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The bench, also comprising judicial members U D Salvi and Raghuvendra S Rathore and expert members Bikram Singh Sajwan and Ranjan Chaterjee, dismissed the claim of applicants challenging the environment clearance granted to the project proponent by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on April 21, 2007, saying it was time-barred.

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deficient in its operation or violates prescribed standards of emissions, it would be "liable to pay environmental compensation of Rs five lakhs per incident, in addition to such other order or directions that may be passed by the regulatory authorities and this tribunal including closure of the plant".

The bench, also comprising judicial members U D Salvi and Raghuvendra S Rathore and expert members Bikram Singh Sajwan and Ranjan Chaterjee, dismissed the claim of applicants challenging the environment clearance granted to the project proponent by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on April 21, 2007, saying it was time-barred.

It said that the plant's emissions should be strictly compliant with the prescribed standards imposed by CPCB or DPCC in the consent to operate or joint inspection reports and added that the plant will be permitted to operate subject to the stringent standards and regular inspections and monitoring by the joint inspection team constituted by it on March 13, 2013.

The bench asked the joint inspection team to conduct monthly inspection of the plant and file before it a detailed report for appropriate directions.

"The joint inspection team shall take stack as well as ambient air quality samples and analyde them in two different laboratories i.e., CPCB and DPCC laboratories. The project proponent should construct an automatic segregation plant, operative within one week from the date of pronouncement of judgement, if not, made operative by January 31," it said.

It directed the project proponent to ensure that its brick manufacturing plant, utilising fly ash is operative to its optimum capacity and to minimise transportation of fly ash generated from the waste-to-energy-plant to a landfill site.

"The transportation of fly/bottom ash shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the rules while ensuring that there is no fugitive release of ash into the air either during the loading, unloading and transportation," the bench said.

The bench also directed the Delhi government and other local authorities to make it mandatory for all construction projects, be it public or private, to use the bricks manufactured from fly ash in their construction activities.

"Every effort should be made by all government authorities including DPCC to popularise the use of ash bricks and to provide incentives, thereof. The Government of NCT Delhi, DPCC, the joint inspection team and other authorities concerned would issue clear directions with regard to utilisation of fly ash bricks in construction and allied activities, quality, quantity and percentage of such use," it said.

 

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