Partly allowed
Legal Aid Committee National Green Tribunal Bar Association v. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
NGTReview Application No. 2/2022
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
The NGT Bench reviewed an order directing land cover mapping for Natural Conservation Zones. The Tribunal accepted the applicant's difficulty with the 1:50,000 scale resolution and modified the order to permit the use of high-resolution satellite data (better than 0.5m) for future years, while allowing current maps for initial broad identification of violations.
What did the court decide?
Modifying the order dated 05.04.2021 to direct the use of high-resolution satellite data (better than 0.5m) for future periods while using existing maps for initial identification of broad violations.