AN ANALYSIS OF JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVE OF NGT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

In order to resolve the conflicts between environment and development many legal efforts
have been taken at international and national level since 1972 to till date for achieving the
sustainable development goal. The principles of Stockholm Conference and Rio
Declaration and other International Instruments provide the protection and improvement
of human environment as well as access to judicial remedy and effective adjudication of
environmental disputes by the national court. There is no doubt that Indian judiciary
particularly Supreme Court and High Courts played an important role in developing the
environmental jurisprudence. Further, the complex nature of environmental disputes which
Insole scientific and other sues the Supreme Court expressed his desire in number of cases
for the need of a specialized court Related to environmental matters Apart from that the
Law Commission of India in its 186th Report 2003, also proposed to constitute
environment courts for achieving the objectives of Articles 21, 47 ,48 A, 51 A (g) of the
Constitution of India, 1950 by means of fast, fair and satisfactory judicial process. Keeping
in view the abuse developments the Parliament has passed a comprehensive legislation
named as the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 the effective and expeditious disposal of
cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of forests and other natural
resources for realizing goals of sustainable development. In this paper, the researcher
attempted to analysis the jurisprudence of NGT on sustainable development measures with
the effective implementations.