Pune: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Secretary of the Head of State “to ask about the behavior of the person responsible for giving approval to operate” to the mining unit and rock crusher that is close to Tamhini wildlife asylum in Mulshi Taluka in Mulshi Taluka in Mulshi Taluka District Pune without environmental permission and environmental impact assessment.
The absence of an environmental permit to make the plant is truly illegal, a special bench from Green Tribunal said and added that permission to enable it to operate also violated the direction of the Supreme Court.
This is also a multi-member committee to assess the amount of compensation and oversee recovery after being considered in the district collector’s letter to the state pollution control board that the project initiator has explored more than July 5, 2019, until September 17, 2020.
“The material value mined needs to be restored Regardless of compensation for damage to the environment on the principle of ‘paruter paying’, by paying attention to environmental services forgot forever and the preventive element, related to the financial capacity of the project initiator, “Ngt said.
“Officers are responsible for allowing illegal mining and giving approval to operate without the EC needs needed to be addressed,” Tribunal said.
Supriya Dangre’s lawyer, representing the Laxman Thombare applicant, has submitted, among others, that the project is not in accordance with environmental norms because it does not have legitimate environmental permits for mining carried out on 10 hectares of land.
In addition, this factory is located within a prohibited distance from Wildlife Asylum ‘Tamhini’ in Jamgaon in Mulshi Taluka from Pune District.
The same is 60 meters from the national highway, 100 meters from completion and 400 meters from villages that violate environmental norms.
The State Pollution Control Board, Forestry Department, Pune District Collector and Project Proponent has submitted their response to this problem.
The state pollution control board has notified that the measurement of surrounding air quality exceeds the standard of approval and mining more than permission.
In addition, the agreement to operate was given on August 14, 2019, subject to environmental permits.
The court observed that the Project initiator denied that it did not have environmental permits but failed to produce one and in the absence of mining environmental permits was illegal.
“Given the undisputed facts that there is no environmental permit obtained and there is no environmental impact assessment carried out as needed, all mining carried out by PP is illegal.
As a result, improvement actions need to be taken in the light of the Supreme Court’s assessment,” Tribunal said.
“The Joint Committee of the Central Pollution Control Board, the State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority, the State Pollution Control Board and the Division Commissioner, Pune, can assess the amount of compensation and supervise recovery, in accordance with the law,” added the bench.
Probe approved the illegal mining unit in Mulshi: NGT
