Overview
- Chief Justice Surya Kant said increasing green cover is a viable, long-term way to improve Delhi-NCR’s air quality.
- The bench agreed to take up an out-of-turn plea on citywide greening, with listing sought as early as Monday.
- M.D. Sinha, a retired Indian Forest Service officer, was chosen to replace Ishwar Singh on the three-member expert panel after Singh joined the National Green Tribunal.
- The committee was formed to oversee compensatory afforestation for trees felled in the Delhi Ridge, and the amicus urged it also supervise earlier green-cover directives.
- The panel vacancy surfaced when the court recently allowed the DDA to cut 152 Ridge trees for road access to the CAPFIMS hospital.