The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to make calculations of compensation amount in accordance with rules and proceed to realise the same within a period of two months, after giving opportunity to Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board (MBDB) and ensuring that the place of chemical treatment plant at Gorewada is restored to its original condition.
NGT has given the order after hearing the matter of Manoj Markendeyrao Wahane vs MBDB and others recently.
It may be mentioned here that the bamboo board had set up a chemical treatment plant for bamboo processing within Gorewada Reserve Forest in Nagpur without getting forest clearance. Thus, the board had violated Section 2 of Forest Conservation Act, 1980, by not taking permission from the Central Government for use of any part of the land that was given to the board for the purpose of plantation for research, said NGT.
