NGT seeks response from MoEFCC on pollution done by slaughterhouses

The National Green Tribunal has recently sought a response from the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) and others while hearing a petition regarding the pollution caused by slaughterhouses.

The petition claimed that slaughterhouses contributed immensely to pollution besides damaging the environment.

It said whenever a new slaughterhouse was to be established, it was necessary to examine its impact on the environment according to the 2006 Environment Impact Assessment notification brought out to scrutinise all information about a project or activity and its potential adverse impacts on the ecology of a region.

The petition argued that slaughterhouses and processing units must be brought within the ambit of the notification.

A bench comprising judicial member Justice Sudhir Agarwal and expert member A Senthil Vel said it was a "substantial question" related to environment.

"Let respondents No. 1 (MoEF&CC)...file their response, if any, within one