[ad_1]
Considering the extent of harm prompted to river Vrishabhavathi, the State authorities should appoint an knowledgeable agency just like the CSIR National Environmental Engineering Research Institute for taking steps to defend and rejuvenate the waterbody, the Karnataka High Court mentioned on Monday.
If the State authorities doesn’t present willingness to appoint the agency, the court docket would problem a path for appointing an knowledgeable agency, a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Ashok S. Kinagi mentioned. The knowledgeable agency ought to supervise steps to be taken by all of the authorities for safeguarding and rejuvenating the river, the court docket noticed, whereas directing the State authorities to inform whether or not it should appoint such an agency.
The Bench was listening to a PIL petition filed by Geeta Misra, resident of Bengaluru. The petitioner had complained about industrial effluents and sewage being discharged into the river by residential, industrial and industrial items, in violation of statutory provision of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution ) Act,1975.
[ad_2]
