SC seeks report from NGT-appointed panel on cleaning of river Yamuna
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The Supreme Court Tuesday sought a report from a committee, arrange by the NGT, on its suggestions for enhancing the water high quality of the Yamuna river and the extent to which the authorities have carried out them.
The National Green Tribunal, on July 26, 2018, had constituted the monitoring committee comprising its former knowledgeable member B.S. Sajwan and former Delhi chief secretary Shailaja Chandra on the cleaning of the Yamuna and had directed it to submit an motion plan on this regard.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde took word of the submission of amicus curiae and senior advocate Meenakshi Arora that the NGT-appointed panel has been monitoring the cleaning of Yamuna water.
In the proceedings performed by video conferencing, the bench, additionally comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao and Vineet Saran, requested the committee to submit its report on suggestions made by it for enhancing the standard of water of Yamuna and the extent to which they’ve been carried out.
Earlier, the highest court docket had taken suo motu cognizance of contamination of rivers by effluent within the nation and had determined to take up the air pollution of Yamuna river first.
While taking cognisance of contamination of rivers, the highest court docket had stated that the pollution-free water is a basic proper which a welfare state is “bound to ensure”.
It had requested Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to submit a report figuring out municipalities alongside the Yamuna which haven’t put in whole therapy vegetation for sewage.
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