UP banned from spending on Ganga projects
Q. NGT has banned spending on the Ganga in which state?- Published on 20 Oct 16a. Bihar
b. Odisha
c. UP
d. Uttarakhand
ANSWER: UP
The National Green Tribunal has rapped UP government for wasting crores of rupees of public money on Ganga rejuvenation and restrained it from spending on any major project except maintenance work on the stretch from Haridwar to Kanpur.
- The state of Uttar Pradesh and its authorities will not carry out any major project of Sewage Treatment Plant/ Common Effluent Treatment Plant except under the directions of the NGT with the exception of the maintenance of pipelines
- The NGT passed the order after Central Pollution Control Board and state authorities including UP Jal Nigam failed to state the total number of industrial units and the quantum of industrial waste discharged by them into the Ganga
- Tribunal said authorities were spending large amounts on projects without knowing the requisite details
- On December 11, 2015 the tribunal had banned use of plastic of any kind from Gomukh to Haridwar along the river from February 1 and decide to slap a penalty of INR 5000 days for erring hotels, ashrams and dharamshalas spewing waste into the river
- NGT was established in 2010 under the NGT Act 2010 for effective disposal of causes related to environmental protection and conservation of forests and other natural resources
- It also works for the legal rights of the environment and is a specialised body for handling environmental disputes involving multidisciplinary issues
