SC on the opposition of NGOs for development projects: ‘How will the country progress?’ , Bharat News
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked if there is resistance to every development project, how will the country move forward, and dismissed the petition of an NGO. Renewable energy project But Jaikwadi DamA nominated bird sanctuary and environment-sensitive field in Maharashtra.
According to news agency PTI, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Surya Kant and N. Kotiswar Singh also had strict words for the NGOs of the Kahr Samaj Panch Samiti.
The bench said, “You are not allowing the same project to work. How will the country progress, if every project is opposed and opposed? Even with a solar power project, you have a problem,” the bench said.
In addition, the bench said that it seems that the NGO was being funded by the company who had lost the tender for the proposed. Temporary solar power project On the dam, and now it was trying to stall it by indulging in “trivial litigation”.
The judges rejected the argument of the Kahr Samaj Panch Samiti that the area was an eco-sensitive zone and the project would affect biodiversity, and the National Green Tribunal (NGO) would upheld the September 2024 order, which rejected the NGO’s original petition.
The NGT order, he saw, was “appropriate”, saying that the Green Tribunal properly consulted the Union Ministry of Environment, which supported a center notification on July 12, 2017, supporting renewable energy activities.
The western region bench of the NGT noted that there was no legal ban against such activities in environment-sensitive areas.
The NGO floating wants to stop the solar power project, arguing that it will damage aquatic life, biodiversity and bird sanctuary, arguing that it affects drinking water and agricultural supply.
It said that the submerged area of the 36,000 hectares of reservoir was designated as a wildlife sanctuary, arguing against floating solar project based on environmental protection principles.
