Supreme Court reconstitutes expert committee for Delhi-Dehradun expressway project
India Today
The Supreme Court reconstituted the oversight committee for the Delhi-Dehradun expressway that was made by the National Green Tribunal (NGT).
The Supreme Court (SC) reconstituted the oversight committee for the Delhi-Dehradun expressway project. The committee previously consisted of 12 experts appointed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT).
The Court ordered a new head of the committee and also added two new members to it.
CP Goyal, the Director-General of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, will now head the expert committee which was previously headed by Uttarakhand’s Chief Secretary, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu.
TWO NEW NAMES
Two new members who have been added to the committee are - Anil Prakash Joshi, founder of Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organisation, and Vijay Dhasmana, an environmentalist.
The order came as a response to a petition filed by an NGO, Citizens for Green Doon, against an order from the NGT.
The petitioners wanted the committee to have independent members from the fields of wildlife and the environment. Advocate Ritwik Dutt, who was representing the petitioners, had suggested some names, including Vibhash Pandav, a faculty of the Wildlife Institute of India, Retired General MK Singh, an expert in the felling of trees from Scientific Tariko, Vijay Dhasmana, an expert in flora and fauna.
