Lucknow: The National Green Tribunal today directed Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam to seal forthwith all those hand pumps which are releasing contaminated ground water in six districts of Western Uttar Pradesh, observing that it is the fundamental duty of the state government to look after the health and environment of villagers.
"We direct that Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam to forthwith seal the hand pumps of all Western UP districts which are releasing contaminated ground water," a bench headed by NGT chairperson Swatanter Kumar said.
The panel was hearing a petition filed by NGO Doaba Paryavaran Samiti head C V Singh, a retired scientist of Haryana Pollution Control Board, who has alleged that due to the consumption of contaminated ground water more than 50 villagers have died in Western UP of cancer.
It was alleged by the petitioner that ground water in Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Meerut, Bagpath and Ghaziabad districts was being polluted as a result of effluents being released underground by reverse boring by the industries.
The panel then directed the state government and its officials to provide potable drinking water to the villagers of the six districts through the vehicles which must have installed GPS system.
The panel said that the committee shall find a mechanism and a scheme to save the ground water in these villages and to submit the same within three months.
"We direct that Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam to forthwith seal the hand pumps of all Western UP districts which are releasing contaminated ground water," a bench headed by NGT chairperson Swatanter Kumar said.
The panel was hearing a petition filed by NGO Doaba Paryavaran Samiti head C V Singh, a retired scientist of Haryana Pollution Control Board, who has alleged that due to the consumption of contaminated ground water more than 50 villagers have died in Western UP of cancer.
It was alleged by the petitioner that ground water in Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Meerut, Bagpath and Ghaziabad districts was being polluted as a result of effluents being released underground by reverse boring by the industries.
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The panel then directed the state government and its officials to provide potable drinking water to the villagers of the six districts through the vehicles which must have installed GPS system.
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The panel said that the committee shall find a mechanism and a scheme to save the ground water in these villages and to submit the same within three months.
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