Report on status of action taken by the Telangana State Pollution Control Board in the matter of P V Subramanya Varma Vs State of Telangana dated 15/11/2022.

The matter related to the operation of illegal and unauthorised stone crusher units in Vattinagulapally, Kokapet, Gouldoddi, Gopanpally, Kollur, Kotwalguda, Osmannagar villages in Rangareddy and Sangareddy districts. The NGT, October 14, 2022 directed the Telangana SPCB to file a report of status of action taken.

Report filed by the Office of the Collector and District Magistrate, Keonjhar on the operation of Kantipal Stone Quarry located in Anandapur tahasil, Kendujhar district, Odisha.

Report of the Joint Committee constituted in the Original Application No. 368 of 2022 in the matter of Abhilash Vs State of Telangana.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Satyadevi & Others Vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 19/10/2022.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of S. Srinivas Rao & Others Vs State of Andhra Pradesh dated 28/09/2022.

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) was directed by the NGT to issue guidelines for utilization of marble slurry and to prevent its unregulated dumping. The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board was ordered to ensure that no illegal extraction of groundwater takes place by marble polish units and industries adhere to zero liquid discharge standard and should have captive or combined slurry utilization plan.

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Ghanashyam Rout Vs State of Odisha & Others.

Action taken report filed by the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board on behalf of the Joint Committee in the matter of the National Green Tribunal order, July 20, 2022 (O.A. No. 164 of 2022).

The matter related to granite cutting and polishing units dumping marble and granite slurry on agricultural lands near Harichadrapuram railway station, Kotabommali mandal, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh.

State Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), West Bengal in its affidavit, has stated that stone crushing activity has not been included in the Schedule appended to the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006, neither is there any provision in the ‘PARIVESH Portal’ of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, for making such applications by the project proponents.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Kamlapat Vs Uttar Pradesh State Pollution Control Board & Others dated 08/08/2022.

Order of the High Court of Uttarakhand (WPPIL No. 168 of 2019) dated 03/08/2022. The matter related to a stone crusher situated at village Bhuvdevpur Patti, Hadukhata, Kotdwar, District Pauri Garhwal falls in the hill area or the plain area in terms of the policy of the state, November 19, 2016.