NGT Bench At Kochi Shut. Cases Transferred To Chennai Bench

The NGT Bench inaugurated merely 18 months ago at Kochi has been shut down permanently after its functioning stopped on November 10, 2017. Set up on the demand of the environmentalists after receiving number of petitions, the bench was opened in order to address the need of protection and conservation of environment. The Bench closed down owing to the lack of judicial machinery to conduct the proceedings.

With merely a handful of cases some of which had been transferred from the Chennai Bench of NGT and relatively fewer number of proceedings caused people to lose faith resulting in cessation of filing complaints with the judicial framework. As a consequence therefrom the Kochi Bench of NGT became practically non-functional. With the closure of the NGT Bench at Kochi the matters have been transferred to the Chennai Bench of the NGT.