Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Abhishek Panwar Vs Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board & Others dated 20/05/2025. The miscellaneous application was registered on the basis of the report of the joint committee dated July 20, 2024 filed by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) …
Barisal: Extensive use of firewood in brick kilns is exerting huge pressure on forests as well as posing a threat to the environment in the district. The DoE sources said some 1.17 million maunds of firewood are being used in 157 brick fields in 10 upazilas of the district illegally …
To check the pollution emanating from brick kilns, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) and the office of the Deputy Commissioner to close kilns running without the Environmental Clearance Certificate. The directive followed a petition Suresh Kumar Sharma. The court observed that …
High Court (HC) directed Chairman Jammu & Kashmir Pollution Control Board (JKPCB) for closure of brick kilns operating without obtaining ‘Environment Clearance Certificate’. Justice Tashi Rabstan of J&K; High Court directed Chairman JKPCB for closure of all brick kilns in J&K; operating without obtaining ‘Environmental Clearance Certificate’ from the authority. …
More than 1.2 lakh of the total 1.4 lakh brick kilns in the country and around 2,600 of the total 2,700 brick kilns in Punjab have been non-functional for over three months for want of environment clearance certificates from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. The state government is …
The National Board of Revenue is set to exclude hundreds of brick fields from the list of polluting industries for surcharge imposition due to contradiction in the definition of industry and establishment specified in the law and rules, officials said. Hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres may also be excluded from …
Application of bio-fuel by-product sugarcane bagasse ash (SBA) as a principal raw material for the manufacturing of bricks was studied. The bricks were developed using the quarry dust as a replacement to natural river sand and lime as a binder. Original Source
PANAJI: More than 200 roadside concrete block manufacturing units will be closed down by the Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) for creating nuisance and environmental pollution in the area. GSPCB chairman Jose Manuel Noronha said that board has already issued closure notices to 30 concrete block manufacturing units in …
Even as mushrooming brick kilns in the State has generated huge environmental concern, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed its Special Rapporteur to examine the gravity of the situation in Puri district. The Special Rapporteur, Damodar Sarangi, has been asked to visit the district and make an on …
Shut-down notices issued to 30 units The illegal cement brick units mushrooming along the roadside have finally come under the scanner of Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB), which has issued shut-down notices to nearly 30 units. The Board has identified over 200 such units operating without consent to operate …
A parliamentary body yesterday asked the forest and environment ministry to take punitive action against the owners who have failed to transform their brick factories through the use of environment-friendly zig-zag technology and are consequently contributing to pollution. The parliamentary standing committee on forest and environment also asked the ministry …
The brick kiln owners do not want to invest more money for installing zigzag chimneys The Environment Ministry and the parliamentary watchdog on the ministry yesterday agreed that the environment courts could not be effective because of conflicting laws. The environment act and the environment court act conflicted each other …
KARACHI: Pakistan is a country of 188 million people with average population density of 236 persons per square kilometre, which is higher as compared to many other developing countries. The country has very high migration rate to urban centres which has made the cities very congested and turned the civic …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Pramod Sharma & Ors. Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 03/07/2014 on the issue of obtaining consent for operating brick kilns before the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board under Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) …
Nearly 70 per cent brick kilns of the country are yet to adopt environment-friendly brick making technology to reduce pollution as the deadline for doing so expires on June 30. However, brick manufacturers said that deadline or time extension are not the solution rather the government should give some more …
A mobile court yesterday fined owners of four brick fields in Poba upazila under the district and closed one of those for causing huge losses to agricultural products by emitting black smoke. The brick field of Abdus Salam at Horian village was closed and the owner fined Tk 50,000 for …
The Department of Environment (DoE) is set to take legal actions against brick kilns in 16 north-western districts, which had previously been identified as environmentally hazardous. Md Abdul Mazid, division director of the department in Bogra, said the DoE has decided to launch legal actions against more than a thousand …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Ravinder Kumar Sharma & Ors. V/s State of Jammu & Kashmir & Ors. dated 30/05/2014 regarding brick kilns in the State of J&K. Previous Orders
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Ravinder Kumar Sharma & Ors. V/s State of Jammu & Kashmir & Ors. dated 13/05/2014 regarding indiscriminately digging the earth for the purpose of making bricks, without approval, resulting to an ecological imbalance in the State …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Ravinder Kumar Sharma & Ors. Vs State of Jammu & Kashmir & Ors. dated 17/04/2014 regarding running of brick kiln in Tehsil & District Rajouri of Jammu and Kashmir. It is stated that the respondents are …
A good number of brick kilns are operating along the Mumbai highway between Nellore and Atmakur, a fact that has triggered concern among those who travel frequently on this highway. The authorities have time and again asked the owners of these kilns to shift to interior places but they feel …
