'MPCB must submit proposal for using fly ash in 2 weeks'
Source: The Times of India, Date: , 2015
The
National Green Tribunal, Western Zone, has asked the state pollution control
board to send a copy of the proposal sent to the government offices on using
fly ash in two weeks during the hearing of an application by Nashik Fly Bricks
Association against the ministry of environment and forests. Justice V R
Kingaonkar and expert member Ajay Deshpande gave the direction while hearing
the application on January 6. The NGT had onDecember 1questioned
why the district collector should not be prosecuted for non-compliance of the
court's orders with respect to fly ash. The application was filed by the Nashik
association president Sunil Mendhekar on October 30, 2013 against the
government officials concerned for flouting the MoEF directions on fly ash. The
NGT had instructed every government department to use fly ash bricks for
construction purposes.