JUDGMENT

BY HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR AGARWAL, JUDICIAL MEMBER

1. Dinesh Bothra, applicant has preferred this Original Application (hereinafter referred to as ‘OA’) under Section 14 of National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 (hereinafter referred to as ‘NGT Act, 2010’), challenging Notice Inviting Bid (hereinafter referred to as ‘NIB/NIT’) dated

21.11.2022 (annexure A-1 to OA) issued by Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as ‘ERCPCL’) Jaipur inviting online bids for the work of reclamation of storage capacity of Bisalpur Dam by desilting, in District Tonk, Rajasthan on the ground that the said NIB/NIT, in fact, is not an exercise of desilting for maintenance of Bisalpur Dam but involves mining of sand and gravel etc. and without preparation of a final District Survey Report (hereinafter referred to as ‘DSR’), no mining activity can be carried out, in view of the provisions of Environmental Impact Assessment Notification dated 14.09.2006 (hereinafter referred to as ‘EIA 2006’) read with Sustainable Sand Mining Management Guidelines, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as ‘SSMMG-2016’ and Enforcement and Monitoring Guidelines for Sand Mining-2020 (hereinaf