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 …
The National Green Tribunal has rapped the Uttar Pradesh government for not taking adequate steps to prevent discharge of pollutants in Rapti river, saying the "failure of the administration" resulted in death of more than 500 children in Gorakhpur in 2014, and announced setting up of a monitoring committee to …
Indore: Praising Indore for its Kahn river cleaning work, National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday said other cities should learn from MP’s commercial capital. On river cleaning and solid waste management, NGT’s six-judge bench on Tuesday held hearing through video conferencing, which was attended by secretaries of all states. Social …
Taking suo motu cognisance of a TOI article on 51,837 illegal industries operating in residential areas in the capital, the National Green Tribunal has directed CPCB to form a two-member expert committee to initiate action against the offenders. NGT has also directed the corporations, DSIIDC and the DDA to cooperate …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Varun Jain Vs. State of Rajasthan & Others dated 20/08/2018 regarding removal of trees for the Airport at Jaipur. The Applicant had earlier also approached the Tribunal and the NGT had permitted the Applicant to approach the concerned authority. NGT …
The Tamil Nadu government today moved the Supreme Court challenging the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order allowing mining major Vedanta to enter the administrative unit inside its Sterlite copper plant in Tuticorin. On August 9, the NGT had allowed Vedanta to enter its administrative unit inside the plant, observing that …
Chennai: Sterlite Copper on Thursday received National Green Tribunal’s conditional nod for limited access to carry on administrative functions only, but not restarting the smelter or other manufacturing operations. Posting the case for August 20, the green bench allowed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board 10 days to submit data …
The Bombay High Court (HC) has rejected a bunch of petitions filed by housing societies and private developers, challenging a 2017 National Green Tribunal order and a subsequent resolution of the government, restraining any development work on hilltops and hill-slopes and 100 meters area surrounding hills. A division bench of …
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC), Gujarat Pollution Control Board and the forests and environment department of the government of Gujarat jointly organized a public hearing on the state’s draft Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) at Dholera on Tuesday. Stakeholders and environment activists protested against exercise and demanded that another …
The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday ordered closure and registration of cases against 124 industrial units which are polluting the Kali, Krishna and Hindon rivers in six districts of western Uttar Pradesh. Observing that people have a fundamental right to clean air and water, a bench headed by NGT Chairperson …
The Tamil Nadu government is expected to submit a reply defending its position against the action taken against Sterlite. CHENNAI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) is likely to hold the final hearing on Wednesday on a petition moved by Vedanta Ltd, challenging the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board’s (TNPCB) order …
On infrastructural aid for farmers The National Green Tribunal has directed the Agriculture Ministry Secretary to file a status report on infrastructural assistance to be provided to farmers to stop stubble burning. Directing the authorities to submit the report within six weeks, a Bench said, “As per estimates of the …
The method being used for the 'revival', however, has irked environment activists. According to activists, the concretisation and laying down of the sheets will only aid in killing the lake. After months of it running bone dry, there is frenzied activity at the iconic lake at Purana Qila. The National …
NEW DELHI: A year after the National Green Tribunal banned the use of any synthetic thread coated with glass or other abrasives for flying kites, the so-called Chinese manjha continues to be surreptitiously sold in the capital. Mindful of the risks to human lives caused by this sharp string, Imran …
Asks Central Pollution Control Board to get expert opinion The National Green Tribunal has granted an interim injunction restraining Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) from upscaling the mercury remediation process at Kodaikanal till the next hearing in the case on October 4. The tribunal has also directed the Central Pollution Control …
However, despite several orders by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), no concrete steps have been taken by the authorities In the face of government apathy towards reviving water bodies in Delhi, locals and volunteers in the parched Dwarka area have successfully revived two such ponds recently. While the area in …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) to look into the alleged cutting of 100 trees in a park at the Tyagraj Nagar market here during the construction of the second phase of the Barapullah elevated corridor. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice …
NEW DELHI: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the states in the national capital region (NCR) to file reports on compliance to the graded response action plan (GRAP) notified by the Centre. While disposing of a four-year-old case on air pollution in Delhi filed by advocate Vardhaman Kaushik, NGT also …
Construction for 2,000 Mw began more than 13 years earlier but has been stalled on ecological concerns; panel of experts to reassess also stuck at NGT The fate of what could have been the country’s largest hydropower project is stuck on the composition of a committee. In May, the National …
Says they will not be permitted to ply in Delhi-NCR Reiterating its previous orders, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has held that diesel vehicles that are 10-year-old will not be permitted to ply in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). A Bench headed by NGT chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel …
National Green Tribunal on Wednesday again held that 10-year-old diesel vehicles would not ply in Delhi and National Capital Region. The directions were issued after a bench headed by chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel disposed of a nearly four-year-old case on air pollution in the capital. The order further stated …
