New Delhi [India], September 6 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has dismissed the evaluation petitions of the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) moved in opposition to its latest order imposing compensation on them after discovering their failure to manage the discharge of untreated sewer waste into drains, inflicting air pollution within the river Yamuna.
Last month, the tribunal held them accountable for water air pollution and decided legal responsibility for compensation to be spent for restoration to the extent of Rs 100 crore (for Noida) and Rs 50 crore (DJB) respectively, contemplating the violation of environmental norms, the quantum of air pollution and price of remediation.
On Monday, the bench headed by Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel handed the order dismissing the evaluation petitions and stated “we have heard Sanjay Jain, ASG (appeared for DJB) and also Ritu Maheshwari, CEO, NOIDA, present by video conferencing.”In the Noida matter, the bench famous that the bottom of evaluation acknowledges that air pollution remains to be persevering with and remedial motion is proposed. In spite thereof, the competition is that NOIDA has no legal responsibility for such persevering with air pollution.
The bench whereas listening to the Noida evaluation plea famous that every one the group housing societies needs to be handled as compliant, and the STPs of NOIDA needs to be handled as compliant merely as a result of the evaluation applicant is within the technique of inspecting the viability and monetary implications for putting in Tertiary Treatment Plants (TTPs) by way of instructions of the state PCB as per the order of this Tribunal.
On its personal stand that requisite tertiary remedy crops are but to be put in by NOIDA, non-compliance stays. As already talked about, with regard to Group Housing Societies, most of the STPs stay non-compliant. Even if additional remedial steps have been taken, as claimed, legal responsibility for previous violations will not be affected. In view of the above, even on reconsideration, we don’t discover any advantage within the evaluation utility filed by NOIDA. The identical is dismissed, the bench stated.
In evaluation, plea DJB contended that Yamuna Monitoring Committee constituted by this Tribunal has monitored compliance is equally untenable.
On this NGT stated the mere proven fact that Monitoring Committee monitored Yamuna air pollution doesn’t imply that the DJB needs to be handled as compliant when it’s not proven that the stated Committee discovered DJB compliant.
Far from this, DJB was repeatedly discovered non-compliant because the stories will present and instructions had been issued for remedial motion which stays uncompiled up to now.
Tribunal discover the evaluation petition of the Delhi Jal Board devoid of advantage and dismissed it.
The NGT in its order on August 3, 2022, stated that the Chief Secretary of Delhi and UP will likely be free to determine the erring officers within the course of, take remedial motion, and recuperate compensation from such erring officers/violators, together with group housing societies.
The Green Court’s course got here on a plea of Abhisht Kusum Gupta, a Noida Resident in opposition to the disposal of sewer waste within the irrigation canal in Sector-137, Noida. (ANI)