GUWAHATI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the state govt to constitute a committee to identify motion of elephants in and around Deepor Beel, a wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of town, and to determine the level to which railway tracks have "encroached" into elephant corridors in and across the house.
The jap zone bench of NGT, Kolkata, in an order issued on Thursday, has requested the federal government to constitute the committee with the state govt's chief secretary as the chairman and the most important secretary of Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority as the convener. Other participants of the committee would be the common manager of NF Railway, the most important chief conservator of woodland director of Wildlife Institute of India and the most important secretary of revenue department.
The resolution was taken following a proposal from the applicant's recommend Ritwick Dutta on the wish to establish elephant corridors and to adopt long-term measures to stop encroachment.
NGT handed the order while hearing a petition which was filed by means of environmental activist Rohit Choudhury in 2014 in opposition to damages being executed to Deepor Beel, a Ramsar web page, because of air pollution and encroachment. The tribunal has also entrusted the committee to make proposals for everlasting measures that can be adopted by means of the railways to stop encroachment.
"The mitigation measures shall include construction of underpass or over-bridges to make the corridors free for the unhindered movement of elephants and other animals in the forest area and in Deepor Beel," the tribunal said. The committee will cling an "adequate number" of meetings within 30 days from now, it added.
During the hearing on Thursday, the state govt submitted an affidavit to NGT wherein it was mentioned that NF Railway, some of the respondents, has carried out the survey of a space for a second railway observe that may pass through a part of the sanctuary which is used by elephants.
These new tracks would had been an addition to the already current one that passes throughout the edge of the wetland. NGT has directed that the work in this second observe must now not continue additional. The tribunal has also requested the railway to post a compliance document on March 14.
The jap zone bench of NGT, Kolkata, in an order issued on Thursday, has requested the federal government to constitute the committee with the state govt's chief secretary as the chairman and the most important secretary of Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority as the convener. Other participants of the committee would be the common manager of NF Railway, the most important chief conservator of woodland director of Wildlife Institute of India and the most important secretary of revenue department.
The resolution was taken following a proposal from the applicant's recommend Ritwick Dutta on the wish to establish elephant corridors and to adopt long-term measures to stop encroachment.
NGT handed the order while hearing a petition which was filed by means of environmental activist Rohit Choudhury in 2014 in opposition to damages being executed to Deepor Beel, a Ramsar web page, because of air pollution and encroachment. The tribunal has also entrusted the committee to make proposals for everlasting measures that can be adopted by means of the railways to stop encroachment.
"The mitigation measures shall include construction of underpass or over-bridges to make the corridors free for the unhindered movement of elephants and other animals in the forest area and in Deepor Beel," the tribunal said. The committee will cling an "adequate number" of meetings within 30 days from now, it added.
During the hearing on Thursday, the state govt submitted an affidavit to NGT wherein it was mentioned that NF Railway, some of the respondents, has carried out the survey of a space for a second railway observe that may pass through a part of the sanctuary which is used by elephants.
These new tracks would had been an addition to the already current one that passes throughout the edge of the wetland. NGT has directed that the work in this second observe must now not continue additional. The tribunal has also requested the railway to post a compliance document on March 14.
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