The Supreme Court on Monday directed the National Green Tribunal to decide on environment restoration and compensation to people displaced due to the massive blowout at Oil India Limited’s Baghjan oil well in Assam in May 2020.
Fixing interim compensation to be paid preferably within two months to nearly 9000 displaced people, the Court directed the green tribunal to adjudicate on the final compensation to be paid to the affected people and work out modalities for its disbursal.
With an expert committee constituted by the top court having submitted its final report in December 2021, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud said, “It will be appropriate to remit the matter back to NGT that shall now take up the proceedings in the light of the report of the expert committee constituted by this Court.”
