The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a fact-finding committee after taking suo moto cognizance of media reports stating seven dead as part of a limestone mine collapse in Bastar Village of Chhattisgarh. NGT in an order passed last week stated that since it appears from the media report that intervention of this Tribunal is called for under Section 15 of the NGT Act for providing relief to the victims of the incident and to prevent such incidents in future, we constitute a fact-finding Committee.
