Lok Sabha has passed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Bill to set up special omnibus tribunals that would become the sole adjudicators on all green laws. A key change incorporated in the bill is to create benches of the tribunal on a circuit basis, which would make them mobile and allow the green benches to hear cases at places beyond their original location but within their jurisdiction. The amendment came with many complaining that the benches would become difficult for people to approach from far-flung places.
An amendment has also been introduced to alter the criteria as to who can file a case before the tribunal. Earlier, the bill allowed any representative body or organization functioning in the field of environment to file a case. This has now been amended and any person aggrieved, including any representative body organization, would be allowed to file an application for the grant of relief or compensation and settlement of disputes.
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