The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notice to Odisha Government seeking reply on revival of a ‘dead’ water channel meandering through the Mahanadi-Chitrotpala-Paika islands of Cuttack, Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur.
The Committee shall visit the site in question and submit its report on affidavit within four weeks, concluded the order.
The committee will visit the sites in question and submit its report on an affidavit regarding the allegations made in the complaint letter within four weeks.
RTI activists Srikant Paikal and others had moved the apex green tribunal alleging that Sambalpur-based Shanti Construction Company had resorted to day broad day light of minor minerals from Tangi-Choudwar tehsil of Cuttack district.`
The case pertains to the discharge of untreated leachate into river Beas at village Rangadi, gram panchayat Shallen, Manali .
The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is the nodal agency for the project.
In a joint statement, state Kisan wing chief, Kultar Singh Sandhwan, Meet Hayer and Rupinder Kaur Ruby (All MLAs), said that cases against thousands of farmers had been registered on the charge of burning paddy straw, saying that it was a dictatorial and one-sided order even as the state and central governments were equally responsible for the sorry state of affairs.
According to Bipin Bihari Gupta, the former president and a member of the Sri Sri Lal Mohan Moulik Niranjan Ghat puja committee, rivers flowing in the town are not in a state of being worshipped anymore.
The damage to the biodiversity comes after two days, when a large number of puja revellers broke the locks of the gates of Rabindra Sarobar and trooped inside the lake.
State govt, police keep mum as NGT directives flouted for second day; security personnel are outnumbered by army of violators.
