Supreme Court asks selection panel to fill up NGT vacancies 'expeditiously'

The top court was told that the government had already published advertisement for filling up nine vacancies

The Supreme Court has asked for speeding up the process of filling up vacancies in the National Green Tribunal to address the "piquant situation" created due to reduced working strength of the green panel.

A bench comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna requested the Selection Committee to expedite the processes so that the appointment letters are issued in time.

"We hope and trust that the selection process for judicial members is also speeded up because the mandate of law is that the strength of judicial members and expert members should ordinarily be equivalent.

"In other words,