AGRA: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a committee comprising Mathura district magistratea UP Pollution Control Board officer and district forest officer to ascertain factual position over allegations of reckless and excessive concretization in the area of Banke Bihari colony along with Yamuna Parikrama Marg in the city of Vrindavan.
The tribunal said the state PCB will be the nodal agency for coordination and compliance. “The joint committee may meet within four weeks and undertake site visit and look into the grievance of the applicant,” the NGT . The matter was listed for consideration on July 13.
The petition stated that such concretization in Vrindavan is in violation of the NGT’s 2013 order following which a policy against concretization was framed and subsequently, a Government Order to the effect was issued.
Earlier in June 2020, environmentalist Akash Vashishtha had written to the secretary of ministry of environment, forest and climate change saying, “unbridled concretization of soil and soft urban landscapes continue to take place unabated”. He had cited the Action Plan for Flood Proofing of Cities/Towns, and said inappropriate concretization in urban areas, was one of the primary and biggest causes of increased run-off and water logging/flooding during rains.
The tribunal said the state PCB will be the nodal agency for coordination and compliance. “The joint committee may meet within four weeks and undertake site visit and look into the grievance of the applicant,” the NGT . The matter was listed for consideration on July 13.
The petition stated that such concretization in Vrindavan is in violation of the NGT’s 2013 order following which a policy against concretization was framed and subsequently, a Government Order to the effect was issued.
Earlier in June 2020, environmentalist Akash Vashishtha had written to the secretary of ministry of environment, forest and climate change saying, “unbridled concretization of soil and soft urban landscapes continue to take place unabated”. He had cited the Action Plan for Flood Proofing of Cities/Towns, and said inappropriate concretization in urban areas, was one of the primary and biggest causes of increased run-off and water logging/flooding during rains.