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) …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Samir Mehta Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 23/05/2017 regarding open defecation and waste dumping on Yamuna floodplains. NGT directs that the Central Pollution Control Board and the various State Boards in consultation with the Municipal Corporations and the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Arvind Press Caps Limited Vs. Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board dated 22/05/2017 regarding pollution caused by industries in RIICO Industries Area, Bhiwadi, Rajasthan. NGT makes it clear that besides the recommendations made by the joint inspection team, each of the …
KAMPALA, UGANDA - Emmanuel Mpaka lives in Bukasa at the edge of Lake Victoria and has done so since 2011. He has built a house and a business there - a drinks bar that does well in the dry seasons. Now the government says he must move. Mpaka and more …
In a landmark verdict, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) today ruled that any vehicle found over-speeding inside the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) will have to pay an environment compensation of Rs 5,000 besides challan under the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act. The order of a bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice …
The Telangana government on Wednesday night notified The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Telangana Amendment) Act. The Act had received the President's assent last week and was notified by the Union home ministry on Wednesday. Taking cue from the Centre, the state government …
In the memorandum, the farmers' organisation said Ravirajsinh was a poor farmer who committed suicide due to crop failure and debt. Kalavad Taluka Khedut Hit Rakshak Samiti, a farmers’ organisation made a representation and submitted a memorandum to local mamlatdar on Wednesday demanding compensation to kin of a farmer who …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Baljeet Singh Vs. UOI & Ors. dated 16/05/2017 regarding illegal sand mining along Neugal river, Palampur District, Himachal Pradesh. NGT directs the miners whose tractors have been impounded to pay environmental compensation of Rs. 7,500 each which would be paid …
Lagos, Yenagoa and Abuja — The coastal community of Ikebiri in Southern Ijaw Local Council Area of Bayelsa State has taken ENI, the parent company of Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to an Italian court seeking compensation for oil spill. The Head of Legal Resources at Environmental Rights Action/Friends of …
New Delhi: Residents of Sukhdev Vihar have moved the Supreme Court recently against the Okhla waste-to-energy plant which was allegedly causing severe air pollution around their colony. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) which was hearing residents' appeal to shut down the plant had allowed the plant while imposing an environment …
Payment of compensation to endosulfan victims Despite the National Human Rights Commission’s (NHRC) recommendation to the State in December, 2010 to provide compensation to endosulfan victims, over 3,000 persons who are in the official list have not received any payment so far. Of the 5,848 victims who found place in …
The inquiry comes at a time of heightened land conflicts across the country. Whether it will provide the necessary answers remains to be seen. Red flags ahead: The emergence of politically and financially connected groups and individuals with the means to buy land, contests between herders and cultivators, areas seen …
Hundreds of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) members led by well-known social activist Medha Patkar laid siege to the state secretariat in Bhopal till 10.30pm on Thursday. They were insisting upon meeting chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan but their siege went in vain. Patkar said chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who …
Stubble burning is continuing unabated in the district despite ban. It is causing air pollution and affecting soil fertility. The Agriculture Department has got registered 65 FIRs this season and imposed a fine of Rs 75,000 as environment compensation on the defaulters. Sources said this was the figure given by …
A Swiss court issued a ruling obliging Egypt to pay a compensation of $2bn to Ampal-American Israel Corporation for the damage caused by the cessation of the export of natural gas from Egypt to Israel in 2012. Government sources revealed Egypt’s intention to negotiate in order to reach a solution …
The banned practice of garbage burning continues unabated in the city. Strangely, the Municipal Corporation chooses to ignore the banned practice. Worse still, the MC employees, it is learnt, are openly flouting the ban. Instead of disposing the garbage in eco-friendly way, they pile it up along with dried leaves …
Seven-hundred young people who were sickened by tainted tap water in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan 16 years ago will collect government compensation, the provincial government said on Wednesday. Between 6,000 and 7,000 people became ill in 2001 after a parasite entered the drinking water system in North Battleford, a …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shailesh Singh Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 27/04/2017 regarding distilleries causing pollution to water bodies by extracting groundwater and simultaneously discharging large quantity of effluent/waste water without treatment into river Ganga through river Rapti and Ghaghra, Uttar …
Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and his Art of Living Foundation earned a severe rebuke from the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) Principal Bench on Thursday, after Ravi Shankar’s statement slamming the Tribunal for “delaying natural justice” was read out to them. Senior Advocate Sanjay Parikh, appearing for petitioner Manoj …
Panaji: The Goa government has mooted the concept of transfer of development rights (TDR) in a bid to protect and conserve eco-sensitive areas, salt pans, mangroves, and even heritage homes. The issue was discussed at a meeting of town and country planning department, which was attended by the chief minister …
Recommends physical and biological ecological rehabilitation The Yamuna floodplains, damaged during the Art of Living (AoL) foundation's 2016 World Culture Festival, will require "physical and biological" rehabilitation at an estimated cost of Rs 42 crore and may take ten years to complete, a National Green Tribunal (NGT) appointed expert panel …
