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.
The high-level committee constituted by NGT for rejuvenation of Yamuna has chalked out a six month action plan till June 2023, with monthly targets, and the same will be monitored on weekly basis.
The Kolkata-based NGT Eastern Zone bench stayed the construction activities on the ground that the allotted plot was classified in “Nayanjori” category through which, storm water is discharged.
The move of the Central government may have far-reaching socio-political and implications in the wake of tension between the Centre and the state.
Cleaning and rejuvenation efforts are on for the drain..NGT chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, after the inspection, hoped that the efforts would fetch desirable results, in terms of reducing pollution in the Yamuna, as also revival of the Sahibi River.
On the third day of Chhath Puja 2022, the Delhi administration officials decorated the ITO Ghat near the Yamuna river for devotes to offer prayers on Arghya to the setting sun and on Usha Arghya to the rising sun.