IMPORTANT JUDGEMENTS BY THE NATIONAL GREEN TRIBUNAL
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IMPORTANT JUDGEMENTS BY THE NATIONAL GREEN TRIBUNAL Kanika Sood Associate Litigator Legal Initiative for Forests and Environment (LIFE) [email protected]
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IMPORTANT JUDGEMENTS BY THE NATIONAL GREEN
TRIBUNALKanika Sood
Associate Litigator
Legal Initiative for Forests and Environment (LIFE)
LINEAR PROJECTS ON FOREST LAND• Milind Pariwakam v. Union of India and Ors. (13.03.2015)
IDENTIFICATION OF PRIVATE FORESTS
• Goa Foundation v. State of Goa and Ors. (18.08.2020)
Deemed Forests• Lt. Col. (Retd.) Sarvadaman Singh Oberoi v. State of Haryana & Ors.
(5.03.2019)
• Photograph dated 18.06.2017 of site before felling/ clearing forest land.
• Photograph dated 27.06.2017 of site after felling/ clearing forest land.
FELLING OF TREES AND ILLEGAL SALE OF A RESERVED FOREST
VALUE OF A TREE
• National Green Tribunal Bar Association v. Union of India (27.08.2020)
• Court on Its Own Motion v State of Himachal Pradesh (1.08.2017)
• Nishant Kumar Alag v. State of Punjab (16.08.2018)
PROTECTION OF WILDLIFE• News item published in "The Times of India" Authored by Vijay
Pinjarkar Titled "String of new road projects in Maha to cut off tiger corridors, (7.07.2020)
• News item published in "The Times of India" Authored by RiyanRamanath (16.05.2019)
PROTECTION OF BIODIVERSITY• Chandra Bhal Singh v, Union of India & Ors. (order dated 9.08.2019)
That as per the Compliance Report by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and the National Biodiversity Authority dated 13.02.2020:
(i) Out of 2,75,220 local bodies, BMCs have been constituted in 2,48,140 localbodies. Therefore, the compliance rate is more than 90%.
(ii) In the following states and Union Territories: Assam, Goa, Himachal Pradesh,Kerala, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Tripura and Lakshadweep the compliance withrespect to BMC constitution is 100%.
(iii) Out of 2,48,140 BMCs, PBRs have been prepared by 95, 252 BMCs. Thus, morethan 61% of the BMCs are yet to prepare their PBRs.
(iv) In the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, State of Bihar and Rajasthannone of the BMCs have prepared their PBRs while the State of Uttar Pradeshhas achieved 100% target in PBR preparation.
PROTECTION OF WETLANDS• Raja Muzaffar Bhat v. State of Jammu and Kashmir & Ors.
(27.08.2020)
DEFICIENCIES IN MANPOWER IN THE FOREST DEPARTMENT
• Aditya N. Prasad and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors. (10.10.2015)
Illegal logging in Arunachal Pradesh
• Jorjo Tana Tara v. Union of India and Ors. (30.08.2019)
