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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Bench headed by its Chairperson Justice Swantanter Kumar here on Friday disposed of the Amaravati petitions, while constituting two committees to supervise the capital city construction and the implementation of the green conditions imposed by the tribunal to protect the people and the land.
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Bench headed by its Chairperson Justice Swantanter Kumar here on Friday disposed of the Amaravati petitions, while constituting two committees to supervise the capital city construction and the implementation of the green conditions imposed by the tribunal to protect the people and the land.
The Bench imposed 10 greed conditions on the AP government and directed the committees to ensure compliance of the same. These conditions are sufficient to safeguard the environmental concerns and protect the land against degeneration. No alteration of the river or the natural storm water morphology will be allowed and all green measures to clear the waste are to be in place.
To ensure proper implementation and compliance of the directions contained in this judgment and also to have requisite regulatory and supervisory control, it constituted a Supervisory Committee with an Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change as Chairman, and five members.
It also constituted an Implementation Committee with the Additional Chief Secretary, Environment of the State of Andhra Pradesh, as Chairman with four members. The Supervisory Committee shall meet at least once in three months to finalize all policy directions and the manner in which the order granting Environmental Clearance and conditions imposed in this judgment are to be carried out by the project proponent.
The Implementation Committee shall meet every month and would ensure that the directions contained in this judgment and as decided by the Supervisory Committee and/or such other conditions as are imposed in future are implemented at the ground by the project proponent. Implementation Committee shall prepare compliance and implementation report. It directed the implementation committee to a comprehensive inspection of the entire project of the capital city at Amaravati.
The committee shall submit its report to the Tribunal in every six months. However, the first report of the Committee should be placed on record after expiry of three months from the date of pronouncement of this judgment, the judgment said.
