NGT MAKING HARYANA, PUNJAB AND THE HP GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE TO FOLLOW ENVOIRNMENT PROTECTION RULES 1986 AND FOLLOW STANDARD FOR EMISSION POLLUTANTS.

The National Green Tribunal had directed both the UT Chandigarh and the MC to follow hundred percent sewage treatment otherwise be ready to pay envoirnmental compensation. In this behalf during August 2018 the NGT had already directed the Chief Secretaries of the Haryana, government of Himachal and Punjab as well Chandigarh to constitute a special task force (STF) required to clean the river Ghaggar and thereafter the NGT committee working in Chandigarh along with CPCC visited various points of the Sukhna Chao in UT and observed the level of water pollution there .In its earlier order the NGT has stated that the envoirnment protection Rules 1986provide for standards for the emission of pollutants and for different rivers the standards are laid down in schedule 1 and the findings of the joint inspection report are related to its parameters concerning to BOD, Total suspended solids,faecal coliform lead and iron were found beyond the permissible limits at most of the locations in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh as such there is a failure on the part of the statutory authorities, especially the pollution control boards in performing their duties Under the statutory Programme the boards are required to prosecute all those who may be responsible for discharging effluents beyond standard and also to close all such commercial establishments as failed to uphold the rule of law code manual prefixed by the government,it is high time that their composition is considered by the higher authorities and their accountability fixed by taking cognizance of the law code manual under violation of the civil and Criminal action as responsible for failure in taking action against the defaulters.