Goa, June 27 -- In a significant development that could reshape how environmental penalties are determined in India's coastal regulation zones, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) to reassess its environmental compensation order in a multi-crore penalty case-following the authority's own admission of computational errors.

The tribunal's intervention came after a legal challenge questioning the GCZMA's jurisdiction and penalty calculation methods in a case involving a Rs 39.5 crore compensation order. The appellant argued that the penalty was disproportionately high and unsupported by statutory provisions, bringing into focus major gaps in India's existing framework for assessin...