Archive · 21 Jul 2026
NGT Orders Protection Measures for Bhopal's Shahpura Lake
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Bhopal Municipal Corporation and other authorities to take immediate steps to protect Shahpura Lake.
This includes stopping new encroachments, preventing illegal construction, and ensuring that no untreated sewage or wastewater enters the lake.
The NGT also directed the authorities to accurately demarcate the lake and its buffer zone using available land records and submit a compliance report within three weeks.
Additionally, the tribunal ordered the removal of desilting material dumped along the lake's banks within one week to prevent it from washing back into the lake during the monsoon.
The next hearing on this matter is scheduled for September 2.
NGT ordered Bhopal authorities to prevent fresh encroachments and illegal construction around Shahpura Lake.
Authorities directed to stop untreated sewage or wastewater discharge into the lake.
NGT granted environmental activist Nitin Saxena three weeks to file a rejoinder on the joint committee report.
BMC informed the joint committee that scientific demarcation of Shahpura Lake was not possible due to discrepancies in FTL coordinates.
NGT ordered the removal of desilting material dumped along the lake's banks within one week.
- Who
- National Green Tribunal (NGT), Central Zone Bench
- What
- Issued directions to protect Shahpura Lake
- When
- Monday (specific date not mentioned)
- Where
- Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
- Why
- To prevent encroachments, illegal construction, and untreated sewage discharge into the lake
- Location
- Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
- Authorities Involved
- Bhopal Municipal Corporation, Collector, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board
- Key Issues
- Encroachments, illegal construction, untreated sewage discharge
- Next Hearing
- September 2
- Demarcation Deadline
- Three weeks
- Desilting Deadline
- One week