India, July 7 -- The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT)that it has levied an environmental compensation of Rs.5 lakh on a factory running in Delhi Cantonment's Sadar Bazar which was found to be operating without a valid consent to operate (CTO) and a consent to establish (CTE).

A notice to Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has also been issued to take action against an overflowing dhalao (a concrete structure for temporary collection of garbage from the neighborhood) in west Delhi's Hari Nagar.

Referring to the Sadar Bazar case, DPCC said multiple letters were received on September 6 last year from the office of the then Delhi cabinet minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, who referred to a compl...