Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Nandini Chakravarty Vs State of West Bengal dated 16/04/2025.

The report filed by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board stated that an inspection was carried out on December 4, 2024 outlining several environmental violations by factories and workshops located at village Purbannapara, district Howrah. The NGT directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board to file the action taken report.

The applicant Nandini Chakravarty had also filed several photographs showing the condition and environmental violations in the area. The NGT asked the West Bengal Pollution Control Board in its action taken report to address the photographs also.

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The application was registered on the basis of a letter petition submitted in the office of the Tribunal through email dated July 18, 2024 alleging that industrial factories and workshops around the village Purbannapara located at Makardah Mouza under Domjur block, district Howrah has been causing severe environmental problems to the lives of the local people due to obnoxious gaseous effluents. It was also alleged that the Saraswati Canal has been blocked due to it being used for dumping of waste water and other industrial waste material by several industries present in the area that continue unregulated dumping of the industrial wastes also resulting in deterioration of the environment in the locale.