Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
The environment ministry on Tuesday invited comments to a draft notification that proposes a reduced the eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) around the Okhla Bird Sanctuary (OBS) — 100 metres from the eastern, western and southern boundary and an area of 1.27km from the northern boundary. There will be a restriction on …
NOIDA: For the first time ever, the Okhla barrage, situated at the core of the Okhla Bird Sanctury, will not be drained for annual maintenance by the irrigation department in October this year. It being the peak season for the arrival of migratory birds, bird watchers and environmentalists have been …
NOIDA: The groundwater level in Noida is falling alarmingly by a metre every year, says a recently released report by the ministry of water resources, a consequence of the city's breakneck pace of urbanization that now threatens to derail it. The groundwater level, according to the report that was published …
As directed by NGT, the Ministry Of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in consultation with Standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) on 18 August 2015, approved 2014 draft notification of eco-sensitive zone around the Okhla Bird Sanctuary. The Union environment ministry announced that a final notification on this …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Akash Vashishtha & Anr. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 29/08/2014 requesting for declaring Bil Akbarpur habitat as a protected area as well as quash the Environmental Clearance (EC) granted to the Respondents (Uttam Steels …
NOIDA: Taking a serious note of violations of air and water pollution norms, the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) plans to take strict measures against offenders in Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway areas. The regional office of the department is soon going to issue notices to all under-construction …
Between 1999 and 2012, there has been an alarming depletion of Natural Conservation Zones — forests, water bodies and wasteland — in the National Capital Region. In Delhi, water bodies shrunk by 22.6%, forests by 15% and wasteland by 11% while in the NCR, the maximum depletion was in Gautam …
In a move that is likely to bring relief to thousands of home owners along Noida Expressway, a committee constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) has recommended that the Eco-Sensitive Zone around Okhla Bird Sanctuary stretch no further than 1.2 km with the DND flyway as …
LUCKNOW: In UP, the eco-sensitive zone around national parks wildlife sanctuaries does not go beyond 100 metres. The ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) says 10 km around notified protected areas should be marked as an eco-system zone but UP has not proposed marking more than 100 metres as the …
An NGT order declaring that construction within a 10-km radius of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary cannot be given completion certificates has left flat buyers and builders in the lurch. Adding to their woes, a 2005 directive of the National Board for Wildlife insists that 10 km is the radius around …
NOIDA: In an attempt to block the UP government's proposal of reducing the eco-sensitive zone around the Okhla bird sanctuary to just 100 metres, city-based environmentalists and lawyers met in Noida on Tuesday. The proposal which is currently with the Centre, pending for approval, was made to suit developers rather …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Noida Lok Manch Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 06/05/2014 regarding illegal sand mining on Indian Air Force land in Faridabad. The Tribunal noted that it was evident that there was unauthorized and illegal removal/theft …
Mail Today spotted a line of tractors being loaded with illegally mined sand on Saturday on the periphery of Gharbhara village, located along the Yamuna Expressway.Almost a year after the suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal by the Uttar Pradesh government highlighted the problem of rampant illegal sand mining …
Despite numerous rules to curb the use of plastic bags, large-scale consumption of the commodity continues unabated in Gautam Budh Nagar district and adjoining areas of Ghaziabad. UP government had enforced the Plastic and other Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Regulation of Use and Disposal) Ordinance in 2000 which prohibited the use of …
Environmental activists in Gautam Budh Nagar have written to the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary to stop rampant concretization of public spaces in Noida and Greater Noida. In a letter to the chief secretary, activists of social action for forests & environment (SAFE) highlighted instances of large-scale concretization underway in Delta …
The drastic decline in bird population at the Okhla Bird Sanctuary here due to high water level, cattle grazing and habitat disturbance is a cause of worry for policymakers, bird lovers and ornithologists. Noted conservationist T.K. Roy, who has been making frequent visits to the sanctuary to monitor resident and …
A Gautam Budh Nagar-based NGO has asked Noida Authority and UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to impose restraints upon industries from reckless extraction of groundwater so that rapidly declining tables in the district are checked. In a letter to these authorities, the NGO, Social Action for Forests & Environment (SAFE), …
Even though UP government has claimed that it is taking all steps to protect Okhla Bird Sanctuary, the forest department has ironically allowed the irrigation department to cut nearly 100 fully-grown trees for embankment strengthening in the area. Environmental experts say that only the wildlife board can allow cutting of …
Even though UP government has claimed that it is taking all steps to protect Okhla Bird Sanctuary, the forest department has ironically allowed the irrigation department to cut nearly 100 fully-grown trees for embankment strengthening in the area. Environmental experts say that only the wildlife board can allow cutting of …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Delhi government to send its proposal for an eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) around the Okhla bird sanctuary within 15 days to the ministry of environment and forests. The ministry will then consult the Delhi and UP governments and will give its decision to the …
