New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Centre to come out with "structured" guidelines for imposing compensation for violations under the Solid Waste Management Rules observing that the same cannot be left to the discretion of regulatory bodies, tribunals and courts. In an attempt to make the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 effective, a bench of justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe formulated eight guiding principles based on judicial precedents and said, "We direct the ministry of environment forests and climate change (MoEFCC) to take into account the above-referred principles for determination and imposition of environmental compensation, as also the Rules that operate in the field, to formulate the necessary ...