Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Pawan Kumar Somani Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 05/01/2017. The applicant (Pawan Kumar Somani) has prayed for issuance of a direction upon the respondents to first quantify the area of wet land/marshy land/low lying land/water bodies situated within the 314 acres of land given to Hindustan Motors by the West Bengal Government. Hindustan Motors proposed to set up integrated IT Township and Auto-ancillary Park.

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Ananta Kumar Das Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 03/01/2017 regarding sand mining in Baitarani river near Sanala village, Jajpur District, Odisha. NGT in its Order makes it clear that the mining based on the EC shall be done only manually and no mechanical mining shall be permitted.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Appaswamy Real Estates Ltd. Vs. The State Environment Impact Assessment Authority & Others dated 19/12/2016 regarding environmental clearance for construction activities in Tamil Nadu.

Counsel appearing for the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board shall submit a complete statement as to how much money have they received in these cases under the orders of the Tribunal and complete action plan for environmental protection and improvement in the State of Tamil Nadu.