The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has informed the National Green Tribunal that it has issued a notification for identification and protection of wetlands which prohibit encroachments of any kind, waste dumping and discharge of effluents.

A bench of Justice R S Rathore and expert member S S Garbyal was told by the Environment Ministry that state governments have been directed to proceed in the matter as per the Wetland (Conservation and Management) Rules 2017 which was issued on September 26 last year.

The tribunal was also apprised that the Supreme Court has already identified certain numbers of wetlands and ordered that they should be protected.

Notification for identification of wetlands issued: MoEF tells NGT

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