India, Dec. 14 -- In an order with wider civic implications, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to frame and notify within three months a standard operating protocol to curb air and noise pollution from construction activities across the city, even as it allowed construction to continue at a project in Baner.

The Western Zone Bench of the NGT, comprising Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh and expert member Sujit Kumar Bajpayee, passed the order on December 8 while disposing of a complaint filed by the Supreme Pallacio Co-operative Housing Society in Baner against a neighbouring construction project. The tribunal clarified that it was not inclined to halt construction at this stage but stressed tha...