The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a compensation amount of Rs. 2 crore on the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for failing to comply with dust control measures and take up plantation while working on a stretch of the highway from Mukarba Chowk to the Singhu border.
The applicant had said NHAI had failed to comply with its environmental obligations and that construction work on the highway had resulted in dust generation at Khampur village in Delhi, Palla Mod, and Singhola Mod. The application also said that for trees cut for the highway, the plantation was claimed to have been done at Garhi Mandu around 26 km away from Khampur, which does not help mitigate the dust generated in places where trees have been cut.
