ngt: NGT directs highway construction firm to pay Rs 55.47 crore for causing environmental damage

The Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal (NGT) has ordered a freeway building corporate to pay Rs 55.47 crore for inflicting environmental injury via illegally excavating stone, sand and murram for its tasks within the Nashik and Hingoli districts of Maharashtra. In two separate orders on February 22, NGT‘s western zone bench in Pune directed Rajendrasinh Bhamboo Infra Personal Restricted to pay Rs 36.35 crore and Rs 19.12 crore to the Maharashtra Air pollution Keep watch over Board inside of a month.

The detailed orders have been made to be had just lately.

“We discover that for the reason that process of mining has been performed via the venture proponent (Rajendrasinh Bhamboo Infra) with out taking prior environmental clearance, the similar is handled to be violation which affects the surroundings adversely,” mentioned the fairway tribunal in one in every of its orders.

One Dattatraya Phalke had filed pleas with the tribunal pronouncing that the corporate be blacklisted for having time and again “violated environmental norms for its business advantages”.

The tribunal had previous punished the corporate via enforcing “environmental reimbursement” nevertheless it continues to violate the environmental norms, mentioned petitioner Phalke.

As in step with the pleas, the company intentionally didn’t download “prior environmental clearance for its venture at Kalamnuri in Hingoli and has illegally excavated greater than 4,50,000 brass of stones, murom and sand”.

For its venture at Nandgaon in Nashik district, the corporate has performed unlawful mining of 25,000 brass of equivalent building fabrics, the plea added.