Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
Faridabad, with 20,000 industrial units, second most polluted in NCR The ban on use of pet coke and furnace oil and a fine on six units by the NGT recently seems to have come as an eye-opener for a section of the industry, which has expressed concern over the slow …
GURGAON: Mining activities are on in full swing in Ankhir village, located along the Badkhal-Surajkund road, despite the ban on mining and restriction on construction in areas under the Natural Conservation Zone (NCZ) and Aravalis. In the middle of the Aravalis, a boundary wall has been built and the board …
The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), along with the Delhi government and CPCB, has finished drafting the “Comprehensive Action Plan”, which lists out several measures to control air pollution in the national capital. While the plan, which has been submitted to the apex court, is based on a 2012 blueprint …
Delhi, Faridabad and Varanasi have the poorest air quality among the 32 Indian cities which are connected to the web-based system National Air Quality Index Portal. Howrah, Nashik and Durgapur had the cleanest air. Average AQI for the period Nov 2015 to October 2016 was released for these cities by …
GURGAON: The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) on Thursday launched a no-plastic and no-cracker campaign to tackle air pollution this Diwali. The move came after a Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) study claimed that Faridabad, Gurgaon and Delhi witnessed the worst pollution levels on Dusshera and had an air …
Top officials of the forest department inspected the closed Bandhwari waste treatment plant (WTP) and its adjoining forest area, following complaints by environmentalists and residents that leachate from the WTP and its landfill site in the Aravalis flows out continuously, which may soon pollute groundwater of South Delhi, Gurgaon and …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Satpal & Ors. Vs. State of Haryana & Ors. dated 28/07/2016 regarding illegal extraction of groundwater by 43 bottling units, Faridabad, Haryana. CGWA has revealed in its reply that CGWA had declared the whole of Municipal Corporation of Faridabad and …
The Aravalli’s ancient forest grove is an excellent groundwater recharge zone Environmentalists have hailed the recent decision of the Haryana government to notify Mangar Bani, off Gurgaon-Faridabad road, as a no-construction belt. “We had been fighting for the status for almost a decade. It is very critical for the ecological …
The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has decided to install nine more much-needed Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS) in various districts of the state. Currently, the state has only four such stations — Gurgaon, Faridabad, Rohtak and Panchkula — to monitor air quality. The HSPCB authorities have …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Raj Kumar Jain Vs. Ruchi Gupta & Ors. dated 07/01/2016 regarding cutting of Eucalyptus trees which according to the respondents are cause of nuisance and pose danger to their dwelling places. The case is disposed of as the Applicant has …
Other than Delhi as many as fifteen of seventeen Indian cities showed levels of air pollution that far exceed the prescribed Indian standards, this as per a ranking of 17 cities covered by the National Air Quality Index (NAQI) which was released by Greenpeace (India) on Tuesday. “As the political …
The NGT, in its first hearing of a petition filed by city-based environmentalist Vivek Kamboj and Amit Chaudhery on groundwater contamination at Bandhwari on Wednesday, ordered the municipal corporations of Gurgaon and Faridabad to ensure proper dumping of waste, maintenance and collection of already dumped waste while ensuring that it …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vivek Kamboj & Anr. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 28/10/2015 regarding dumping of garbage in Gurgaon and Faridabad, Haryana. NGT directs the State of Haryana and all the concerned Authorities and Corporations that is Gurgaon and Faridabad to …
A petition on groundwater contamination at Bandhwari, the site of a waste treatment plant that has been lying defunct for almost two years and now virtually a landfill with thousands of tonnes of garbage, will come up for hearing in the National Green Tribunal on October 28. The petition has …
Groundwater in south Delhi, Gurgaon and Faridabad risks contamination by decaying municipal waste being stashed at a landfill site in the Aravalli hill area of Gurgaon. A petition filed before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) by Gurgaon residents Vivek Kamboj and Amit Chaudhery on Tuesday claimed that the Bandhwari waste …
Unauthorized harnessing of groundwater for construction purposes has caught the National Green Tribunal's attention which has issued notice to 14 builders in Delhi-NCR for extracting water flouting rules. A bench headed by NGT chairperson justice Swatanter Kumar passed the order after perusing inspection reports filed by the local commissioners who …
QRG hospital, a venture of the promoters of Havells India, was directed by the NGT to pay an environmental compensation of Rs 6.88 crore for “degrading the environment”. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday quashed the environmental clearance of a 450-bed super-specialty hospital in Faridabad and fined it Rs …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Krishan Lal Gera V/s State of Haryana & Ors. dated 25/08/2015 regarding environmental clearance for construction of super-speciality hospital at Plot No. 1, Sector-16, Faridabad, Haryana.
With Gurgaon having failed to find a place among the top two cities that would represent Haryana in the Centre's 'Smart City Challenge', chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday said the state government will develop Gurgaon as the "smartest city" on its own. "Gurgaon is already a smart city …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of M/s. Mahabir Stone Crushing Co. Ltd. Vs. Haryana State Pollution Control Board & Ors. dated 03/07/2015 regarding pollution caused by stone crushing units, Mohabatabad Zone -II, Faridabad, Haryana. The Tribunal also noted that there are saplings …
