Court Notice To Telangana On Appeal Against Tribunal's Order In Polavaram Project

The Odisha government argued that it was not made a party in the plea, there was no representative of the state on the committee and no notice was issued to it in the matter.

The Supreme Court Thursday sought the response of the Telangana government and others on an appeal filed against a National Green Tribunal order which had accepted the recommendations of a committee relating to the Polavaram project. A bench of Justices S A Nazeer and Krishna Murari issued notices to Telangana and Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy (original petitioner in NGT) challenging the order of the tribunal and tagged the appeal with a similar matter. The top court was hearing the appeal filed by Odisha government against the September 18, 2020 order of the National Green Tribunal contending that it has erroneously accepted the report of a committee without affording the state an opportunity to be heard. The Odisha government argued that it was not made a party in the plea, there was no representative of the state on the committee and no notice was issued to it in the matter.