Item No. 08 BEFORE THE NATIONAL GREEN TRIBUNAL CENTRAL ZONE BENCH, BHOPAL (Through Video Conferencing)

Original Application No. 184/2023(CZ)

Amit Sethi Applicant(s)

Vs.

State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. Respondent(s)

Date of Hearing: 23.04.2024 CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SHEO KUMAR SINGH, JUDICIAL MEMBER HON’BLE DR. AFROZ AHMAD, EXPERT MEMBER For Applicant(s): None.

For Respondent(s) : Mr. Prashant M. Harne, Adv.

(Mr. Mehul Bhardwaj, Adv.)

Mr. Pranjal Pandey, Adv.

(for Ms. Parul Bhadoria, Adv.)

ORDER

1. T he issue raised in this application is cutting of more than 98 green trees for the construction of Khachrod‟s Government Higher Secondary School as a new C.M. Rise School Building without the permission of the Forest Department. The submission of the applicant is that the construction can be raised without the cutting of the trees or minimum damage to the trees and green belt of the area which may be useful in future for the school also and that the authority must have to take requisite permission from the Forest Department with condition of minimum ten times of plantation of trees which are being damaged by the school authorities for construction of the school.

2. This Tribunal took the cogniz