Overview
- A division bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam A. Ankhad issued the order on October 16 on an interim plea by operator SMS Envoclean.
- The extension is split into nine months for MIDC to complete roads, power and water at Jambivali and twelve months for the company to build and commission the facility.
- Operations at the Govandi incinerator may continue until the Ambernath plant is commissioned, with the firm ordered to donate Rs 2 lakh to Victoria Memorial School within four weeks.
- The court recorded that the delay was not attributable to the operator and arose from incomplete basic infrastructure at the new site.
- An earlier plan to move to Patalganga was scrapped and the project was shifted to Jambivali for fewer nearby residents, as MIDC noted its contractor has sought time until August 2026 to finish site works.