NGT slaps ₹2 crore fine on company for changing course of a natural water channel in Odisha
The Hindu
The complaint said that the JSPL had unauthorisedly usurped the Nandira River in Angul in connivance with the State authorities and filled it up with earth, thereby completely obliterating the river.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Eastern Zone, has slapped a fine of ₹2 crore on the Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) for changing the natural course of Kurbadahali Nalla (water channel) in Odisha’s Angul district.
The JSPL, which has a steel project in Angul district, is accused of filling up the original Kurdabahali Nalla with earth and constructing its industrial complex thereon at a time when it had not received sanction from the Odisha Government for diversion of the Kurdabahali Nalla through an alternative diversion into the Parang Minor Irrigation Project.
Alekha Chandra Tripathy, a resident of Cuttack, had filed a complaint that the JSPL had unauthorisedly usurped the Nandira River in Angul in connivance with the State authorities and filled it up with earth thereby completely obliterating the river.
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