 bill no 88 of  2016 the national green tribunal (amendment) bill, 2016 by shri ravneet singh bittu, mp a billto amend the national green tribunal act, 2010be  it enacted by parliament in the sixty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—19 of 2010amendment of section 52 in section 5 of the national green tribunal act, 2010, in sub-section (1), for the words "unless he is, or has been, a judge of the supreme court of india or chief justice of a high court", the words "unless he is a judge of the supreme court of india or chief justice of a high court or an advocate for at least ten years in a high court or in two or more such courts in succession" shall be substituted5 statement  of  objects  and  reasonsit has been observed that in various tribunals and other quasi-judicial bodies a huge pendency of cases lies it is primarily for the reason that the seat of chairperson or other judicial members remain vacant due to delay in appointment of judges as the chairperson or members, as the case may be, of tribunals or quasi-judicial bodiestherefore, the proposed amendment is put forth to remove the provision for appointment of retired judges as the chairperson and members in these tribunals thus, only a sitting judge of the supreme court or a high court, as the case may be, can be appointed to this post if that judge wishes to leave his office of judge voluntary and assents to join tribunalthe bill also proposes to insert provisions wherein an advocate with not less than ten years of practice becomes eligible to be appointed as the chairperson of the tribunal this shall facilitate the speedy disposal of the cases pending before the tribunals because the positions in the tribunals shall not remain vacant for long this also captures the idea of providing equal opportunity to people with equal experience and eligibility march 9,  2016 annexure extract from the national green tribunal act, 20105 (1) a person shall not be qualified for appointment as the chairperson or judicial member of the tribunal unless he is, or has been, a judge of the supreme court of india or chief justice of a high court:qualifications for appointment of chairperson, judicial member and expert memberprovided that a person who is or has been a judge of the high court shall also be qualified to be appointed as a judicial member———— a billto amend the national green tribunal act, 2010————(shri ravneet singh bittu, mp)gmgipmrnd—5329ls(s3)—19042016