Irked over non-execution of its order on payment Rs100 crore to a Panama-based shipping company and its two Qatar based sister concerns for causing oil spill off Mumbai coast in 2011, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Government to ensure its implementation in two weeks.
The green panel on August 23 last year had directed the three companies to pay the amount as environmental compensation to the Ministry of Shipping. It also ordered Gujarat-based Adani Enterprises ltd to pay Rs5 crore as EC for dumping on the seabed 60,054 metric tonnes of coal which was being carried by the ship MV RAK.
A bench, headed by NGT chief Justice Swatanter Kumar, directed Ministry of Shipping and other ministries concerned to seek instructions with regard to execution of its August 23 order.
The NGT had delivered the judgment on the plea of a Mumbai-based environmentalist seeking execution of its order directing three firms to pay damages for causing an oil spill when a cargo vessel sank off Mumbai coast in 2011, damaging marine ecology.