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 Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has directed the state Pollution Board to install online quality monitoring systems within 90 days. The aim behind this is to ensure effective compliance and strengthening of monitoring mechanism of 17 categories of highly polluting industries. These 17 categories include cement, paper and pulp, …
Statement of the Minister of Health and Family Welfare in response to Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2546 for 18th February, 2014, asked by Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari regarding diseases due to air pollution. The Minister of Health and Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad has stated in the Parliament …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the agriculture ministry to hold a meeting with Punjab, Haryana, UP and Delhi to prepare “composite” guidelines to prevent pollution caused by straw burning. A bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the agriculture ministry to also specify the manner and time frame required …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday formed a high-level expert panel to determine whether the Ganga was being polluted by industrial effluents that are discharged into it through the Simbhaoli Drain near Ghaziabad. The two-member expert panel comprises member-secretaries of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the UP …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Krishan Kant Singh & Anr. Vs. National Ganga River Basin Authority & Ors. dated 12/02/2014 regarding consent to operate granted to M/s Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd. & Distellery by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board. In its Inspection Report dated 4th …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vikrant Kumar Tongad Vs. Environment Pollution Authority & Ors. dated 11/02/2014 regarding pollution resulting from burning agricultural remnants in the open fields. NGT also directed the Ministry of Agriculture to hold a meeting of all the States including State of …
Statement of the Minister of Environment and Forests in response to Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 275 for 10 February 2014, asked by Dr. Sanjeev Ganesh Naik, Shri Sanjay Dina Patil regarding noise pollution. Minister Of Environment And Forests (Dr. M. Veerappa Moily) in response to the question stated that …
The city’s top private hospitals, including some of the most expensive ones, are flouting biomedical waste rules, says the apex body on biomedical waste in Delhi Pollution Control Committee. The committee has found 14 hospitals that have been violating important norms like waste segregation, safe disposal of used needles, keeping …
Pune: A committee set up by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has recommended uniform noise levels for sirens and horns in all vehicles. At the manufacturing stage, they should be 85 decibels of ambient noise (dBA) measured at a distance of three metres from the vehicle. A sound stronger …
Gujarat high court on Wednesday asked the state government and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to inspect five units of zero discharge machines installed with gasifiers to reduce pollution in the ceramic industrial units in Morbi. The government has been asked to get these machines inspected through a nine-member …
Letter to all State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs)/Pollution Control Committees (PCCs) in the matter of pollution control in 17 category of highly polluting industries, CETPs and common hazardous waste & biomedical waste incinerators - Regarding self monitoring of compliance.
Vide Notification G.S.R. 02 (E), dated January 02, 2014, Ministry of Environment and Forests has amended rules in respect of use of washed/blended or beneficiated coal with ash content not exceeding thirty four percent on quarterly average basis in Thermal Power Plants.
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sanjay Agnihotri V/s. Union of India & Ors.dated 04/02/2014 regarding abatement of pollution in NOIDA area, Uttar Pradesh. NGT has directed the CPCB to make a thorough study of the action plan submitted by the UP Government and give its …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Subhash C. Pandey Vs. Municipal Corporation, Bhopal & Ors. dated 04/02/2014 regarding implementation of Municipal Solid Waste (Handling & Management) Rules, 2000 in the Municipal bodies in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan & Chhattisgarh. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/58-2014(CZ)(MApp)_4Feb2014.pdf
Vellore Citizens Welfare Forum appeals to Centre, State The Vellore Citizens Welfare Forum (VCWF) has appealed to the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government to sincerely and expeditiously implement all the directions of the Supreme Court, issued on August 28, 1996, on a writ petition filed by VCWF in respect …
New Delhi: India’s air quality ranks among the lowest five countries in the world, according to a Yale University study that assessed 178 nations. The only countries below India are Pakistan, China, Nepal and Bangladesh. However, disputing reports claiming that the report — Environmental Performance Index 2014 — ranked Delhi …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ashwani Kumar Dubey Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 29/01/2014 regarding industries located in the bordering Districts of Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh and Sonbhadra. The NGT order also announced the constitution of a Committee. This Committee shall inspect the entire …
Way back in 1986, Rajiv Gandhi launched the Ganga Action Plan. But years later, after much water (sewage) and money have flowed down the river, it is as bad as it could get. Why are we failing, and what needs to be done differently to clean this and many other …
BHOPAL: The central zone bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday, served notices on Central and state government agencies following a petition filed by a Bhopal-based activist, alleging pollution in the Mandideep Industrial Area (MIA). The petitioner Subhash C Pandey also said the industrial area is flouting environmental norms, …
Environmental clearances for five major coal projects of Coal India that supply to NTPC’s three major plants — Vindyachal, Rihand and Singrauli — have been postponed. The Planning Commission has advised the coal ministry not to rush to the Union Cabinet for clearing the moratorium on mining from the projects. …
