NGT FORMS PANEL TO PREVENT DISCHARGE OF EFFLUENTS IN GANGA

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) constituted a five-member expert Committee for preventing further discharge of chromium or other effluents at Jajmau or other such places in Ganga.

The NGT said, “We find it necessary to constitute a five-member expert Committee under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary, Uttar Pradesh with nominees of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) and District Magistrates of Kanpur Dehat and Kanpur Nagar.” The tribunal said that the CPCB and the State PCB will be nodal agencies jointly and the committee may meet within two weeks and prepare a road map for remedial action.

“The plan should result in remediation of dumpsites as well as preventing further discharge of chromium or other effluents at Jajmau or other such places in Ganga,” an NGT bench headed by its chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said asking to file an action taken report of compliance status as on March 31 2022.

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