Lack of protection works in Gangotri NH: NGT issues notices to authorities

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the authorities concerned, including the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL), on a petition claiming lack of some protection works on the Gangotri National Highway in Uttarkashi district of Uttrakhand.

According to the petition, NHIDCL failed to take action for the construction of a landslide protection gallery, slope protection work and river protection work.

A bench of NGT Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava and expert member A Senthil Vel noted that the petitioner’s counsel had referred to a communication from an official of NHIDCL