Kerala High Court
The minimum distance from the boundary of a quarry to residential buildings has been cut by half to 50 metres as per a Kerala State Pollution Control Board directive. This comes in the context of the realisation by the State government that a number of quarries had closed down citing the existing distance limit, which [...] Continue Reading »
The Kerala high court on Wednesday had questioned the stance of authorities in seeking action against DLF’s apartment complex near Chilavannoor backwaters after granting permission for construction. Justice A Muhamed Mustaque had also questioned the stance of Kerala Coastal Zone Management Authority (KCZMA) and the government while considering a petition filed by the builder through [...] Continue Reading »
A Kerala High court division bench comprising Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice P R Ramachandra Menon on Monday questioned the inactivity of the state government regarding widening of national highways to 45 metres. The bench stated that land for the highways had been acquired years ago. The central and state governments have both provided [...] Continue Reading »
The state government and National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) fell under the scanner, as the Kerala High Court today served them an ultimatum of two weeks to provide sufficient reasons for delay in the development of the Kollam-Thiruvananthapuram and Alapuzha-Haripad national highways. Acting on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by one Suresh Babu, [...] Continue Reading »
A high-level coordination committee of the Congress party asked the Oommen Chandy government in Kerala to revise existing laws and bring in suitable new laws to protect the agricultural lands from getting used for constructions in the state. Till now, around seven lakh hectares of total nine lakh hectares of farm land have been either [...] Continue Reading »
A skyscarper coming up soon at Kochi has been asked to either pause the construction or change the plan. The skyscraper project by Yashoram Infra Developers Private Limited has therefore informed the Kerala High Court that this project in no ways would affect the coastal ecosystems or the backwater system. The Sky city project had [...] Continue Reading »
Kochi has witnessed a lot of garbage and waste menace in recent times. Keeping the woes in mind, Kerala High Court has asked the state Government to start up a centralised Garbage treatment plant-cum power generator within a month and present the report for the same. This initiative has been taken for effective waste management [...] Continue Reading »
It is a matter of confusion between the Scheduled Tribes and Suzlon Energy Ltd. Suzlon Energy Ltd has a land in Palakkad belonging to the tribal citizens on which it had set up a work station and two wind mills. Government had asked the local collector to allot the land to the locals. But the [...] Continue Reading »
Kochi might soon witness a sewage treatment plant. Kerala High Court has directed for the set up of the plant to the District collector of Ernakulam . For the implementation of the project it has asked to set aside 40 cents of land. It also ordered the District Collector to mark a specific part of [...] Continue Reading »
Kerala high court has come forward to pave way for residents fair living in the society taking strict measures in concern with the destruction taking place with the public properties, the court ordered immediate clearance of loss payments by the accused much before the case demands bail. Prevention of Public Property Act is concerned with [...] Continue Reading »
