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Item No. 02

Court No. 1

BEFORE THE NATIONAL GREEN TRIBUNAL

PRINCIPAL BENCH, NEW DELHI

(By Hybrid Mode)

Original Application No. 561/2022

Urvashi Shobhna Kachari

Applicant

Versus

Union of India & Ors.

Respondent(s)

Date of hearing:

08.02.2023

CORAM :

HONBLE MR. JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL, CHAIRPERSON

HONBLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR AGARWAL, JUDICIAL MEMBER

HONBLE MR. JUSTICE ARUN KUMAR TYAGI, JUDICIAL MEMBER

HONBLE DR. AFROZ AHMAD, EXPERT MEMBER

Applicant:

Mr. Raj Panjwani, Senior Advocate with Ms. Esha Dutta, Advocate

Respondents: Mr. Rahul Verma, AAG for the State of Uttarakhand

Mr. Thakur Sumit, Advocate for MoEF & CC

Mr. Mukesh Verma, Advocate for UKPCB

ORDER

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Grievance in this application is against large scale unregulated

violation of environmental norms along the pilgrim tracks of Kedarnath,

Hemkund Sahib, Yamunotri and Gomukh pilgrimage centres in

Uttarakhand. Such violations inter alia consist of indiscriminate disposal

of plastic and animal waste, unregulated human waste, unregulated

equine dung/waste/carcasses. More than 19 lakhs pilgrims visit such

places about 20,000 equines are used in a seas