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NGT Notice To Centre Over 2012 Notification On Plastic Ban In Delhi

National Green Tribunal has asked the city Government about the status of 2012 notification banning manufacture, sale and usage of plastic bags in Delhi. NGT says that the city government had exceeded its jurisdiction in issuing the notification.

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New Delhi: The city government’s 2012 notification banning manufacture, sale and usage of plastic bags in Delhi has come under challenge, with the National Green Tribunal seeking the response from the Centre, Delhi government and others on the matter.

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A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notices to Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Delhi Government, Delhi Pollution Control Committee and Delhi Cantonment Board while seeking their reply before February 13, the next date of hearing.

The tribunal was hearing a plea by All India Plastic Industries Association and others challenging Delhi government’s October 23, 2012 notification banning the manufacture, sale, storage, usage, import and transport of all kinds of plastic carry bags in the city. The matter was transferred from Delhi High Court to the NGT, in December last year, which had said that the tribunal was already hearing pleas against the use of plastic carry bags in various areas of Punjab and Haryana.

While sending the matter to the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the High Court had asked the Delhi government not to take any coercive steps against petitioner Plastic Manufacturers Association for eight weeks. The erstwhile Sheila Dikshit government had issued the order which was to come into force from November 23, 2012, but the high court had stayed it then. The association had challenged the notification saying, “declare impugned notification of October 23, 2012 null and void being ultra vires to the parent Act, i.e. the Environment Protection Act and Rules framed there under. The notification also violates the fundamental rights of the petitioner.”

It had claimed that the city government had exceeded its jurisdiction in issuing the notification.

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