Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M/s Ankur Khusal Construction LLP Vs. Union of India & Others dated 18/07/2016 regarding illegal constructions by builders, Tamil Nadu. Application disposed off. Applicant shall payy 5% of the project cost to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board. The Applicant …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked Delhi Development Authority (DDA), NOIDA authority and other departments to furnish complete details of builders and others flouting instructions about dust emission. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the authorities to furnish details within a week and inform it …
After mooting the move to do away with prior green clearances for big building projects, the Union environment ministry has delayed notifying these major changes even as the urban development ministry went ahead with its Model Building Byelaws 2016 incorporating these points. The bylaws, unveiled in March this year, promise …
Kochi: The vigilance and anti-corruption bureau (VACB) has unearthed an unholy nexus between officials, politicians and builders in the construction of 33 highrises within corporation limits and 19 others under Maradu municipality. VACB found that these buildings had violated Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms after the preliminary probe ordered by …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Sailen Mondal Vs Howrah Municipal Corporation & Others dated 06/07/2016 regarding filling up of ponds, Howrah, West Bengal. Tribunal makes it clear that the interim order dt. 23.3.2015 passed by NGT restraining the Howrah Municipal Corporation, …
Delhi may not quite be the city that never sleeps, but it certainly qualifi es as a cacophonous metro for most of 24 hours every day. Its flyovers and wide streets are well admired across the country, but they are also heavy noise generators, affecting the sanity of people who …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of D.K. Joshi Vs. Union of India & Others dated 01/07/2016 regarding construction on the flood plans of river Yamuna, Uttar Pradesh. It has been brought before thhe Tribunal that various builders/developers have violated, breached and/or trespassed on the flood plain …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Delhi Development Authority Versus Kenneth Builders & Developers Ltd. & Others regarding a public-private partnership project for the development of an area of 14.3 hectares of prime land at Tehkhand in South Delhi for the construction of 750 premium …
In an amendment to the environmental protection law, the city's legislative body yesterday increased the fine imposed on polluters to one million yuan (US$152,000), 10 times the existing 100,000-yuan maximum. Construction work on sites that generate pollution will be suspended immediately, and ports, stockyards and concrete plants are also covered …
PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to provide a complete record of action taken against those industries that are causing pollution. A division bench, comprising justices Yahya Afridi and Syed Afsar Shah, was hearing a petition filed by two construction companies, Stinger Construction Company and Durrani Construction …
Pointing out that some of the equipment used during construction work can produce noise levels of up to 100dB, Awaaz Foundation, an NGO that works towards reducing noise pollution, has demanded that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation withdraw its notification that increases the permissible time frame for construction work in one …
The Environment ministry has developed a plan for considering and clearing projects that have started constructions or made expansions without obtaining an environment clearance (EC). It has issued a draft notification recently on "environmental supplemental plan" that will review and clear these projects that have violated the environment impact assessment …
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has set aside a 2014 decision of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Pune, thereby bringing partial relief for developers of an upscale skyscraper at Oshiwara, where several top Bollywood personalities have purchased flats. The Tribunal had held that a challenge by an environmental activist to …
Bengaluru: The legislature committee probing lake encroachments has directed civic agencies to temporarily stop construction in the vicinity of waterbodies. The move could rattle site owners, homebuyers and builders whose properties are located near lakes. The panel led by K B Koliwad which met on Wednesday has ordered revenue officials …
One of the iconic residential projects in the city – TVH ‘Quadrant’– managed to get away with a penalty of Rs 1 crore for violating environmental norms. Several high-profile individuals that include members of the judiciary who invested in the project are breathing a sigh of relief. The southern bench …
CHENNAI: Within a year after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) quashed two office memoranda on projects flouting environmental norms while hearing a case involving seven reputed builders from Tamil Nadu, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has opened a new backdoor and issued a fresh draft …
Ahmedabad: The steady rise in particulate matter pollution over permissible limits has forced Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the district collectorate and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to formulate a new draft plan - a revision of the decade-old plan - to enforce air pollution control measures. This is the first …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Ashish Nawalgaria Vs Ministry of Environment and Forests & Others dated 01/06/2016 regarding Environmental Clearance (EC) granted by the State Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority, Tamil Nadu dated 15.7.2014 and demolish the multi storeyed building constructed by …
Giving an interim direction, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has restrained the concerned executing agencies from throwing any debris and muck resulting from the construction of the road from Udhampur to Banihal, in the rivers Chenab and Tawi, directly or indirectly. The direction was issued by the NGT Principal Bench, …
New Delhi: The entry of thousands of heavily loaded polluting trucks into Delhi every day could end in the next couple of years. Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari said while the two peripheral expressways currently under construction will take nearly 50% of vehicles off Delhi roads, there is a plan …
