NGT slaps Pune builder with ₹1.7 crore penalty for environmental violations
The National Green Tribunal’s western zone bench in Pune has slapped a penalty of ₹1.7 crore on a city-based developer for carrying out large-scale construction on Katraj–Kondhwa Road without securing the mandatory environmental clearances. The tribunal treated the four buildings constructed between 2011 and 2023 as a single integrated project, whose total built-up area crossed the 20,000 sq m threshold requiring prior approvals from the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA). Since no such permissions were taken, the NGT held the developer guilty of blatant violations and cited the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the Goel Ganga case to justify environmental damage compensation. The tribunal made it clear that the penalty was not just punitive but meant to fund restorative measures in the affected area.
The developer has been ordered to deposit the ₹1.7 crore with MPCB within a month, and the pollution board has been directed to utilise it within six months for environmental restoration. The complaint also highlighted illegal borewell usage, narrowing of a natural stream, lack of a sewage treatment plant, and inadequate plantation at the site further exposing systemic neglect of green norms. The NGT said such practices cannot be tolerated, stressing that builders must take environmental obligations seriously and cannot escape accountability in the rush for development. The ruling sends a strong signal to Pune’s real estate industry that non-compliance with environmental laws will invite strict penalties and corrective action.
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