In Supreme Court of India, the ruling in Talli Gram Panchayat vs. Union of India & Ors. settled an important question on limitation under environmental law. The issue was when the limitation period begins for challenging an Environmental Clearance (EC) under Section 16(h) of the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010. The Court held that the limitation period commences from the earliest date of public communication of the EC. It clarified that the duty to communicate an EC is shared by multiple authorities, including the Ministry of Environment, the project proponent, and Pollution Control Boards. Once the EC is placed in the public domain in a clear and accessible manner—such as uploading it on an official website—the requirement of communication is fulfilled. Applying the “principle of first accrual,” the Court ruled that an aggrieved person cannot wait for later or personal knowledge, such as through an RTI reply, to compute limitation. Since the appeal was filed beyond the maximum permissible period of 90 days, it was rightly dismissed as time-barred.