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 Uttar Pradesh government today informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it has registered FIRs against several persons engaged in large-scale illegal mining of sand and its removal from river Yamuna and seized their vehicles and heavy machinery. The bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar was informed …
Hundreds of farmers demonstrated here today to demand the passing of the Land Acquisition Bill by Parliament, higher compensation for their lands and rehabilitation schemes for their children. Close to 700 farmers from Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of the Uttar Pradesh Congress spokesperson, Dhirendra Singh, staged a dharna at …
In a joint effort involving Noida Authority and Noida Police, a survey was conducted to identify realty projects being developed within a 10 kilometer radius of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary. The team found that around 40 developers were carrying on construction without any environmental clearance. The National Green Tribunal, in …
The National Green Tribunal on Thursday issued show-cause notices to the CEO of Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway authorities and the Gautam Budh Nagar district magistrate to explain their failure in curbing extraction of groundwater by developers despite a ban enforced in the region since January 2013. The authorities …
The National Green Tribunal on Friday directed Uttar Pradesh government to show by August 29 "definitive results" of the action taken by it to ensure implementation of the tribunal's order banning illegal sand mining in rivers and beaches across the country. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar …
The high court has sought from UP government details of FIRs and status of probes in connection with the raids conducted in Gautam Budh Nagar after suspension of Durga Nagpal. The order came from a division bench of Chief Justice Shiva Kirti Singh and Justice DK Upadhyay on a PIL, …
Says not a single environmental clearance granted for it in Gautam Budh Nagar district The Uttar Pradesh government today reluctantly admitted before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that illegal sand mining was going on in the state and not even a single environmental clearance granted for it in Gautam Budh …
Nagpal Yet To File Her Response To Chargesheet While suspended civil servant Durga Sakthi Nagpal maintained a stoic silence on the ninth day after being chargesheeted by the Uttar Pradesh government, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav was vocal in defending the government for taking action against illegal mining every time a …
There's evidence of "rampant, unscientific and illegal (sand) mining" at various locations along the Yamuna in UP's Gautam Budh Nagar district, a union ministry of environment and forest probe has found. The fi ndings could be seen as an endorsement of IAS offi cer Durga Sakthi Nagpal's crackdown on illegal …
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is in the dock for ordering the suspension of Durga Shakti Nagpal, a sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) in Gautam Budh Nagar district. Much to the discomfiture of the Samajwadi Party government, the young IAS officer’s suspension has snowballed into a big controversy, prompting the Centre …
As per the Ministry of Environment & Forest office order no. Z-11013/170/2013-IA.II(M) dated 6th August, 2013 a three member Committee comprising of Dr. Saroj, Director, MoEF, New Delhi, Shri G.C. Meena, Deputy Collector of Mines, Incharge Dehradun Office of IBM, Dehradun, Dr. K. K. Garg, Director, Regional Office of MoEF, …
The Union Environment & Forests Ministry committee has found gross illegalities in the sand mining leases of Gautam Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. The committee will submit its report to the Ministry on Friday along with photographic and documentary evidence of illegal mining in the district. Sources in the Ministry …
The Environment and Forests Ministry has constituted a committee to assess illegal mining in Uttar Pradesh and the panel will submit a report by August 9. The Ministry decided to send a team to the State after United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi wrote a letter to the Prime Minister …
The suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal by the Uttra Pradesh Government has annoyed the common people as well as the representatives of different officer lobbies throughout the country. Nagpal, who had shown courage and dared to stop the illegal sand mining while performing her duty as the Divisional …
The regional office of UP Pollution Control Board in Noida has written to the union environment ministry that it has not accorded clearances to any sand mining lease in the district in the last two years. The information has been provided to the ministry, reportedly in response to a number …
Issue came to light when UP govt suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal responsible for arrest of 15 people The ministry of environment and forests today set up a three-member committee to look into the illegal sand mining at Gautam Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. The committee includes MoEF director …
Nationwide stay on sand mining comes on plea following Nagpal suspension The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday ordered a nationwide stay on sand mining on river beds without Environment Ministry clearance. The interim order came on a petition filed by the NGT Bar Association as a reaction to the …
Not just in Gautam Budh Nagar, where former SDM Durga Shakti Nagpal is believed to have been suspended for taking on the sand mafia, illegal mining activities have shot up across UP with no fresh leases being given over the past year in the absence of environment clearances. “With no …
The National Green Tribunal today restrained sand mining without any licence or environmental clearance from river beds across the country on a plea alleging that such activities were going on in Uttar Pradesh with the “wilful connivance” of its State machinery. Widening the ambit of the plea, a Bench headed …
Amid the uproar over the suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday took judicial note of the environmental threat due to indiscriminate sand mining and prohibited such activities across the country without the necessary clearances. The tribunal passed the order on a petition …
