The National Green Tribunal disposed of a challenge to the Asharam Tiraha–Ratnagiri Tiraha (Ayodhya Bypass) six-laning in Bhopal, permitting felling of 7,871 trees — reduced from 9,888 after design changes — subject to compensatory afforestation at 10:1, native-species-only planting, 15-year monitoring by a technical committee, and air-quality monitoring. The order is a textbook application of the development-versus-environment balance.
Valkya Editorial··7 min
TribunalNational Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi)
On 22 April 2026, the NGT Principal Bench held that the EIA Notification 2006 does not contemplate any 'deemed approval' of an Environmental Clearance, and directed the Tree Officer, MoEF&CC and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee to act within eight weeks against a 61-acre Dwarka project that had felled approximately 2,000 trees without clearance.