Environment

State govt will be fined if it is found violating green laws

Mysuru: Justice Jawad Rahim, judicial member, National Green Tribunal (NGT, New Delhi) on Saturday said that if the state government is found guilty of violating the provisions of Forest Act or env

Publication Date: 
27/06/2016
Times Of India (Mysore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Environment, Legislation, Forest Act 1988, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Ecology, Environment Clearance (EC), Environmental Security, Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
Wildlife

HC to state: Present plan for releasing captive tusker in ATR

Bilaspur: Chhattisgarh high court has asked the state government to present a plan in three weeks with regard to releasing of wild tusker kept in captivity at Achanakmar Tiger Reserve (ATR).

Publication Date: 
22/06/2016
Times Of India (Raipur)
Tags:
Chhattisgarh, Elephant, High Court, Achanakmar SA, Tiger Reserves, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), People - Animal Conflicts, Agriculture, Wildlife
Natural Disasters

Activists present ground report, picking up holes in implementation of various mitigation schemes in drought-hit states

NEW DELHI: The Centre may be pro-active in extending financial assistance to drought-hit states, but activists who visited the affected areas to monitor the situation have found that the compliance

Publication Date: 
17/06/2016
Vishwa Mohan
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Droughts, Farmers, Supreme Court, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Compensation, Subsidies, Natural Disasters
Wildlife

Stop culling of monkeys and nilgais, SC urged

Wildlife Act’s Section 62 illegal: PIL

Publication Date: 
16/06/2016
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Monkey, People - Animal Conflicts, Wildlife Act 1972, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Supreme Court, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Wildlife
Wildlife

SC to hear challenge to hunting, killing of wild animals

Petitioners also challenged the constitutional validity of section 62 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972

Publication Date: 
16/06/2016
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
People - Animal Conflicts, Supreme Court, Wildlife Act 1972, NGO, Bihar, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Himachal Pradesh, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Wildlife
Environment

NGT levies fine of Rs 1.39 crore on 132 Tripura brick kilns

Agartala: Eastern zone bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Kolkata has imposed a fine of Rs 1.39 crore on 132 brick industries of Tripura for not complying with the mandatory environment

Publication Date: 
13/06/2016
Times Of India (Guwahati)
Tags:
Tripura, Bricks, Industrial Pollution, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Environmental Security, Environment
Forests

HC asks BMC to spell out plan to increase city’s green cover

The Bombay high court on Thursday directed the BMC to spell out its policy to increase the green cover in Mumbai city.

Publication Date: 
10/06/2016
Shibu Thomas
Times Of India (Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Mumbai, Trees, Afforestation, High Court, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Forests
Natural Disasters

HC seeks data of drought migrants in Mumbai

Bombay High Court on Wednesday sought factual data of the number of people who migrated from drought areas to Mumbai.

Publication Date: 
09/06/2016
Times Of India (Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Droughts, Mumbai, High Court, Migration, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Natural Disasters
Water Resources

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding CRZ clearance for construction of retaining wall, service road along with the banks of the river Mithi, Mumbai, 31/05/2016

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jalbiradari & Others Vs Ministry of Environment & Forests & Others dated 31/05/2016 regarding grant of CRZ Clearance for construction of retaining wall, service road along with the banks of the river Mithi, Mumbai by M/s Mumbai Metropolitan Region and Development Authority (MMRD). grant of CRZ Clearance for construction of retaining wall, service road along with the banks of the river Mithi, Mumbai by M/s Mumbai Metropolitan Region and Development Authority (MMRD).

Judgement Date: 
31/05/2016
Tags:
Mithi, Rivers, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Hydrology, Coastal Regulations, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), High Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Land Encroachments, Waste Disposal, River Pollution, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Environment

NGT restrains construction agencies from throwing muck in Chenab, Tawi

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 Udh

Publication Date: 
31/05/2016
Nishikant Khajuria
Daily Excelsior (Jammu)
Tags:
Chenab, Environment Clearance (EC), Roads, Ecosystems, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Construction Industry, Industrial Pollution, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Environmental Security, Environment, Jammu & Kashmir

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