Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to deposit Rs 2 crores for failing to execute its orders to clear legacy waste at Uruli Devachi and Phursungi, issued in 2018…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal has ordered the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to take remedial action against the three waste-to-energy plants in Ghazipur, Okhla and Narela-Bawana. The CPCB had…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has pulled up Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials for poor management of waste in the city, despite repeated timelines and assistance. At a review meeting, where Karnataka State Pollution…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the NCT Delhi and the Municipal Corporations concerned to coordinate and execute the work of remediating the legacy waste dump sites for enforcing the rule of law and…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has said that the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) is at liberty to recover a penalty from the concerned authorities for continuing environmental damage. A committee comprising the CPCB, National…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Central Pollution Control Board has filed its compliance report to the National Green Tribunal on scientific disposal of biomedical waste (BMW) during the COVID pandemic. Some of the highlights of the report, titled Scientific…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has, once again, come down heavily on the Kerala government over the continued ineffective solid waste management of Kochi’s Brahmapuram waste plant, stating that the administration failed in protecting citizens’…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has directed Chitlapakkam Town Panchayat to pay Rs 8 lakh as compensation for improper solid waste management, causing damage to the environment. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued directions for the implementation of E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016 after observing that there were huge gaps in the compliance by the State Pollution Control…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to ensure strict compliance of the Bio-medical Waste Management Rules, 2016. It also asked CPCB to ensure that the compensation regime is…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Armed forces to hold a meeting with Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to develop an in-house monitoring mechanism for scientific waste management. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Vapi Nagarpalika in Gujarat has informed the NGT that 50 tonnes of waste is generated every day within its municipality limits. Following a complaint of improper waste management, the civic body has reported that…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Chief Secretary and the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi to look into the issue of availability of suitable land for solid waste management at Ranikhera in north west…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following an order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in September, 2019, a committee comprising the Central Pollution Control Board and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has submitted its report on Pune’s Baner waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has filed a report before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) regarding the treatment of waste at its abandoned dump yard in Kureepuzha, Kollam. Most recently, the site was…
Aafrin Kidwai
Lonavla, the popular hill-station near Mumbai, has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it will treat legacy waste within the next few months. As per an affidavit filed by the Lonavla Municipal Council before…
Aafrin Kidwai
The NGT has expressed dissatisfaction regarding the management of legacy wastes in West Bengal. The bench has described the capping of the mountain of legacy wastes without biomining as illegal according to the solid waste…
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The Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) inspection of three waste to energy plants in Delhi has resulted in the discovery of high cadmium levels in fly ash at Bawana and Ghazipur plants. A report was…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee has filed its Action Taken Report (ATR) in compliance with a National Green Tribunal order dated May 20, 2020. The matter relates to the management of construction and demolition (C&D)…
Aafrin Kidwai
The NGT has expressed its disapproval at the allegedly complacent attitude of authorities in dealing with waste management in Uttar Pradesh’s Indirapuram, Vasundhara and Vaishali areas. The issue for consideration was non-compliance of Solid Waste Management Rules,…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal has said adequate steps were not being taken against unregulated dumping of solid waste on the flood plains of the Yamuna in the temple town of Vrindavan. The green panel noted…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal has directed the West Bengal Environment Department, Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, New Town Kolkata Development Authority and Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority to file a status report on the action plan to prevent…
Aafrin Kidwai
Segregation of COVID-19 biomedical waste from other biomedical waste is a must to avoid further spread of the infection and its adverse impact on public health, a bench of the National Green Tribunal headed by…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following reports of dumping of municipal solid waste in the Wular Lake, North Kashmir the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stepped in. It has sought a factual and action-taken report from the Member Secretary, State…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Maharashtra authorities to come up with an action plan to reduce waste that is affecting mangrove forests and coastal wetlands along Mumbai. The state has been asked to…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and state pollution control boards to ensure that no permit is given to any new industry which generates hazardous effluents till facilities for disposal of…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following directions of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to develop standardized technologies to assist local bodies to comply with the Solid Waste Management rules 2016, the Niti Aayog has informed the green panel that it…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) to clear civic waste dumped in an undesignated landfill in Indirapuram’s Shakti Khand area. The Tribunal gave 30 days to the civic body…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has turned down an appeal challenging the environmental clearance given to the Bandhwari Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant in Gurugram. The NGT has refused to interfere with the Environment Ministry’s clearance for…
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According to the National Green Tribunal (NGT), a schedule for the development of a WtE facility at the Pirana landfill in Ahmedabad, has been set by the state government. As reported by The Times of…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has recently issued a directive to the Delhi Government and civic bodies for submission of an action plan towards establishing a Waste-to-Energy plant and a landfill site in the city.…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) along with all civic and land agencies of Delhi have met on 3 February to decide on the Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi, as the New Indian Express reported. An official in…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Chief Secretary Punjab, Karan Avtar Singh to effectively resolve the issue at the Ludhiana Refused Drive Fuel (RDF) production plant. This directive aims at ensuring that the…
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According to Outlook India, The National Green Tribunal has directed a Noida-based association of homeowners to approach the Uttar Pradesh government and the NOIDA (New Okhla Industrial Development Authority) with its plea on the opposition…
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According to The Hindu, the National Green Tribunal is planning to set up a new WtE facility in Vellalore, Tamil Nadu. The new plant should have an intake capacity of around 192,000 tpy of waste.…
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According to India’s North Corporation, the tender process for the WtE project in Bhalswa, Delhi, has officially been launched. The existing landfill in Bhalswa has been overflowing recently. An inspection of the respective landfill site…
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This week, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has been discussing solid waste management and the use of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) as fuel in cement and brick plants of Kashmir. As reported by The Greater Kashmir,…
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Update on the controversial plans for building a WtE plant at a landfill site in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. As reported by Telegraph India, citizens opposing the plant were asked by India’s National Green Tribunal in New…
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In a hearing at the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in New Delhi, the officials of 7 biomass and power plants have complained about the quality of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) prepared at the solid waste management…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Jaypee Group to run its waste processing plant in Dadu Majra at optimum capacity, according to Tribune India. The plant has a capacity of 550 metric tons…
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India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) is increasing the pressure on the local government of Srinagar regarding the implementation of the Achan WtE project, The Kashmir Observer reports. The local administration of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir,…
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As reported by The Times of India, India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered the Noida Authority to build and make functional a waste-to-energy plant in Sector 123 of Noida, state of Uttar Pradesh near New-Delhi,…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to submit an affidavit on the status of the proposed Waste-to-Energy plant in Daruthenga, Odisha region. The new facility should prevent continuous dumping…
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According to The Hindu, the Narela-Bawana WtE plant in Delhi has been officially inaugurated. With a capacity of 24 MW, the facility is the country’s largest WtE plant now. After many delays and an intervention…
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A committee led by the urban development secretary inspected the landfills of Bhalswa, Delhi region and Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh. According to The Times of India, the inspection was directed by the National Green Tribunal in…
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A committee led by the urban development secretary inspected the landfills of Bhalswa, Delhi region and Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh. This was reported by The Times of India. The inspection was directed by the National Green…
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According to The Times of India, New Delhi’s National Green Tribunal has formally overruled a residents’ plea for relocation of the Okhla WtE plant. A fine of around USD 2.5 million was imposed on M/S…
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India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) has held the final hearing in the lawsuit against the Okhla WtE facility. However, it has reserved a final verdict so far, according to The Hindu. Local residents have claimed…
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After the Delhi Okhla WtE plant was found by India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) to operate within legal requirements, local residents have now challenged the facility’s planning permission. According to the Indian Express, plant opponents…
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According to India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT), a WtE plant is currently being planned to be set up near Bhopal, the capital of India’s Madhya Pradesh state. As announced, the facility would cost around INR…
