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Green Tribunal's impartiality faces litmus test in Delhi's Okhla waste incinerator case
Okhla
residents are against Jindal’s waste incinerator’s location
NGT pre-occupied with misleading claims of Jindal's
New
Delhi: So far despite 5 orders of National Green Tribunal (NGT) in the case of
mixed waste burning based power plant in Okhla, the residents of Delhi's Okhla
have got no relief. Besides these five orders, Delhi High Court heard the
matter 27 times since 2009. NGT will hear the matter
again on July 22, 2013.
ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA) demands that the transcripts of the arguments and submissions of the applicants and respondents must be uploaded on NGT's website as is done in US courts. TWA finds NGT's lenient approach towards the polluting plant of Jindal Saw Group Limited is intriguing and puzzling. Its a case of environmental lawlessness in the national capital but NGT is yet to order any stringent action against this plant set up illegitimately and illegally in a residential and ecologically fragile area.
NGT's deafening silence on the 31 page report of the Technical Experts Evaluation Committee of Central Pollution
Control Board (CPCB) on the Timarpur-Okhla Waste to Energy Incinerator
Plant constituted by Union Environment & Forests Minister condemned the Timarpur-Okhla Waste to Energy Incinerator Plant
by JITF Urban Infrastructure Limited (Jindal Ecopolis) has violated
every rule in the rule book including environmental clearance
conditions. It revealed to the Experts Committee in September 2011 that
it is using untested and unapproved Chinese incinerator technology in
complete violation all laws and environmental clearance of 2007
including its own project design document and environment impact
assessment report. Chinese technology provider is from Hangzhou New
Century Company Ltd of Hangzhou Boiler Group.The municipal corporation and the State Government is complicit in allowing such a plant.
Earlier
the same was heard as Writ Petition (Civil) NO. 9901/2009 in the Delhi
High Court against the power plant by Delhi’s Timarpur-Okhla Waste
Management Co Pvt Ltd (TOWMCL) of M/s Jindal Urban Infrastructure
Limited (JUIL), a company of M/s Jindal Saw Group Limited.
The details of the case and the text of the orders are given below: Original Application No.: 22/2013(THC) |
(Sukhdev Vihar Residents Welfare Association & Ors. Vs
State of NCT of Delhi & Ors
28-05-2013 http://www.greentribunal.in/ 30-04-2013 http://www.greentribunal.in/ 04-04-2013 http://www.greentribunal.in/ 11-03-2013 http://www.greentribunal.in/ 22-02-2013 http://www.greentribunal.in/ |
In the report, Dr A B Akolkar, Director, CPCB emphasized that as
per Municipal Solid Waste (Management & Handling) Rules
‘biodegrdable waste’ is to be treated using biological method rather
than deriving RDF or by incineration as is being done by Jindal
Ecopolis. This clearly demonstrates that the Timarpur-Okhla Waste to
Energy Incinerator Plant violates the Municipal Solid Waste (Management
& Handling) Rules framed under Environment Protection Act, 1986.
For Details: Gopal Krishna, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA), Mb: 9818089660, E-mail:gopalkrishna1715@gmail.com, Web: www.toxicswatch.org
For Details: Gopal Krishna, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA), Mb: 9818089660, E-mail:gopalkrishna1715@gmail.com, Web: www.toxicswatch.org
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