National Green Tribunal

Recently, the NGT (National Green Tribunal) has imposed stay on the permissions of all new building construction which comes in the vicinity of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park and it is expected that this move can leave negative impact on the several proposed real estate projects which are in the western and eastern suburbs of Mumbai and Thane district. But still it’s not specified that exact how much area around the national park comes under this decision and due to that according to reports NGT stay on new construction which is around the Sanjay Gandhi Park.
The National Green Tribunal has directed the municipal authorities of Mumbai to not to grant any permission for further construction until National Board of Wild Life or Union Ministry of Environment and Forests  both notify a proposal of the state government to declare that all area around the national park are an eco-sensitive zone. However; there is chaos because tribunal has not specified the range of area around the national park where new construction project permissions need to be held back.

When social activist Santosh Daundkar filled petition, so while hearing the case NGT gave the order by stating that a real estate project of Omkar Realtors and Developers at Malad is located very close to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park. However; advocate Aditya Pratap, who was representing the petitioner stated that in the year 2003, the SC had given a judgement to restrict the mining activity in the rnage of 10-km radius which comes under the national parks and if anyone needs to the mining activity so they have to take the clearance from NBWL. We all know that building construction involves escalation of sand and minor minerals, so the real estate project of Omkar Realtors and Developers at Malad could not have received a green clearance from the standing committee of the NBWL”.

According to the spokesperson of Omkar Realtors and Developers¸ “The National Green Tribunal order has no impact on any ongoing real estate project within the Mumbai because all future projects within 10 km of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park will need no-objection certificate from NBWL, and it is nothing than the another permission which will delay the launch of the real estate projects, and it will also increase the cost of project, whereas; on the other side real estate industry will suffer from low supply of goo apartments in short run. The more he added that in the present project, the previous order which was dated on the February 2, 2015 to inform the prospective buyers about the pendency of the litigation in this tribunal be abide by scrupulously.

However; NGT has not issued any stay on the construction activities at Omkar Realtors’ project which is coming at Malad, it has only directed the real estate developer to inform prospective buyers about the litigation.