New Delhi: acting on the commands of the National Green Court and several observations carried out by courts that are different from time to time, the Ministry of Environment has come out with standard operating procedures to handle cases of green violations.
The steps that must be taken against mistaken projects include the demolition or closure of unatred units and rigid punishment under the principle of ‘pouter trips’.
SOP Five points, issued for various institutions including the Country Central Polution and PCB Country Agency, also include procedural details for identifying violations and non-compliance, and formulas to impose punishment.
Under the provisions of the penalty, every new project that has not started its operation must pay 1% of the total project costs as a penalty for interim violations of projects that are wrong where the operation has begun will also pay 0.25% of the total turnover during the violation period.
Provisions, issued by the ministry as’ office notes’, taking into account the principles of proportionality ‘and money, collected as punishment, will be used as’ costs for improvement measures’ in areas that have damaged the environment.
However, environmental lovers say that this regulation must go through the right notification, issued under the 1986 environmental law (protection), and this should not come through mode OM.
CPCB and PCB countries have been empowered to take action against violators according to SOP.
SOP said that projects that are not “allowed” for the provision of environmental licenses will be destroyed.