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PANAJI
The cases against the environmental clearances granted for the construction of Mopa airport will now be heard before the principal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) after the case was transferred with the consent of the parties after the Pune bench was transferred
to Delhi.
This in effect means that the activists who have been championing the fight against the environmental clearance granted to Mopa airport have to now travel to Delhi to argue the cases.
In an order issued on December 7, the Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal at Delhi issued an order which decreed that the judicial and expert member of the western zone bench at Pune -- Justice U D Salvi and Dr Nagin Nanda respectively -- be transferred to the principal bench in Delhi.
In the same order, the Justice Jawad Rahim the judicial member of the principal bench in New Delhi has been appointed to Pune.
In a separate order, the Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal in Delhi said that "in view of the exceptional circumstances on account of shortage of members," the zonal benches of Pune, Chennai, Bhopal and Kolkata will henceforward be single-member benches.
In the case of the Mopa matter, the petitioners had already completed arguments and it was the turn of the state and central governments to argue their case.
However, with the bench being transferred to Delhi, rather than arguing afresh, the petitioners opted to continue the hearing of the case in New Delhi.
"We were forced to come to Delhi because the bench was transferred. What's left is the governments arguments - this will now take place on January 17," activist Abhijit Prabhudesai told
The Goan.
The National Green Tribunal is hearing two challenges to the MoEF's decision to grant an environmental clearance to the Mopa Greenfield Airport -- one filed by the Federation of Rainbow Warriors and the other by one Hanuman Aroskar.
Earlier, the Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal had ordered that none of the fourteen families be displaced by the upcoming Mopa and the stay continues to this date.
"We direct the project proponent to maintain status-quo and not to shift the fourteen occupants," the tribunal said in its order passed in December last year.
Further, the National Green Tribunal passed an order seeking that no trees be cut at the site, an order which was later vacated after the government said that it would not cut any trees without following due process of seeking the permission of the tree officer.
PANAJI
The cases against the environmental clearances granted for the construction of Mopa airport will now be heard before the principal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) after the case was transferred with the consent of the parties after the Pune bench was transferred
to Delhi.
This in effect means that the activists who have been championing the fight against the environmental clearance granted to Mopa airport have to now travel to Delhi to argue the cases.
In an order issued on December 7, the Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal at Delhi issued an order which decreed that the judicial and expert member of the western zone bench at Pune -- Justice U D Salvi and Dr Nagin Nanda respectively -- be transferred to the principal bench in Delhi.
In the same order, the Justice Jawad Rahim the judicial member of the principal bench in New Delhi has been appointed to Pune.
In a separate order, the Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal in Delhi said that "in view of the exceptional circumstances on account of shortage of members," the zonal benches of Pune, Chennai, Bhopal and Kolkata will henceforward be single-member benches.
In the case of the Mopa matter, the petitioners had already completed arguments and it was the turn of the state and central governments to argue their case.
However, with the bench being transferred to Delhi, rather than arguing afresh, the petitioners opted to continue the hearing of the case in New Delhi.
"We were forced to come to Delhi because the bench was transferred. What's left is the governments arguments - this will now take place on January 17," activist Abhijit Prabhudesai told
The Goan.
The National Green Tribunal is hearing two challenges to the MoEF's decision to grant an environmental clearance to the Mopa Greenfield Airport -- one filed by the Federation of Rainbow Warriors and the other by one Hanuman Aroskar.
Earlier, the Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal had ordered that none of the fourteen families be displaced by the upcoming Mopa and the stay continues to this date.
"We direct the project proponent to maintain status-quo and not to shift the fourteen occupants," the tribunal said in its order passed in December last year.
Further, the National Green Tribunal passed an order seeking that no trees be cut at the site, an order which was later vacated after the government said that it would not cut any trees without following due process of seeking the permission of the tree officer.
