-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to shut down polluting industries in “critically polluted” and “severely polluted” areas across the country within three months, saying that economic development cannot take place at the cost of public health. The directions, put up on the NGT website on Tuesday, were issued on July 10 on the basis of a study carried...
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CPCB asks for pollution plan for Gurugram, Faridabad -Ritam Halder
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Central Pollution Control Board has asked Haryana State Pollution Control Board for a city-specific action plan for Faridabad and Gurugram. In a letter to the board, CPCB has also directed it to install four PM10 analysers at Vikas Sadan, Gurugram, Sector 6, Panchkula, MD University, Rohtak, and Sector 16A, Faridabad. Based on the 2011-2015 data and WHO report of 2014/2018, 102 cities that failed to meet...
More »CPCB asks NHAI why it shouldn't be fined Rs 1 crore -Ritam Halder
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Central Pollution Control Board has sent a showcause notice to National Highways Authority of India for flouting construction and demolition waste management rules at two sites — Delhi-Meerut Expressway, UP Gate to Dasna, Ghaziabad, and around the Ghazipur landfill. NHAI has been asked to explain “why the project activities, including all civil works and construction and demolition activities, should not be stopped at (the) above site”...
More »NGT directs all states to follow Haryana's example, create inventory of water bodies -Prayag Arora-Desai
-Hindustan Times The CPCB itself has been given a month’s time to publish the guidelines for restoration water bodies, not presently protected by any national legislation which protects water bodies more than 2.5 acres in size. Gurugram: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), last week, instructed all states and Union territories to follow Haryana’s example and create detailed inventories of water bodies not already protected by any law, review their existing framework...
More »Kumbh brought Allahabad to verge of an epidemic, says NGT -Banjot Kaur
-Down to Earth The tribunal has asked UP chief secretary to immediately act on the mismanaged solid waste from the pilgrimage Both the governments, at the Centre and Uttar Pradesh, claimed to have organised a 'swachh' — clean — Kumbh in the winter of 2018-19, but the National Green Tribunal seems to differ. In fact, the quasi judicial body rang alarm bells on Aprill 22, 2019 about host city Allahabad being on...
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