In December the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) principal bench delivered a flurry of final hearings and judgments. The chairperson, Justice Swatanter Kumar, was completing his term and there were some crucial cases that required closure.
One related to the legal question of whether building and construction projects were exempt from stated environmental approvals and if the environment ministry’s move to modify these was legally valid. In a strongly worded judgment on 8 December, the tribunal pronounced an important verdict.
Exactly a year ago, in February 2017, this column outlined how the real estate sector had. . .
