
SC raps Pune civic body over road project
The Hindu
Apex court upholds NGT order, says HCMTR cannot be implemented without environmental clearance
In a setback to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), the Supreme Court on Friday said that the civic body’s ambitious High-Capacity Mass Transport Route (HCMTR) project, which has drawn flak from several environmental groups and activists, could not be implemented without prior environmental clearance (EC). The apex court upheld the judgment of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) which had directed the PMC in November 2020 to get the EC for the HCMTR, given the mammoth scale of the project and the potential environmental damage embedded in its implementation.More Related News