Ganga pollution: NGT convenes meeting of stakeholders
16 April 2015 6:01 AM IST
The National Green has convened a joint meeting of stakeholders on May 1 to discuss a strategy for making Ganga pollution-free and chalk out a workable solution. "It will be possible for the Tribunal to direct the shutting down of all the polluting industries as all of them are seriously polluting industries. But that will adversely affect the economic development and the lives of a large number of people dependent on it.
"In the interest of justice and in order to find the workable solution, short of closing the industry which will fall within ambit of the sustainable development but at the same time will protect the environment that is the pollution of river Ganga, we direct...to be present in the meeting to be held on May 1, 2015 at 1:00 pm in the Conference Room of the NGT," a bench headed by NGT Chairperson Swatanter Kumar said. The joint meeting will be attended by Chief Secretary of UP government, state environment and irrigation Secretary, MD, UP Jal Nigam, Chairman/ Member Secretary, UP Pollution Control Board, E R Nath, senior scientist of Central Leather Research Institute.
"In the interest of justice and in order to find the workable solution, short of closing the industry which will fall within ambit of the sustainable development but at the same time will protect the environment that is the pollution of river Ganga, we direct...to be present in the meeting to be held on May 1, 2015 at 1:00 pm in the Conference Room of the NGT," a bench headed by NGT Chairperson Swatanter Kumar said. The joint meeting will be attended by Chief Secretary of UP government, state environment and irrigation Secretary, MD, UP Jal Nigam, Chairman/ Member Secretary, UP Pollution Control Board, E R Nath, senior scientist of Central Leather Research Institute.
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