PANAJI: Lower than two months in the past, the Goa Coastal Zone Administration Authority, chaired by IAS officer Arun Kumar Mishra, brushed apart a report by its three-member committee on “gross violations” in opposition to the proprietor of the property on which the nightclub Birch by Romeo Lane stood, a British citizen named Surinder Kumar Khosla, and dropped proceedings in opposition to him. Khosla had leased the land to Birch by Romeo Lane.The committee, which included an skilled and two members of the coastal authority, mentioned there have been “alleged gross unlawful constructions leading to violations of CRZ notification 2011” and really helpful that it must be deliberated by the Goa Coastal Zone Administration Authority (GCZMA) at its assembly and brought up for “additional dialogue”.However with out discussing or deliberating, the coastal authority turned a blind eye to “gross violations” report and dropped proceedings on Oct 9 “There isn’t any violation of CRZ notification in as a lot because the constructions in query fall past CRZ space of the creek/ river,” the coastal authority mentioned, including it doesn’t have jurisdiction in areas not declared or notified as CRZ (Coastal Regulatory Zone).After the inspection, the committee had reported that the “RCC everlasting construction is constructed absolutely into the water physique” and there have been neither permissions nor NOCs from authorities involved for the development of a concrete construction.The committee discovered a RCC ground-plus-one construction “in roughly hexagon form”, which “is erected in water physique… floor flooring is used as kitchen and storeroom space”, and the primary flooring, with coconut leaf roofing, is used as a restaurant.It was on the primary flooring {that a} fireplace broke out Saturday, killing 25 individuals, after electrical firecrackers hit the ceiling as a stomach dancer and her troupe carried out.However the coastal authority, chaired by Mishra who’s now posted in Delhi, dismissed the report and accepted the argument that “there is no such thing as a environmental trigger”.The Arpora-Nagoa panchayat had on Oct 31, 1996 issued an NOC to assemble a restaurant, employees quarters, compound wall, and later one other NOC on Aug 12, 2004 to renovate the restaurant.Regardless of the committee attaching a Google picture and the coastal zone administration plan (CZMP) extract, which confirmed the alleged violations, the coastal authority famous “that the CZMP for Goa had already been notified. The CZM signifies that the subject material ground-plus-one RCC construction is outdoors the CRZ space”.The coastal authority report was the results of a grievance by Pradeep Ghadi Amonkar and Sunil Divkar Shetye on Dec 21, 2023, relating to unlawful building of Birch by Romeo Lane.
Companies cross the buck after wetland vanishes
New Delhi: Who’s answerable for a wetland close to Wazirabad disappearing? The Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal is not any nearer to discovering a solution regardless of the Municipal Company of Delhi and the Central Air pollution Management Board submitting their replies.On July 16, 2025, The Occasions of India had reported that the wetland had been stuffed up utilizing inert waste from the Bhalswa landfill. The report highlighted that the Jharoda pond, which supported wealthy plant and hen life till 2023, had been buried beneath inert waste allegedly introduced from the Bhalswa landfill..Taking suo motu cognizance of the report titled ‘Discover it when you can. Wetland close to Wazirabad vanished beneath inert waste’, the tribunal had issued discover to the Municipal Company of Delhi (MCD), Central Air pollution Management Board (CPCB), Delhi Growth Authority (DDA), the North district Justice of the Peace, and the Delhi Air pollution Management Committee (DPCC) looking for an evidence on the matter. Solely MCD and CPCB have responded up to now, with each shifting blame to different businesses.In its submissions MCD mentioned it was the duty of the personal concessionaire appointed to flatten the Bhalswa landfill to make sure the inert materials was disposed of accurately. It additionally mentioned that the location belongs to DDA.In its reply, MCD mentioned it was not “dumping any type of waste at any wetland within the Wazirabad and Timarpur areas”. “The mentioned web site, the place it has been alleged that waste is being dumped, is owned by Delhi Growth Authority,” it mentioned.The civic physique additional acknowledged that it was merely following a 2019 order by the tribunal to get rid of 30 lakh MT of legacy waste from the Bhalswa landfill web site, whereas including that it acquired a request from DDA to facilitate the availability of bioremediated inert materials on Could 24, 2023. It added that the company was neither concerned within the strategy of identification of the location nor within the decision-making course of.The DDA order shared by MCD mentioned, “This workplace permits to produce inert and C&D materials at DDA vacant low-lying space at each side of the Marginal Bandh at Jharoda Majra, Burari.”CPCB, in the meantime, mentioned it had issued instructions in 2021 beneath Part 5 of the Atmosphere (Safety) Act, 1986, to all of the State Air pollution Management Boards and the Air pollution Management Committees for the enforcement of provisions of Stable Waste Administration Guidelines, 2016.“DPCC shall monitor and guarantee compliance with the instructions issued… DPCC shall additionally guarantee enforcement of provisions of the SWM Guidelines 2016 by the involved native authorities in Delhi,” acknowledged CPCB in a submission dated October 27, made obtainable on Dec 9.