The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today directed Noida and Gautam Budh Nagar authorities to ensure that no construction work is carried out in the 49 projects around the Okhla bird sanctuary. A bench comprising judicial members justices P Jyothimani and S N Hussain also directed the Ministry of Environment and …
New Delhi : The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday issued directions to authorities in Noida and Gautam Budh Nagar to ensure that no construction work was carried out in 49 projects around the Okhla bird sanctuary. The tribunal also pulled up the Noida Authority, the district magistrate, senior superintendent …
A National Green Tribunal (NGT) judge on Thursday warned the Uttarakhand government to stop giving permission for sand mining after a resident claimed that the state is blatantly violating the court’s recent ban on it. The application by Dehradun’s Khush Naseeb Khan claims the state, vulnerable after this year’s calamitous …
Less than a month after two IAS officers found themselves in the dock for alleged non-compliance of judicial orders on mandatory environmental clearance for mining up to five acres in Punjab, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today came down heavily on them. Principal Secretary, Department of Industries and Commerce, …
As the National Green Tribunal has banned mining or removal of sand from river beds across the country, shortage of mining material, including sand and grit, is likely to affect construction activity in Himachal Pradesh. The state government has now decided to approach the tribunal to present its side. In …
The draft Municipal Waste Rules just placed in the public domain for feedback, have identified a specific criteria for site selection ~that the landfill site has to be large enough to last for at least 20 to 25 years, with riders that it should be away from habitation clusters, forest …
Plant expected to be commissioned in three years at a cost of Rs.3 crore per mega watt The Kerala State Electricity Board has set in motion the process of setting up a 350-475-MW combined cycle power generation facility at Brahmapuram using natural gas as the feedstock. In combined cycle power …
The directorate of mines and geology has received the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) order banning sand mining from river beds in the country without license and environmental clearance (EC) from the Union ministry of environment and forests. However, in an attempt to seek relief from the ban, the state government …
The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday ordered the formation of a high-level expert committee to verify why no action has been taken by the UP government to protect the Dadri wildlife habitat in Greater Noida despite specific directions from the Union environment ministry in April 2012. The principal bench of …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday restrained Uttam Steels and Associates (Consortium) and Shiv Nadar University from any construction or reclaiming of land in the Dadri wetlands and its catchment area in Greater Noida. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the Uttar Pradesh Environment Directorate, …
The Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board (HPSPCB) has filed a case against Bagha-based JP Cements plant for having undertaken expansion of its plant without the mandatory environmental clearance in violation of the Environment Protection Act, Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, and Water (Prevention and Control of …
Environmental clearances granted last year to Public Works Department for sand quarrying in 21 places on the river beds of Coleroon and Cauvery are now under the scrutiny of the National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench here. Farmers associations such as Kollidam Aaru Pathukappu Nala Sangam and Somaswarapuram Vivsayikal Nala Pathukappu …
The Supreme Court today asked the National Green Tribunal to consider within a week the plea of Madhya Pradesh government seeking modification of its order putting a blanket ban on sand mining without any licence or environmental clearance from river beds across the country. The appeal filed through the state …
Two IAS officers are in the dock for alleged non-compliance of judicial orders on the mandatory environmental clearance for mining quarries measuring up to five acres in Punjab. The Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice to the Principal Secretary, Department of Industries and Commerce, Karan Avtar Singh. …
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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of National Green Tribunal Bar Association Vs Ministry of Environment & Forests & Others dated 14/08/2013 regarding illegal unauthorized mining in Gautam Budh Nagar, NOIDA, State of Uttar Pradesh and other states of India. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/171-2013(OA)_14Aug2013.pdf
The outrage over the suspension of Durga Shakti Nagpal, an IAS officer who was simply doing her job by checking illegal mining of sand along the rivers of Uttar Pradesh, has highlighted a crucial issue. It is now evident that illegal mining of sand from rivers and beaches is rampant …
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 …
The ruling by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) making it mandatory to get environmental clearance for mining or removal of sand from river beds including areas less than five-hectares has put both the state authorities and the construction industry in a fix. According to environmentalists and officials, the NGT’s direction …
“There is no sand mining in the 20 mining points along the stretch of River Cauvery since Sunday as the flood has made sand mining impossible. While truckers stopped mining on Sunday, we also received direction from the Public Works Department officials asking us to stop mining till we receive …
