Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Report of joint committee in compliance of the National Green Tribunal order, January, 5, 2022 (in the matter of OA No. 70 of 2021 - Brackish Water Research Centre Vs Gujarat Pollution Control Board & Others) under the chairmanship of Justice B. C. Patel. Grievance in the application is against …
Tuticorin: A team of officials from the ministry of environment, forests and climate change regional office (South Eastern Zone), Chennai, on Wednesday inspected the site where Sterlite had started expansion work before it was stopped due to protests by the villagers and activists last February. The inspection was based on …
CHENNAI: The Madras high Court has posted for April 23 the plea filed by Vedanta Ltd challenging the Tamil Nadu Government's closure order of its four-lakh-tonne-a-year copper smelter in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, which was shuttered following violent local upheaval against the unit over environmental concerns. A senior counsellor who appeared …
The Supreme Court on Monday closed down the Vedanta-Sterlite copper smelter plant at Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi by setting aside an order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) which gave conditional nod for the plant to begin operations on December 15, 2018. A bench of Justices RF Nariman and Navin Sinha …
The sterlite plant was put under lock on May 28, 2018, when the state government had ordered the TNPCB to seal and "permanently" close the plant in the wake of violent protests over pollution concerns The Vedanta group on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Tamil Nadu …
State government had appealed against the NGT order in favour of Vedanta The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on January 8 the appeal filed by Tamil Nadu government against the decision of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to reopen the Sterlite Copper plant at Thoothukudi, which was ordered …
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Wednesday rejected Vedanta-owned Sterlite Copper plant's application seeking issuance of the renewal of consent to operate and to open the seal of the premises to carry out "urgent care and maintenance work". Pointing to various letters from Vedanta requesting renewal of consent …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vedanta Limited Vs State of Tamil Nadu & Others dated 15/12/2018 regarding Vedanta's Sterlite copper smelter plant at Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu. NGT sets aside the closure orders passed by TNPCB and directs the Pollution Control Board to pass fresh order …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vedanta Limited Vs State of Tamil Nadu & Others dated 28/11/2018 regarding closure of Sterlite Copper Plant in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu. Report of the Committee consisting of representatives of CPCB and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF …
A committee constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to carry out an “independent probe” into the closure of the Sterlite Copper plant in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday said that the closure was not sustainable and “against principles of natural justice”. “The impugned orders cannot be sustained as it is …
After the inspecting that lasted nearly two hours, the team visited places around the plant such as South Veerapandiapuram, D Kumaragiri and Kayaloorani. TIRUNELVELI: The chairman of the committee appointed by National Green Tribunal (NGT) Tarun Agarwal said that out of the 2,000 petitions he received from public, elected representatives …
The Supreme Court Monday asked the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to decide on the merits and maintainability of the issue raised by the Tamil Nadu government on Vedanta's plea challenging the closure of its Sterlite plant at Tuticorin. The top court said the NGT should consider these issues after a …
A three-man committee constituted to examine the closure of the plant The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging a National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) decision to constitute an “independent and credible” committee, led by former Punjab and Haryana Chief Justice S.J. Vazifdar, to look into the State’s …
The Tamil Nadu government today moved the Supreme Court challenging the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order allowing mining major Vedanta to enter the administrative unit inside its Sterlite copper plant in Tuticorin. On August 9, the NGT had allowed Vedanta to enter its administrative unit inside the plant, observing that …
Chennai: Sterlite Copper on Thursday received National Green Tribunal’s conditional nod for limited access to carry on administrative functions only, but not restarting the smelter or other manufacturing operations. Posting the case for August 20, the green bench allowed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board 10 days to submit data …
The Tamil Nadu government is expected to submit a reply defending its position against the action taken against Sterlite. CHENNAI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) is likely to hold the final hearing on Wednesday on a petition moved by Vedanta Ltd, challenging the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board’s (TNPCB) order …
Considering all the factors, the tribunal has posted the matter for final hearing on August 9. CHENNAI : The principal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday refused to grant interim relief to Vedanta in a plea challenging the Tamil Nadu government’s order to shut down the Sterlite …
NEW DELHI: Noting groundwater contamination in an around the Sterlite Copper plant at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, the government on Monday told the Rajya Sabha that the analysis of samples from the unit showed the presence of heavy metals in water beyond permissible limit. “The analysis of groundwater samples, from …
Thoothukudi resident Prince Cardoza has filed a writ petition in Madras High Court's Madurai bench seeking to quash the Environmental Clearance (EC) granted to Sterlite Copper in 2007 for the existing four lakh tonne per year smelter complex. The Court has admitted the petition and issued notices to all parties …
The Tamil Nadu government had on May 28 ordered the state pollution control board to seal and "permanently" close the mining group's copper plant following violent protests over pollution concerns Mining major Vedanta, which has challenged the Tamil Nadu government's order to permanently shut down its Sterlite copper plant in …