Judgment :

After hearing the learned Amicus Curiae, counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the suggestions placed before us by the learned Attorney General, we pass the following order:-

(1) It is submitted that till the Central Government constitutes a statutory agency as contemplated by Section 3 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, it is necessary and expedient that an authority be constituted at the national level to be called Central Empowered Committee [hereinafter the Empowered Committee] for monitoring of implementation of Hon'ble Court's orders and to place the non-compliance cases before it, including in respect of encroachment removals, implementations of working plans, compensatory afforestation, plantations and other conservation issues.

(2) The Empowered Committee shall comprise of a Chairman to be nominated by Ministry of Environment and Forest [MoEF] in consultation with the Amicus Curiae. It will have one nominee of the MoEF, and two NGOs (also to be nominated in consultation with the Amicus Curiae).

Shri M.K. Jiwrajka will be its Member-Secretary. The persons so appointed (other than the nominee of the Ministry) shall not be removed without l