SRINAGAR: Unlawful mining in Romshi Nallah, Pulwama has caught the eye of the Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal (NGT), resulting in notices being issued to the District Justice of the Peace (Deputy Commissioner) of Pulwama and the J&Ok State Environmental Influence Evaluation Authority (SEIAA).
The NGT, presided over by Justice Prakash Srivastava (Chairperson) and Dr A Senthil Veil (Knowledgeable Member), responded to a petition filed by social activist Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat. The bench directed the District Justice of the Peace Pulwama and SEIAA to submit detailed reviews earlier than the subsequent listening to scheduled for February fifth, 2024.
Of their order, the NGT bench acknowledged the numerous environmental points raised within the authentic software and deemed it essential to problem notices to the respondents.
The counsel for the petitioner, Advocate Rahul Chowdhary, was instructed to serve the respondents and file an affidavit of service earlier than the subsequent listening to. Moreover, Respondent No. 2, J&Ok Setting Influence Evaluation Authority, and Respondent No. 5, District Justice of the Peace, Pulwama, had been directed to file their reviews at the very least one week earlier than the subsequent listening to.
Advocate Rahul Chowdhary knowledgeable the NGT that the mining exercise violated the Sustainable Sand Mining Tips, 2016, Enforcement & Monitoring Tips for Sand Mining, 2020, and the circumstances of Environmental Clearance (EC) dated March 4, 2022. These breaches included mining exterior the prescribed space and the usage of heavy equipment.
Dr Muzaffar, the petitioner expressed optimism that, much like the NGT’s intervention in stopping unlawful riverbed mining in Doodh Ganga since June 1st, Romshi Nallah would even be free from such actions within the coming months.
The continued case associated to Doodh Ganga has seen the Geology and Mining Division Budgam paying a Rs 1 crore penalty, with a pending Rs 32 crore sanction for restoration on NGT’s orders.
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