Submit list of industries generating effluents: NGT to UPPCB

The National Green Tribunal today directed Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to submit a list of industries generating toxic effluents in six western districts of the state.
A bench, headed by Justice U D Salvi, also directed UPPCB to analyse the chemical composition of the effluents generated by each industry in districts of Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Samli, Meerut, Bagpath and Ghaziabad.
The Tribunal was hearing a petition filed by NGO Doaba Paryavaran Samiti which has alleged that ground water was being polluted in six districts as a result of effluents being released underground by reverse boring by the industries.
"In the meanwhile, considering the nature of allegations made, we expect UPPCB to place before us the list of industries generating effluents in the said districts. UPPCB shall also place before us the chemical composition of the effluents generated by each industry," the bench said.

The matter is listed for next hearing on August 28.
The Tribunal had earlier directed Uttar Pradesh government to immediately provide clean drinking water in these districts of the state through water tankers.
"Alkalinity in water seems to be more than permissible limit. You have to check and analyse the situation there," the bench had said.
The plea, filed through advocate Gaurav Kumar Bansal, had alleged negligence on the part of the state government and said that villagers and children of schools in the six districts were forced to drink contaminated water.