The case is about limestone mining at Dehradun, which has threatened the lives of residents and may have done severe harm to the ecosystem. ... However, quarrying restarted after the state government awarded various mining licenses for twenty years in 1962. Although rehabilitation contracts were offered in 1982, the state …

The result was severe and reckless quarrying, as the operators tried to maximize their Bandyopadhyay & Shiva: The Conflict Over Limestone Quarrying in Doon Valley, …

The court found that the quarries in the area posed a danger to the valley due to erratic, irrational, and uncontrolled quarrying. The court also noted that the extraction of …

The leading environmental cases decided by the Supreme Court includes case of closure of limestone quarries in the Dehradun region (Dehradun Quarrying case, AIR 1985 SC 652), the installation of safeguard at a chlorine plant in Delhi M.C. Mehta V. Union of India, AIR 1988 SC 1037) etc. In Vellore Citizens Welfare Forum vs. Union of …

The Dehradun limestone quarrying case (1983), followed by the Ganga water pollution case, and Delhi vehicular pollution case to Vellore leather industry pollution case, and the T.N. Godavarman case, all cases were brought to the attention of the court through PILs. It should be thus noted that the development of environmental PIL in India …

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limestone mining in dehradun pdf T09:05:51+00:00 (PDF) The Conflict Over Limestone Quarrying in Doon Valley . Bandyopadhyay Shiva: The Conflict Over Limestone Quarrying in Doon Valley, Dehradun, India 137 Earlier, in the 8th Settlement Report, it had been pithily being destroyed, and the decline in the cattle population in …

dc.description.abstract. The Doon Valley, in the foothills of the Himalayas in the State of Uttar Pradesh in India, has become the centre of major public-interest litigation in the Supreme Court of India. The conflict is centred around the utilization of the rich limestone deposits located in the Mussoorie Hills in the northern part of the Valley.

Jul 20, 2013. --- ENDS ---. In an effort to develop the "industrially backward" Dehra Dun, the Uttar Pradesh Government gave a green signal for scores of limestone quarries and ancillary industries to sprout in the Doon Valley. But as a sop to ecologists, the Government recently attempted to ban quarrying in the hills, which to everybody's ...

Law and Cases; Court Decisions; Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra Dehradun and others (Petitioners) v. State of U.P. and others (Respondents) ... The Court was of the view that lime-stone quarrying and excavation of the lime-stone deposits seemed to affect the perennial water springs. The environmental disturbance had however to be ...

ecological balance. In order to mitigate the hardship, the court directed the State of U.P. to give priority to the claims of the displaced lessees Mussoorie Hills, in other parts of the …

Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra v. State of U.P., WP 8209 & 8821 of 1983 (1985.03.12) (Dehradun quarries case) marzo 12, 1985; Minería

The first report on the record is dated 18th of February, 1989, jointly given by the Additional District Magistrate, Dehradun, D.P. Sharma, Geologist of Dehradun and the Forest Range Officer, Mussoorie. This report indicated that limestone extracted was found lying scattered in dif- ferent marble pits and also heaps of different shapes.

Abstract: This decision related to earlier decisions by the Supreme Court in the same matter. The Supreme Court had received a writ petition from Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra regarding the unauthorised and illegal operation of lime-stone quarries in the Mussoorie Hill range, India. It was argued that the quarries caused a …

& Others CITATION 1985 AIR 652 DATE OF THE CASE March 12, 1985 APPELLANT Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra & Others RESPONDENT State of U.P. ... addressing the issue of unauthorized and illegal limestone mining activities in the Mussoorie Hill range, Dehradun, India. The petitioner contended that such mining …

Kendra, Dehradun v. State ofU.P.,1 popularly known as the Doon Valley case or the Mussoorie Hills case is a significant landmark in the evolution of the law and judicial practice on environmental issues in India. In the words of the bench consisting of P.N. Bhagwati J. (as he then was), A.N. Sen and Ranganath Misra JJ.

A public interest litigation, containing allegations of unauthorised and illegal mining in the Mussoorie-Dehradun belt, affecting adversely the ecology and environmental order of the area, was filed against the Governments of the Union and of Uttar Pradesh, agencies and mining lessees. A number of committees and working groups were set up both by the …

Tata Iron and Steel Company at Jamshedpur, however, received a sizeable supply from the Dehradun quarries. According to this affidavit, in 1986, the total production of high grade limestone in the Dehradun-Mussoorie area was 6.02 lakh tonnes. The affidavit indicated availability of such limestone in several other parts of the country.

This case deals with limestone mining carried out in Dehradun that has endangered life of inhabitants and could have caused irreversible damage to the ecosystem. A writ petition was filed in Supreme Court by Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra regarding the unauthorised and illegal mining of lime-stone in the Mussoorie …

The District Magistrate, Dehradun deputed the Sub-Divisional Magistrates of Mussoorie and Tehsildar (Quarry) Dehradun to inspect the 20 stone quarries comprised in …

The leading environmental cases decided by the Supreme Court includes case of closure of limestone quarries in the Dehradun region (Dehradun Quarrying case, AIR 1985 SC 652), the installation of safeguard at a chlorine plant in .

This case is known as the very first case requiring the Supreme Court to balance environmental and ecological integrity against industrial demands on forest resources. The facts of the case are simple: quarrying was being carried out in the Mussoorie region of the Himalayas. Many landslides occurred, which devastated the area and killed the locals, …

An early case in point is the Dehradun Quarrying Case, (Rural Litigation & Entitlement Kendra v State of Uttar Pradesh (1989) Supp (1) SCC 504) where the Supreme Court directed a letter to be treated as a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution. The letter alleged that illegal limestone quarrying was devastating the fragile ...

It evaluates the negative externalities of limestone quarrying in Doon Valley that damages perennial economic activities such as agriculture and tourism. The official steps taken by …

Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra Dehradun & Others v. State of ...

In fact, the limestone quarrying case fought by Dehradun-based Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK), founded by Kaushal, was the first case relating to environmental protection to be ...

Abstract: The Doon Valley, in the foothills of the Himalayas in the State of Uttar Pradesh in India, has become the centre of major public-interest litigation in the Supreme Court of India. The conflict is centred around the utilization of the rich limestone deposits located in the Mussoorie Hills in the northern part of the Valley.

In the year 1983, the Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra sent a letter of complaint to the Supreme Court which was concerning the environmental degradation in …