Delhi High Court Stays Rule Permitting Pruning Of Tree Branches Of Girth Size Upto 15.7cms Without Reference To Tree Officer
1 year, 10 months ago

Delhi High Court Stays Rule Permitting Pruning Of Tree Branches Of Girth Size Upto 15.7cms Without Reference To Tree Officer

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Observing that it would be “creeping legalised genocide of trees”, the Delhi High Court recently stayed a clause which permits regular pruning of tree branches of girth size upto 15.7cms without reference to the Tree Officer. “Therefore, to ensure that there is no felling of trees for the asking or of chopping of large branches of trees at will to reduce them to a mere pole-like entity, clause 5 of the Guidelines shall not be given effect to till the next date,” Justice Najmi Waziri said in an order passed on May 10, a copy of which was made available only yesterday. “In view of the preceding discussion, Clause 5 which permits the regular pruning tending of branches of girth size upto 15.7cms without reference to the Tree Officer, does not find any approval in the Act. Prima facie this part of the Guidelines is incongruous with the statutory requirements, as mandated in sections 8 and 9 of the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994,” the court said.

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Forest dept, MCD bicker in NGT over tree pruning in Paschim Vihar
2 months, 1 week ago

Forest dept, MCD bicker in NGT over tree pruning in Paschim Vihar

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi NGT is hearing a plea in which Paschim Vihar resident Khyati Anand alleged illegal lopping and pruning of more than 250 trees in various blocks in February and March 2024. Delhi’s forest and wildlife department has informed the National Green Tribunal that the Municipal Corporation of Delhi carried out “excessive” pruning of trees in parts of Paschim Vihar. …

Review all pleas for chopping 50+ trees in Delhi: Top court to CEC
3 months, 1 week ago

Review all pleas for chopping 50+ trees in Delhi: Top court to CEC

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Thursday appointed the Central Empowered Committee as the supervisory authority to review all applications for felling 50 or more trees in Delhi, recognising the critical need to preserve the city’s dwindling green cover and lamenting the failure of tree authorities to implement the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994 effectively. The top court also ordered a …

Delhi Preservation Of Trees Act | Supreme Court Stops Felling Of More Than 50 Trees Without CEC Approval, Orders Tree Census In Delhi
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3 months, 1 week ago

Delhi Preservation Of Trees Act | Supreme Court Stops Felling Of More Than 50 Trees Without CEC Approval, Orders Tree Census In Delhi

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The Supreme Court on Thursday directed that whenever Tree Officers grant permission to fell 50 or more trees under the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994 the permission must be approved by the CEC before it is acted upon. “We therefore direct that whenever permission is granted by the tree officer for felling of 50 or more trees in accordance …

No Pruning Of Trees Till Forest Department Has SOP On Compliance Under DPTA: Delhi High Court
3 months, 2 weeks ago

No Pruning Of Trees Till Forest Department Has SOP On Compliance Under DPTA: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has directed all the Deputy Conservator of Forests to ensure that no pruning of trees is undertaken till the Department of Forest and Wildlife has guidelines or SOP to ensure that the exercise is done and monitored in accordance with the provisions of Delhi Preservation of Trees Act.Justice Jasmeet Singh said that in case pruning is …

'What Procedure Followed In Tree Felling?' : Supreme Court Issues Notice To Delhi Tree Authority & Officers
4 months, 3 weeks ago

'What Procedure Followed In Tree Felling?' : Supreme Court Issues Notice To Delhi Tree Authority & Officers

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Tree Authority and the Tree Officers appointed under the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994, in a plea seeking to prevent the Delhi government from permitting tree felling under the Act without prior permission from the court. And then we propose to pass some order.” He added, “Some mechanism will have …

SC agrees to hear plea seeking to restrain felling of trees in Delhi without its nod
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4 months, 3 weeks ago

SC agrees to hear plea seeking to restrain felling of trees in Delhi without its nod

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea seeking to restrain the Delhi government from allowing felling of trees in the national capital without the apex court's permission. SC agrees to hear plea seeking to restrain felling of trees in Delhi without its nod The application, which stated that five trees are felled in Delhi every hour, …

Supreme Court questions process to allow tree felling in Delhi
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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court questions process to allow tree felling in Delhi

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Friday asked what checks and balances are in place before permission is given to chop trees in the Capital, as it set out to examine the functioning of the Delhi Tree Authority and tree officers. The court was considering an application filed by Delhi resident Bhavreen Kandhari, who stated that DTA — a statutory body created …

Avoid repeat of Delhi Ridge tree felling: Supreme Court
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Avoid repeat of Delhi Ridge tree felling: Supreme Court

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that the “breach” committed by the Delhi Development of Authority in chopping down 1,670 trees in the Ridge area in Delhi should not be allowed to happen again, and proposed to put in place a mechanism to achieve this. More importantly, we need to see what safeguards we should put in place to obviate …

Supreme Court Directs Project Proponents Who Obtained Tree Felling Permissions To Submit Data On Compensatory Afforestation
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court Directs Project Proponents Who Obtained Tree Felling Permissions To Submit Data On Compensatory Afforestation

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The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centrally Empowered Committee to call upon various project proponents that have received tree felling permissions from the Court to upload data on compliance with Court conditions regarding compensatory efforts. A bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih was considering the issue of enhancing the green cover in Delhi and setting …

Residents grapple with tough rules on tree pruning
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Residents grapple with tough rules on tree pruning

Hindustan Times  

As the first monsoon rain hit the Capital, residents of S block in GK-1 were concerned about overgrown trees, including a large Gulmohar tree, and were apprehensive of the possibility that its branches may fall, injuring people. RWAs across the city said that over a year after the Delhi high court mandated that only tree officers from the forest and …

SC raps Delhi government for giving permission to DDA to chop 422 trees in reserve forest area
8 months, 2 weeks ago

SC raps Delhi government for giving permission to DDA to chop 422 trees in reserve forest area

New Indian Express  

The Supreme Court has slammed the Delhi government for granting permission to the Delhi Development Authority to chop 422 trees in the Southern Ridge's reserve forest area for the construction of a road, noting that it has shown lack of sensitivity over protecting the environment. "The Delhi government must take the blame for granting permission to fell 422 trees, though …

‘L-G thinks he is a court’: SC slams Saxena, Delhi govt. on tree-felling in protected area
8 months, 2 weeks ago

‘L-G thinks he is a court’: SC slams Saxena, Delhi govt. on tree-felling in protected area

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on July 12 found that more than 420 trees were felled in the protected Delhi ridge area after Lieutenant Governor of Delhi V.K. A Special Bench headed by Justice A.S. Oka said not one among the senior officers from the Delhi Development Authority, or the Delhi Chief Secretary, had deemed it necessary to inform the L-G that …

South Delhi eco zone now a shrine to 1,100 felled trees
8 months, 4 weeks ago

South Delhi eco zone now a shrine to 1,100 felled trees

Hindustan Times  

A 2.3km stretch of the Chhattarpur Satbari-Gaushala road, which is in the process of being widened into a six-lane road to extend up to the AIIMS-CAPFMIS campus at Maidan Garhi, is lined with chopped stumps, strewn bark and dead branches as haunting evidence of illegal tree-felling in the eco-sensitive zone around Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary. The court observed that on …

Court pulls up Delhi forest dept for destroying trees citing infra projects
1 year, 1 month ago

Court pulls up Delhi forest dept for destroying trees citing infra projects

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi high court on Wednesday reprimanded the AAP government’s forest department for destroying trees under the pretext of pruning and granting permission to fell trees without passing a non-speaking order saying that the department did not care about the environment. In that order, the high court had directed the government to not grant permission for cutting trees to individuals …

Delhi HC Closes PIL Against Delhi Tree Authority's Functioning, Says It's For The Authority To Decide If Saplings Should Be Provided To All
1 year, 4 months ago

Delhi HC Closes PIL Against Delhi Tree Authority's Functioning, Says It's For The Authority To Decide If Saplings Should Be Provided To All

Live Law  

A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court recently closed a Public Interest Litigation relating to functioning of the Delhi Tree Authority, noting that a Single Judge Bench of the court was already in seisin of the matter. The respondents' counsel informed the court that the Delhi Tree Authority was functional and its functionality was being duly monitored by the …

No Permission To Be Granted For Felling Of Trees To Construct Houses In Delhi: High Court
1 year, 6 months ago

No Permission To Be Granted For Felling Of Trees To Construct Houses In Delhi: High Court

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The Delhi High Court on Thursday said that no permission shall be granted to anyone by the city authorities for felling of trees for construction of houses in the national capital.Justice Jasmeet Singh said that its earlier interim order, recording the Delhi Government’s stand that no permission will be granted to any individual for felling of trees and that any …

Environmental Law Weekly Round-Up [12 June-19 June,2023]
1 year, 9 months ago

Environmental Law Weekly Round-Up [12 June-19 June,2023]

Live Law  

A weekly round-up of development in environmental law jurisprudence. “After going through the said report, we find that comments of MoEF&CC as well as Government of HP through Additional Chief Secretaries/ Principal Secretaries, Tourism as also Environment, need be obtained for the purpose of implementation of the report, if in principle they agree with the recommendation in the report, and/or, …

High court sets aside tree pruning guidelines issued by Delhi govt
1 year, 9 months ago

High court sets aside tree pruning guidelines issued by Delhi govt

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi high court has set aside guidelines passed by the state government for the pruning of trees in the Capital, that permitted the clipping of tree branches with a girth of 15.7cm without the permission of a tree officer, while observing that “a tree is a living being”, and a “last look” or final inspection should be accorded before …

No Pruning Of Trees Will Be Permitted In Delhi Except In Accordance With Delhi Preservation of Trees Act: Delhi High Court
1 year, 9 months ago

No Pruning Of Trees Will Be Permitted In Delhi Except In Accordance With Delhi Preservation of Trees Act: Delhi High Court

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The Delhi High Court has set aside the Delhi Government’s Guidelines permitting regular pruning of branches of trees with girth upto 15.7 cm without prior permission of the Tree Officer. Yet the Guidelines permit cutting/pruning of branches of trees having a girth/circumference upto 15.7 cms,” the court said. These are glaring examples of misuse of the generous permission granted under …

Expert panel to assess request to cut more trees for 7 govt colonies in Delhi
1 year, 10 months ago

Expert panel to assess request to cut more trees for 7 govt colonies in Delhi

Hindustan Times  

A six-member expert committee has been formed to decide whether the National Buildings Construction Corporation should be allowed to cut an additional over 8,000 trees for building the seven General Pool Residential Accommodation colonies, according to documents seen by HT. The panel was constituted by Delhi’s State Environment Impact Assessment Authority and the State Expert Appraisal Committee, after an environmental …

What is a tree? CPWD asks Delhi forest department to clarify
1 year, 11 months ago

What is a tree? CPWD asks Delhi forest department to clarify

Hindustan Times  

The Central Public Works Department has written to Delhi’s forest and wildlife department, seeking clarity on what constitutes a tree based on the definition provided in the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994. CPWD said that going by the definition of the DPTA, herbaceous “trees” like plantain would not be considered trees given that their main trunk or branches are …

High Court Seeks Delhi Govt’s Status Report On Formulating SOP For Proceedings Relating To Tree Offences
1 year, 11 months ago

High Court Seeks Delhi Govt’s Status Report On Formulating SOP For Proceedings Relating To Tree Offences

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi government to file an affidavit detailing the progress made in formulating the Standard Operating Procedure in respect of proceedings related to offences of damage of trees or violation of any other provision of Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994 The court was hearing a writ petition filed by senior lawyer Rajiv Dutta …

Every Hour Five Trees Are Cut Down in Delhi: High Court Seeks Action Plan From Forest Department
2 years ago

Every Hour Five Trees Are Cut Down in Delhi: High Court Seeks Action Plan From Forest Department

Live Law  

Recently, the Delhi High Court sought an expedited action plan from the Forest Department after it was brought to the court's attention that, for the years 2019, 2020, and 2021, five trees are being cut down every hour in Delhi with prior permission from the Tree Officer. The bench of Justice Najmi Waziri said, “Remedying the harm and loss of …

Ensure Tree Felling Orders Are Uploaded Within 48 Hours: Delhi High Court To Principal Chief Conservator of Forests
2 years, 4 months ago

Ensure Tree Felling Orders Are Uploaded Within 48 Hours: Delhi High Court To Principal Chief Conservator of Forests

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The Delhi High Court has directed the national capital's Principal Chief Conservator of Forests to ensure that the orders permitting the tree felling, under Delhi Preservation Of Trees Act, 1994, are uploaded within a period of 48 hours on the official website.Justice Najmi Waziri was dealing with a contempt plea arguing that the officials have not been following the directions …

Three Trees Cut Every Hour In Last 3 Yrs In Delhi: High Court Seeks Response From Forest Dept
2 years, 8 months ago

Three Trees Cut Every Hour In Last 3 Yrs In Delhi: High Court Seeks Response From Forest Dept

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Monday sought response from the forest department after it was informed that three trees were cut every hour in the city, in the last three years; the figure excluding illegally felled trees.Justice Najmi Waziri, while hearing a contempt case concerning the preservation of trees in the national capital, came down heavily upon the authorities for …

Delhi losing its trees due to lack of census, violation of rules
3 years, 3 months ago

Delhi losing its trees due to lack of census, violation of rules

Hindustan Times  

Delhi could be losing thousands of trees every year -- thanks to the absence of a tree census and faulty implementation of existing laws. Yet, few mark trees, both within the boundary walls or just outside, and as a result, the forest department claimed, many trees are going missing -- being cut down without any permission being sought. Sarvodaya Enclave, …

'Unworkable': SC Sets Aside Delhi HC's Direction To Insurance Company To Plant 100 Trees [Read Order]
4 years, 7 months ago

'Unworkable': SC Sets Aside Delhi HC's Direction To Insurance Company To Plant 100 Trees [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has set aside the direction issued by the Delhi High Court to an Insurance Company to plant hundred treesThe Delhi High Court had passed this direction as an interim order after it noticed that the Oriental Insurance Company Ltd., which was the appellant in an MACA before it, failed to take steps to bring on record the …

Delhi govt assures to plant 1.4 lakh saplings after High Court warns of contempt action
5 years, 9 months ago

Delhi govt assures to plant 1.4 lakh saplings after High Court warns of contempt action

The Hindu  

The AAP government has assured the Delhi High Court that the latter’s direction of planting 1.4 lakh saplings in the central ridge area in New Delhi will be implemented without further delay. The submissions were made by the government before Justice Najmi Waziri after the Court said planting only 1,500 trees in 15 weeks after its March 11 order to …

Delhi's tree cover losing battle to shoddy reports on environment, poor compliance of afforestation norms
6 years, 9 months ago

Delhi's tree cover losing battle to shoddy reports on environment, poor compliance of afforestation norms

Firstpost  

Throughout the summer of 2018, Delhi’s air has been dust: grainy and brown. “While the colonies near South Delhi require a facelift, the clause of ‘compensatory afforestation’ must be analysed in the context of urban redevelopment projects,” said Vimlendu Jha, a Delhi-based environmentalist and social entrepreneur who participated in the citizen-led campaign Save Delhi SOS. Juhi Saklani, who was part …

NBCC agrees not to cut trees in south Delhi till July 4
6 years, 9 months ago

NBCC agrees not to cut trees in south Delhi till July 4

India TV News  

The National Buildings Construction Corporation has today agreed in the Delhi High Court that trees should not be cut till July 4, to re-develop six south Delhi colonies. The High Court on June 22 had declined to put on hold, the felling of trees sanctioned by the Central government, in connection with re-development of the south Delhi colonies by the …

NGT asks Delhi govt to plant 2K saplings in lieu of 216 trees
8 years, 10 months ago

NGT asks Delhi govt to plant 2K saplings in lieu of 216 trees

India TV News  

New Delhi: Expressing concern over reckless felling of trees in large numbers, the National Green Tribunal today directed Delhi government to plant 2,000 trees for chopping 216 trees in a residential colony in north east Delhi. "Respondents shall do afforestation of 2,000 trees in lieu of 216 trees felled in Yamuna Vihar," the bench said. The direction came while hearing …

Plant 2000 trees in lieu of 216 chopped at Yamuna Vihar, NGT tells Delhi govt
8 years, 10 months ago

Plant 2000 trees in lieu of 216 chopped at Yamuna Vihar, NGT tells Delhi govt

Firstpost  

The National Green Tribunal directed the Delhi government to plant 2,000 trees for chopping 216, in a residential colony in north east Delhi New Delhi: Expressing concern over reckless felling of trees in large numbers, the National Green Tribunal on Thursday directed the Delhi government to plant 2,000 trees for chopping 216, in a residential colony in north east Delhi. …

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