ORDER

1. Both the matters are connected matters and thus are taken together, heard and decided by this common order.

Appeal no. 76/2021

2. The above appeal was taken up for hearing by this Tribunal on

04.01.2022 and was finally disposed of. Aggrieved by the order, an appeal was filed before Hon‘ble the Supreme Court of India and in compliance of Hon‘ble Court‘s order dated 21.10.2022 in Civil Appeal No. 4675/2022, it was restored back for disposal. The order of the Supreme Court of India is quoted below:-

Order dated 21.10.2022

1. The appellant challenged an order dated 25 March 2021 granting Stage I forest clearance to Powergrid Fatehgarh Transmission Limited for constructing a 765 KV DC Fatehgarh -II to Bhadla-II Transmission Line in Rajasthan and an order dated 22 June 2021 granting permission for felling of trees and commencement of work.

2. The NGT dismissed the appeal on the following grounds:

i. The Supreme Court was seized of proceedings relating to the protection of the Great Indian Bustard from transmission lines in M K Ranjitsinh v Union of India, [Writ Petition (Civil) No 838 of 2019] ;

ii. The order under challenge was not a final order and since a final order was yet to be pa