Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ravi Kumar Vs Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change & Others dated 09/12/2020 regarding grant of Environmental Clearance (EC) in respect of sand/morrum/mining project for Yamuna river at Khand No. 1, 2,3 and 4, village Bendakhand, tehsil and district Banda, Uttar Pradesh. According to the appellant, four individual leases form a cluster and need to be evaluated as such instead of being evaluated separately in violation of Sustainable Sand Mining Guidelines and judgment of the Supreme Court.
The NGT directed a report to be furnished by the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change and the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority, Uttar Pradesh within one month on the matter.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/order-national-green-tribunal-regarding-grant-ec-sand-mining-river-yamuna-village-bendakhand
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/sand-mining-EC-Banda-NGT-order.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/sand-mining
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mining
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/environment-clearance-ec
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/banda-d
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/national-green-tribunal-ngt
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/court
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/uttar-pradesh