The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Centre to give the Delhi Ridge Management Board (DRMB) for the conservation, protection and preservation of the Ridge area, statutory backing by notifying it under the Environment Protection Act, while underscoring the significance of the ridge area, which it said serves as the “green lungs” of the national capital.

A bench of Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and K Vinod Chandran asked the Ministry of Environment and Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) “to constitute the DRMB by issuing notification under Section 3(3) of the EP Act.” The Board was constituted by an order of the Supreme Court in 1995.

The bench also directed the reconstitution of the Board, which currently has eight members, with 12 members, including a representative of the Court’s Ce

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