Ex-judge AK Sikri appointed as a executive of the High Powered Committee (HPC) by the supreme Court, which would consider the total and autonomous effect of the Chardham project on the whole Himalayan valley.
A seat of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant acknowledged the renunciation of Professor Ravi Chopra as director of the advisory group after he composed a letter in January wishing to give up his post.
Principal felony officer KK Venugopal, displaying up for the Center stated that when you consider that Justice (retd) Sikri has now been delegated by this court as director of the oversight board to care for ecological worries and different issues connected with the Chardham project, it would be better assuming he is named as Chairperson.
The seat consented to the concept and decided on Justice (retd) Sikri.
Chopra changed into decided on as govt of the HPC via way of means of the pinnacle courtroom docket on August 8, 2019.
On December 14, last year, the top court had permitted twofold path broadening of the vital Chardham interstate undertaking in Uttarakhand, seeing that the country’s security concerns might change over the long run and the new past has tossed genuine public safety challenges.
The court in the activity of legal survey can’t re-think the infrastructural needs of the military,” the top court had said while setting up an oversight advisory group headed by Justice (retd) Sikri to answer to it straightforwardly on the aggressive 900-km project, which goes up to the line with China.
