JUDGMENT

BY HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ARUN KUMAR TYAGI, JUDICIAL MEMBER

1. The applicant-Balbir Sandhu has filed the present original application under Sections 14 and 18 of the National Green Tribunal seeking the following reliefs: -

“a) To quash the impugned letters dated 27/02/2023, 25/01/2023 and 18/05/2023 whereby the Director, Mines and Geology, Haryana has approved the Mining Plans of a). R M Mines, b), SCP Commodities and c). Reliable Mining Corporation, respectively as the same are in violation of District Survey Plan, Ambala as well as against the provisions of Environment Protection Rules, 1986 and the notifications issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change, Government of INDIA.

b) Direct Chief Secretary, Haryana to appoint NODAL OFFICER (Joint Secretary Rank) for the purpose securing riverine ecology of the Rivers mentioned in the District Survey Plan Ambala.

c) Direct Respondents and in particular Chief Secretary, Haryana to create effective mechanism that extraction of Mineable Minerals shall be done in accordance with District Survey Report, Ambala. d) Pass any other or further orders, as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the circumstances o