July 23, 2020: National Green Tribunal khan para ekta committee bonaishe Tikak Open Cast Project Saleki Proposed Reserve Forest Assam”s Digboi town bithor te mining approve kuribole laga plea te challenge kura nimete bonaikena report dibole janaishe.
Justice S P Wangdi aro expert member Nagin Nanda laga bench para Central Pollution Control Board, State Pollution Control Board, State Environment Impact Assessment Authority of Assam, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests aro expert IIT-Guwahati laga thakishe.
Etu factual situation sabole nimete aro plea te statement diya toh verify kuribole nimete ami khan para committee bonabole lagi thakishe.
Bench para koishe notice diya sa,au te parties khan ke etu case te koishe “etu committee para etu spot te jaikena aro factual aspects khan application khan diya aro report dibole nimete .State PCB ton nodal agency thakibo coordination nimete aro logistic support dibole nimete.”
NGT koishe ki Etu event te infractions khan thakishe kuwa nishena aro appropriate action kanoon hisaab tee dibo ase remedial measures loikena.
Committee ke hokum dishe tai khan laga report toh September 10 tak dibole nimete.etu environment activists Pradip Bhuyan and Joydeep Bhuyan para olop akhe te Standing Committee of the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL), para approval dikena 98.59 hectares Reserve Forest land chulabole nimete proposal te Saleki Proposed reserve Forest para te.
Etu petition advocate Sanjay Upadhyay, para file kurishe aro koishe Standing Committee of the National Board of Wildlife, khan para tai khan laga 57th Meeting dated April 7, 2020 te okobi legal aro factual consideration nathakikena etu proposal ke recommend kurikena violation toh regularize kurikena Forest Conservation Act, 1980, viz area te illegally broken up areas te kuntu te tai khan etia thaka kanoon bithor te power thakanai.
Plea te koishe” State (Assam) government khan Forest Advisory Committee laga recommendation tew compile kuranai etu bi Part -II of Form A laga study hisaab te aro user agency khan mining operations khan kuri thakishe authorities khan para hokum diya pichede bi”
Petition te koishe NBWL laga recommendation toh etu stationary process note toh consider kuribole paranai aro etu te illegal mining aro action khan lobole koishe hoilebi clearance aro permits khan dishe etu next stage te jabole nimete illegal mining activity toh ignore kurikena.
Aro koishe ki etu decision para Environment Protection Act, 1986 violate kurishe aro Ecologically Sensitive Zones/Ecologically Sensitive Areas laga concept toh etu said act bithor te cover kurishe.
Assam Forest department khan para akhe te Rs 43.25 crore PSU major Coal India Ltd te penalty dishe etu bi reserve forest laga bithor te 16 sal para 2003 para shuru kurikena chuli thakishe.
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