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Why NGT’s calls on restoration of water bodies is need of the hour -Sushmita Sengupta

-Down to Earth

National Green Tribunal’s 2019 order asking states to identify, protect and restore water bodies underlines the urgency to save them

The nationwide lockdown imposed to break the spread of the novel coronavirus disease spread in India brought into light a new, pleasant discovery — improvement in quality of several water bodies and their catchments as a host of industrial activities halted.

There is a need to restore and create more such water bodies for water security. The recent National Green Tribunal (NGT) order showed that the green court has identified that this was the need of the hour and that water bodies needed to be saved on a war footing.

Following a plea filed in 2015 to save water bodies in Haryana’s Gurugram district, the green tribunal in 2019 passed an order asking states to identify, protect and restore the water bodies. The states were asked to file status reports to the Central Pollution Controlled Board (CPCB).

But the states failed to do so. In February 2020, they were asked, again, by the green court to submit the status report by March 31, 2020. The court verdict said the chief secretaries of the states / Union Territories would have to pay Rs 1 lakh per month till the information was filed.

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