BackNGT issues directions to control pollution in Yamuna
National Green Tribunal approves installation of CCTVs, deployment of a special force on Yamuna floodplains to deal with dumping of waste in river
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New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has approved the installation of closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) and deployment of a special force on the Yamuna floodplains to deal with dumping of waste in the already polluted river.
The tribunal asked chief secretaries of five states—Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand—to meet and discuss ways to raise the minimum flow of the Yamuna.
The decisions came on cases filed by environmentalist Manoj Misra, who is the convener of the Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan, an organization that has been working to clean and revitalize the Yamuna river for nearly a decade.
The green tribunal, in a January ruling, had directed that anyone found polluting the Yamuna by throwing material, including religious items, into the river be fined ₹ 5,000, rising to ₹ 50,000 for those dumping construction waste into the waters.
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