MUMBAI: Hundreds of construction projects in the city and Navi Mumbai may be declared illegal, as the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has quashed two orders of the environment ministry that allowed projects initiated without the mandatory green nod to be cleared.
The tribunal, in its recent order, declared the two orders, known as office memorandum, issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in December 2012 and June 2013 “ultra vires” to its notification issued in 2006 and the Environment Protection Act of 1986.
As there was no provision earlier to regularise projects that don’t have a green nod, the Union ministry had issued an order to demolish the controversial Adarsh society. However, after coming across several such cases, the ministry issued the two orders, based on which the buildings could get a clearance.
Similar to the Adarsh case, around 350 buildings in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai have been built without a coastal nod. In the past two years, hundreds of projects, including a new fivestar hotel, mega residential projects, commercial complexes and 10 irrigation projects, have been regularised by the state expert appraisal committees on the basis of the MoEF orders.
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