The Supreme Court recently slammed the practice of filing pleas to stall developmental projects, questioning how the country will progress if such pleas are filed. “Show us even a single project in this country where these so-called environmental activists have said that we welcome this project,” a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said on May 11. The court was hearing a plea against an order of the National Green Tribunal’s western zone bench. The tribunal had dismissed an appeal seeking the quashing of the environmental and coastal regulation zone clearance granted for the expansion and modernisation of the Pipava Port in Gujarat. ‘How country will progress?’
“The problem is in this country, the kind of litigations are filed are only to stall development projects. That is the problem…See you people don’t want ports to be expanded. How the country is going to progress? We can’t understand” the Supreme Court remarked.