National Green Tribunal
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed an interim penalty of Rs 22.5 crore on 6-builders in Haryana’s Sonipat area for breaking environmental laws. As per NGT, violations are of serious nature and the compensation must have a precautionary look. The Green Tribunal imposed environment compensation of Rs 10 crore on TDI Infrastructure Ltd for [...] Continue Reading »
The NGT has finally, after a period of more than two years, given the green signal to the Public Works Department (PWD) to resume work on the expansion of the Andheria Mod-Mahipalpur road. The work on the road – which is used by hundreds of people every day to commute to Gurgaon and IGI Airport [...] Continue Reading »
In the wake of National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordering authorities to first consider translocation of trees, before allowing cutting of trees, the practice of trees translocation is set to start. Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) is going to have some translocations as many as 50 trees to speed up the construction of 13 roads in different [...] Continue Reading »
The public works department has received a go-ahead from the NGT (National Green Tribunal) to resume work on the expansion of the Andheria Mod-Mahipalpur road. This has brought a lot of relief to the hundreds of people who use the Andheria Mod-Mahipalpur road daily to access Gurgaon and IGI airport. In February 2012 the work was stalled [...] Continue Reading »
The National Green Tribunal (NGT South Zone) has given a go-ahead to the ambitious Science City project. This project is proposed to come up on 10,000 acres in Chitradurga district’s Challakere taluk. The tribunal had earlier ordered a stay on proposals by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Indian [...] Continue Reading »
The Environmentalist Mahendra Pandey, on Monday has filed a petition with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against an upcoming ‘group housing scheme’ in the Sector 150 ‘Sports City’, that is being promoted by Noida Authorities. They have claimed that the housing scheme disregards the Authorities own Noida Masterplan. Mahendra Pandey has claimed the plot falls [...] Continue Reading »
The Braj Parikrama route, spans across the three states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan. The National Green Tribunal has banned any new construction within the100 metres on both the sides of Braj Parikrama route and declared it as it as a ‘No Development Zone’. The Braj Parikrama route spans across the Mathura district of [...] Continue Reading »
In a recent ruling, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has said that no land or house/apartment will be allotted in Delhi in the future if the structures do not have rainwater-harvesting systems in place. Making the stipulation of rainwater-harvesting system mandatory for allotment of land or house/apartment in Delhi, an NGT bench headed by Chairperson [...] Continue Reading »
With the National Green Tribunal (NGT) having banned construction work in the ecologically sensitive zone within the 10km periphery of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary, uncertainty surrounds the affected realty projects in Noida; and realty buyers and investors in the mentioned region are incurring losses on their investments. The NGT’s order to stall construction in the [...] Continue Reading »
The Noida Development Authority will not be issuing completion certificates for nearly 30,000 apartments built near the Okhla Bird Sanctuary. On Tuesday Supreme Court (SC) declined to interfere with a National Green Tribunal (NGT) order restraining the Noida Development Authority to issue completion certificates. This has shattered the hopes of thousands of home buyers in NOIDA [...] Continue Reading »
