In Re: T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad vs Union of India

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2018 Supreme(SC) 2090

MADAN B. LOKUR, DEEPAK GUPTA, HEMANT GUPTA
In Re: T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Amicus : Harish N. Salve, A.D.N. Rao, Sudipto Sircar, Siddhartha Chowdhury, Aparajita Singh.
For the Petitioners: Prashant Bhushan, Pranav Sachdeva, Raj Panjwani, Purnima Bhat.
For the Respondents: A.N.S. Nadkarni, Kiran Bhardwaj, Anirudh Dwivedi, Suhasini Sen, Ritesh Kumar, R. Bala, Rachna Gupta, Vikas Chaudhary, Sachin Sharma, S. Wasim A. Qadri, D.L. Chidanand, A.K. Sharma, Aayushi Singh, G.S. Makker, Amit Sharma, Ankit Raj, Nidhi Jaswal, Ruchi Kohli, D.K. Garg, Nirnimesh Dubey, Suchitra A. Chitale, Hemantika Wahi, Tarun Johri, Arjun Garg, Pragyan Sharma, Mudit Makhijani, Shikhar Garg, P.V. Yogeshwaran, Pratibha Jain, Pravin H. Parekh, Lalit Chauhan, S. Lakshmi Iyer, Sarthak Gaur, Aishwarya Dash, Vishal Prasad, Nishant R. Katneshwarkar, Sumita Hazarika, Shuvodeep Roy, Jayant Mohan, Ivo D' Costa, Pawan Kishor Singh, Madhusmita Bora, A.N.S. Nadkarni, Merusagar Samantray, S.S. Rebello, Leelesh Krishna, Snehapravu Tendulkar, Babita Yadav, Amit Sharma, Ankit Raj, R.C. Kohli, Nishe Rajen Shonker, Anu K. Joy, Alim Anvar, Reegan S. Bel, Prabha Swami, Divya Swami, Nikhil Swami, Rajesh Srivastava, G. Seshagiri Rao, Sridhar Potaraju, Aruna Mathur, Avneesh Arputham, Anuradha Arputham, Geetanjali, Bhavanishankar V. Gadnis, Jayant Mohan, Anil Shrivastava, Prafulla Hegde.

ORDER :

1. The learned ASG has informed us that there are 104 National Parks and 558 Wildlife Sanctuaries making a total of 662 National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries in the country.

2. The proposals for declaring areas around these National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries as Eco Sensitive Zone have been received from State Governments/UT Administrations for 641 National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries. No proposals have been received in respect of 21 National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries.

3. The proposals have been accepted and Notification has been issued in respect of 289 National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries as on 26.11.2018 and draft Notification has been prepared in respect of 206 National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries.

4. The declaration with regard to Eco Sensitive Zone is under process with the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF) as well as with the State Governments in respect of 146 National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries.

5. We expect the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change to actively pursue the preparation of the draft Notification and to issue a final Notification at the earliest.

6. The proposals for 21 National Parks and Wildlif

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2018 Supreme(SC) 2090

MADAN B. LOKUR, DEEPAK GUPTA, HEMANT GUPTAIn Re: T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad – AppellantVersusUnion of India – Respondent

MADAN B. LOKUR, DEEPAK GUPTA, HEMANT GUPTA
In Re: T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent