{"id":428968,"date":"2021-08-04T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T04:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428968"},"modified":"2021-08-04T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T05:38:37","slug":"violating-height-norms-hc-pulls-up-dgca-smc-over-structures-near-surat-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/violating-height-norms-hc-pulls-up-dgca-smc-over-structures-near-surat-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018violating height norms\u2019: HC pulls up DGCA, SMC over structures near Surat airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A division bench of the Gujarat High Court came down heavily on the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) for not taking action against structures near the Surat airport in violation of law, posing serious safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Directing the authorities to file action taken reports and latest status reports by the next date of hearing, the court said on August 2, \u201celse personal responsibility will be fixed\u201d on the officials concerned and they will be asked to make cash security deposits from their personal funds.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2019 public interest litigation, party-in-person citizen Vishwas Bhambhurkar had highlighted that illegal constructions were permitted around the Surat airport, violating norms and requested such structures be evacuated and demolished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A division bench of the Gujarat High Court came down heavily on the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) for not taking action against structures near the Surat airport in violation of law, posing serious safety concerns. Directing the authorities to file action taken reports and latest status reports by the next date of hearing, the court said on August 2, \u201celse personal responsibility will be fixed\u201d on the officials concerned and they will be asked to make cash security deposits from their personal funds. In a 2019 public interest litigation, party-in-person citizen Vishwas Bhambhurkar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}