Key Highlights
- The notices were issued on February 26 by the Principal Bench of the NGT Chairperson Prakash Shrivastava and expert member Afroz Ahmad based on two petitions filed by environmental activist Ajay Dubey.
- While one of the pleas challenges the approval given by the Centre and the State for the felling of trees for the project, the other claims that a proposed elephant corridor passes through the the Dhirauli coal block area, which has been allocated to the Mahan Energen Ltd., a subsidiary of Adani Power.
- The NGT issued notices to the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, the National Board for Wildlife, and the Forest Department of Madhya Pradesh without making any comments on the contents of the petitions, and sought their responses at least one week before the next respective hearings of the two petitions.
- While the petition regarding tree felling clearances has been listed on April 22, the one concerning proposed elephant corridor will be heard on May 26.
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