Appear before NGT, police, EDMC chiefs told

Delhi | Wednesday | 18th April, 2018

Summary:

However, the EDMC has repeatedly informed the NGT that the height of the landfill site has exceeded permissible limits. The directions came while the NGT was hearing a plea that alleged non-compliance of orders by the authorities. “The authorities concerned shall report compliance of our said directions and also explain how and why incidents of fire occurred if they had taken steps as ordered. more-inThe National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday rapped authorities for not filing reports pertaining to recurrent instances of fire at the Ghazipur landfill site and directed officers from the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) and the Delhi Police to be present before the tribunal. [The] NCT [of] Delhi is further directed to obtain the report from the police regarding the fire incidents and report in this regard shall also be filed,” it had said..