https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=198264 Extensive mining in the Aravalli Hill Range had caused irreversible ecological degradation, including land damage, groundwater impact and abandoned pits, and the Court treated continued extraction as unjustified where statutory rehabilitation, reclamation and restoration duties were not complied with. Applying sustainable development and the precautionary principle, it adopted a macro, holistic environmental assessment rather than a project-specific approach. Mining operations in the identified area of Haryana were suspended until a reclamation plan, certified by the competent authorities, was prepared and implemented. en-us Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:04:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=198264 Extensive mining in the Aravalli Hill Range had caused irreversible ecological degradation, including land damage, groundwater impact and abandoned pits, and the Court treated continued extraction as unjustified where statutory rehabilitation, reclamation and restoration duties were not complied with. Applying sustainable development and the precautionary principle, it adopted a macro, holistic environmental assessment rather than a project-specific approach. Mining operations in the identified area of Haryana were suspended until a reclamation plan, certified by the competent authorities, was prepared and implemented. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=198264