NGT sets up panel to probe kidney-related deaths in Odisha’s chromite mining belts
The committee will visit the sites in question and submit its report on an affidavit regarding the allegations made in the complaint letter within four weeks.
The committee will visit the sites in question and submit its report on an affidavit regarding the allegations made in the complaint letter within four weeks.
RTI activists Srikant Paikal and others had moved the apex green tribunal alleging that Sambalpur-based Shanti Construction Company had resorted to day broad day light of minor minerals from Tangi-Choudwar tehsil of Cuttack district.`
The case pertains to the discharge of untreated leachate into river Beas at village Rangadi, gram panchayat Shallen, Manali .
SC said there are sufficient safeguards in the plan to balance the need for development while taking care of and addressing the environmental and ecological concerns.
The Committee shall examine the matter, if necessary, visit the site concerned, collect relevant information, study the matter, and submit a detailed factual report with all relevant materials within three months, said the NGT.
According to Bipin Bihari Gupta, the former president and a member of the Sri Sri Lal Mohan Moulik Niranjan Ghat puja committee, rivers flowing in the town are not in a state of being worshipped anymore.
The damage to the biodiversity comes after two days, when a large number of puja revellers broke the locks of the gates of Rabindra Sarobar and trooped inside the lake.
State govt, police keep mum as NGT directives flouted for second day; security personnel are outnumbered by army of violators.
The National Green Tribunal in a directive to the West Bengal government on 14 October had directed it to ensure that there is no violation of its 2017 order banning any ritual for Chhath Puja or other festivals in the Rabindra Sarobar lake.
Around 30,000 devotees have been observing Chhath rituals in Rabindra Sarovar for the last few years.