LexM/S ARAVALI POWER CO PVT LTD versus VEDPRAKASH AND ANOTHER
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A B C D E F G H 753 M/S ARAVALI POWER CO PVT LTD v. VEDPRAKASH AND ANOTHER (Civil Appeal Nos. 1692-1693 of 2020) MAY 10, 2022 [DR. DHANANJAYA Y CHANDRACHUD AND PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, JJ.] Environment (Protection) Act 1986: s. 3 – Environmental Compensation – Utilization and disposal of accumulated fly ash at the units of thermal power producers – Statutory notification by the Ministry of Environment and Forest and Climate Change-MoEF&CC requiring manufacturers of clay to mix 25% of Ash which was amended by notification requiring construction agencies to use 100% of the fly ash in a phased manner up to 03.08.2007; and by further notification time period extended until 31.12.2017 – National Green Tribunal held that the Thermal Power Plants-TPPs failed to take adequate steps for the scientific disposal of fly ash in accordance with the statutory notifications issued by the Ministry – Direction by NGT that for non-compliant TPPs’, the environmental compensation to be determined with effect from 31.12.2017 – During pendency, the Ministry by Notification dated 31.12.2021 granted extension of ten years to TPPs to comply with the requirement of 100% utilization of accumulated legacy fly ash, subsuming the earlier notifications – Sustainability of the order passed by the NGT – Held: NGT found fault with the TPPs due to their failure to comply with the notification dated 25.01.2016 and the extended deadline which was fixed for the utilization of fly ash – In view of the subsequent development, the basis of the order of the NGT altered – Thus, in view of the notification dated 31.12.2021, the orders of the NGT set aside – Furthermore, having noticed certain deficiencies in the notification dated 31.12.2021, as regards the loading, unloading, transport, storage and disposal of fly ash in an environmentally sound manner, MoEF&CC to revisit whether the parameters prescribed by the notification dated 31.12.2021 – Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules 2016 – rr. 3(17), 3(23), 3(33), 3(34). [2022] 4 S.C.R. 753 753 A B C D E F G H 754 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [2022] 4 S.C.R. CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Civil Appeal Nos. 1692- 1693 of 2020. From the Judgment and Order dated 24.10.2019 of the National Green Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi in Original Application No.834 of 2018 and Order dated 22.11.2019 in M.A. No.231 of 2019 in Original Application No. 834 of 2018. With Civil Appeal Nos. 3236, 3171-3172, 3231, 3229-3230, 2947, 3235, 3237, 3398, 2838, 3040, 2713, 2760, 2803, 3232-3233, 2946, 3038-3039, 3234 of 2020, 4489 of 2022, 3173, 3575 of 2020, 4487-4488 of 2022, 3971-3972 of 2020, 225 of 2021 and 4265 of 2022. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, ASG, Anil Grover, Sr. AAG, Tapesh Kumar Singh, Saurabh Mishra, AAGs, Ashok K. Gupta, Sajan Poovayya, Bharat Sangal, Manish Singhvi, Dr. Manish Singhvi, S.C. Verma, Sr. Advs., Ms. Noopur Singhal, Rahul Khurana, Satish Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Visen, Ms. Ritu Rastogi, Suresh Kumar Bhan, Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, Deep Rao Palepu, Ms. Prerna Priyadarshini, Ms. Priyashree Sharma PH, Arjun Agarwal, Ms. Syed F. Alam, Abhishek Gupta, Ms. Ikshita Singh, Kapil Raghav, Ms. Sunita Sharma, Dishant Bhati, Shri Venkatesh, Ms. Nishtha Kumar, Suhael Buttan, V. N. Kannan, Ms. Raksha Agrawal, Shailesh Madiyal, Sudhanshu Prakash, Ms. Babita Kushwaha, Nagarkatti Kartik Uday, Kaustubh Shukla, Ms. Ranjana Roy Gawai, Ms. Vasudha Sen, Vineet Wadhwa, Ms. Divya Roy, Sanjay Ghalawat, Kedar Nath Tripathy, Kartik Seth, Ms. Shriya Gilhotra, Ms. Garima Saxena, Sahil Nagpal, M/s. Chambers of Kartik Seth, Mahesh Agarwal, Rishi Agrawala, Aniket Prasoon, Ms. Parul Shukla, Nishant Rao, Ms. Shweta Vashisth, E. C. Agrawala, Adarsh Tripathi, Vikaran Singh Baid, Saurabh Yadav, Gaurav, Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, Polanki Gowtham, Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Mukesh Kumar Maroria, Rajat Nair, Udai Khanna, Sughosh Subramaniyam, Udit Khanna, Ms. Deepabali Dutta, Amrish Kumar, Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Siddhant Kohli, Ms. Suhasini Sen, Shantanu Sharma, Athulesh Kumar, Harish Pandey, Ajay Kumar Singh, Rahul G. Tanwani, Rustam Singh Chauhan, Manvendra Singh, Sarad Kumar Singhania, Gurmeet Singh Makker, Vardhman Kaushik, Ms. Manika Tripathy Pandey, Ashutosh Kaushik, Shubham Hasija, Manish Vashist, Neeraj A B C D E F G H 755 Kumar Gupta, Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Ms. Anjali Mishra, Ms. Pallavi Kumari, Ms. Arti Prasad, Abhishek Kumar, Nikilesh Ramachandran, Shubham Seth, Ms. Mrinal Chaudhry, Ms. Neha Jain, Prateek Samjpati, Rajan Parm
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