The panel was set up in the wake of the Joshimath land subsidence crisis and in light of a newspaper report published in January which said “Joshimath is a warning for Mussoorie”.
On Tuesday, the Tribunal uploaded on its website a document ‘Bird’s eye view of NGT performance in the last five years (July 2018 – July 2023)’ which refers to an “illustrative” list of 127 orders, and 35 illustrative cases in which the ‘polluter pays’ principle has been applied.