in in the State of Rajasthan for its rightful purpose of afforestation, development and conservation of forests and …
The order by principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at Delhi to stay felling of trees for linear projects in the country even if they were granted Stage I clearance has forced the state government to put minutes of Pune meeting approving NH7 road widening on hold. City-based wildlife …
The National Green Tribunal has taken a serious view of the environment ministry's decision to allow developers of linear projects such as roads and transmission lines to fell trees in forest areas once the ministry gives an in-principle approval and before the final forest clearance is awarded. A tribunal bench …
Censuring the Maharashtra Forest Department for its dilly dallying tactics, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Thursday sternly directed it to submit its 'Forest (Wildlife) Conservation Plan' to National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) within a week. The stringent directives came when the government pleader said the forest …
