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 …
Amid stiff opposition, Delhi Jal Board had launched three pilot water management and distribution projects in association with private firms. But the projects are nowhere near completion even more than two years after they were started, prompting DJB to issue showcause notices to the companies. Sources said the deadline for …
Sources said that the committee will request the NGT to ask the Uttar Pradesh government to address the issue. An inspection carried out by an expert committee constituted on the orders of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has found that the main issue of pollution with respect to the Hindon …
The National Green Tribunal today issued notice to the Delhi government and Delhi Jal Board on an NGO's plea seeking action against stainless steel pickling industries in Wazirpur here, which are not complying with mandatory pollution standards. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi passed the order after the …
The National Green Tribunal today issued notice to the Delhi government and Delhi Jal Board on an NGO's plea seeking action against stainless steel pickling industries in Wazirpur here, which are not complying with mandatory pollution standards. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi passed the order after the …
The Delhi Jal Board is setting up five decentralised Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTP) to treat effluent for non-potable purposes and bridge the demand and supply gap. According to a DJB official, a decentralised WWTP has been set up at Keshopur with a treatment capacity of 66KL/day. “Trial run of …
The Delhi government will take action against those responsible for the systematic and illegal flattening of a green swathe as big as a dozen football fields in the Yamuna floodplains of north-east Delhi. A day after Mail Today exposed the single largest case of deforestation in the Capital’s history, Delhi …
Hospitals Too Pay For Absent, Neglected Device The National Green Tribunal on Monday imposed fines ranging from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 7.5 lakh on several hospitals, hotels and malls for not having functional rainwater harvesting structures in their buildings. It fined these establishments after going through a recent inspection …
With various agencies plan and prod one another over its cleaning, flowing Yamuna remains a dream. Every toilet in Delhi flows straight into the Yamuna, turning it into a public cesspool. While various agencies plan and prod one another over its cleaning, and thousands of crores are spent, a pristine, …
In a culture to pollute environment and blame civic bodies for not doing their bit, the National Green Tribunal on Friday reminded denizens of Delhi of their fundamental duty towards protecting and cleaning environment as it announced that every household, including unauthorised, will have to pay a monthly environmental compensation …
After hundreds of crores going down the drain, another Rs. 3659 crore is needed for various measures towards rejuvenating Yamuna’s filthiest 22km stretch passing through Delhi. On Friday, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) placed a proposal before the National Green Tribunal that it would work in phases, which was accepted …
There are a number of notifications and orders on rainwater harvesting but few of them have been implemented. Experts and residents also complain that there is no policy detailing how to pursue the projects and which agency is responsible for monitoring of them. The ministry of urban development and poverty …
Policy Muddle Equally To Blame For Programme's Failure For years the city has drawn more water from the ground than what rain puts back inside. At most places, water is found at more than 50-metre depth. Aware of the approaching crisis, Delhi high court had forced the city government to …
Scheme On Backburner For 2 Yrs Despite Residents Being Keen; DJB Plans To Push It Now Record March rainfall this time could have helped the city tide over its summer water crisis had the water been tapped properly but most of it just flowed down sewers after flooding roads and …
The National Green Tribunal has banned throwing of all kinds of waste into the Hindon canal, saying its pollution is a matter of “serious” concern. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar said the “prohibitory” orders will equally apply to persons and public authorities, including Uttar Pradesh, as …
With water problem looming large over city residents, the National Green Tribunal has cracked the whip on illegal extraction of water and directed sealing of all "unauthorised" borewells operating in Vasant Vihar area here. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the sub divisional magistrate (SDM) of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Shailesh Singh Vs. Metropolitan Hotel & SPA dated 27/04/2015 regarding consent to operate given to the Metropolitan Hotel, New Delhi.
Delhi Jal Board has kept on hold a memorandum of understanding (MoU) it signed with Tata Power in January for setting up 100 water ATMs over the next two years. DJB vice-chairperson Kapil Mishra recently wrote to the DJB CEO asking why the MoU had been signed with a company …
Angry villagers in North-West Delhi on Tuesday presented Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with bottles of filthy water at the inauguration of the Bawana treatment plant, raising concerns over the water quality. Mr. Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister and Delhi Jal Board chairperson Manish Sisodia and DJB vice-chairperson Kapil Mishra were at …
In a measure aimed at controlling air pollution, the Delhi government on Tuesday decided to plant 14 lakh saplings across the capital during 2015-16. The decision was taken in a meeting held by Environment Minister Asim Ahmed Khan with various government departments, the three municipal corporations, Delhi Jal Board, NDMC, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Rahul Nagar Vs. Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Ors. dated 15/04/2015 regarding dredging in Yamuna. The Tribunal has ordered that "keeping in view of the urgency of the matter that dredging needs to be carried …
