NGT seeks action-taken report on Narela, Bawana industrial units

Responsibility of compliance is of DPCC: tribunal Bench

May 29, 2019 01:51 am | Updated 01:52 am IST - NEW DELHI

New Delhi : National Green Tribunal (NGT) Office, Faridkot House, in New Delhi on Thursday. July 13, 2017. 
Photo: Shanker Chakravarty

New Delhi : National Green Tribunal (NGT) Office, Faridkot House, in New Delhi on Thursday. July 13, 2017. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to furnish an action-taken report on the recovery of compensation from polluting plastic units in Narela and Bawana industrial areas.

Following a report submitted by an NGT-appointed committee that pointed to “open dumping of waste and its burning,” a Bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel directed authorities to submit an action-taken report.

“Let a further action-taken report in the matter of actual closure of the defaulting units and recovery of compensation as assessed be filed. The DPCC is free to take assistance of an agency as per law but the responsibility of compliance is of the DPCC itself,” the Bench said.

An October 2018 report submitted by a joint committee comprising of representatives from the Central Pollution Control Board and the DPCC had indicated that drains in the area were choked due to open dumping.

“…in the absence of collection of waste generated by industries, untreated waste water from industries being directly discharged into the drains in Narela as well as Bawana industrial areas,” the report said.

The committee further informed the tribunal that compensation was recovered from various units while some which failed to pay the amount was issued closure orders.

An affidavit filed in May said that a policy for recovery of compensation was framed and the SDM was asked to recover damages as arrears of the land revenue.

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