Jammu, April 22 -- Jammu, Apr 22; The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has sought a specific progress affidavit from the Jammu Municipal Corporation in a long-pending public interest litigation highlighting serious environmental governance failures in Jammu, including alleged irregular clearances to polluting industries, unscientific waste dumping near Jammu Airport and along River Tawi, and lack of transparency in pollution monitoring.
Hearing a Public Interest Litigation, Rajinder Singh vs State of J&K and others, a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal observed that though several orders have been passed since the petition was filed in 2014, "little has been achieved on the ground."
The pe...