{"id":229108,"date":"2023-11-24T00:09:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T18:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=229108"},"modified":"2023-11-24T00:09:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T18:39:06","slug":"illegal-sand-mining-in-ups-balia-ngt-issues-notice-to-central-state-pollution-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/11\/24\/illegal-sand-mining-in-ups-balia-ngt-issues-notice-to-central-state-pollution-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal sand mining in UP&#8217;s Balia: NGT issues notice to central, state pollution boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, Nov 23 (PTI) The National Green Tribunal has issued a notice to the central and state pollution control boards in a case regarding the alleged illegal sand mining on the riverbeds of Saryu and Ghaghra in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Balia district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The green tribunal also directed the Balia district magistrate to file the action taken report on or before the next date of hearing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NGT was hearing the matter where it had taken suo motu cognisance of a media report which claimed there was &#8220;large scale&#8221; illegal sand mining on the riverbeds in Sikandarpur town of the district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A bench of NGT Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava and expert member A Senthil Vel said, &#8220;A substantial issue relating to compliance of environmental norms is involved in the matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It then impleaded as parties in the matter the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) and the district magistrate of Balia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Let notice be issued to the above respondents. The DM, Balia is directed to file the status and action taken report on or before the next date of hearing,&#8221; the tribunal said in an order passed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The matter has been posted on November 24 for further proceedings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Nov 23 (PTI) The National Green Tribunal has issued a notice to the central and state pollution control boards in a case regarding the alleged illegal sand mining on the riverbeds of Saryu and Ghaghra in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Balia district. The green tribunal also directed the Balia district magistrate to file the action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}