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The hundreds of crores homebuyers have invested in Noida are safe. The Centre’s draft of the redrawn eco-sensitive zone around the Okhla bird sanctuary doesn’t affect any realty project in the area, a highly placed official in the UP government said on Sunday. T The draft proposes a no-construction zone extending 1.27km from the sanctuary [...] 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 »
Amid speculation that the environment ministry is planning to make NGT a mere advisory body, lawyers, petitioners and even common people are concerned about losing an important instrument of ensuring environmental justice. After the Centre’s decision to replace the planning commission, the ministry may amend National Green Tribunal Act 2010 to strip NGT of its [...] 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 residents of the National Media Centre had approached NGT asking it to stop the construction, alleging that DLF and HUDA were encroaching on the green belt that actually belonged to them. In a recent hearing, NGT bench headed by Jyothimani pointed out that that the road widening project does not affect the residents of [...] Continue Reading »
PWD’s road widening project in Vasant Kunj, stalled over environmental concerns and strict monitoring by National Green Tribunal (NGT), has created a traffic bottleneck that refuses to go. For over a year now the traffic going from Mahipalpur towards Chattarpur has been negotiating a long bumpy and dusty stretch. A year back the PWD was [...] Continue Reading »
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has been asked by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to file an affidavit confirming that it had adhered to all the norms prior to cutting down trees for a road-widening project in the city. Mohan Dhere, tree officer of the PMC said, PMC has been asked by the tribunal to [...] Continue Reading »
