That's spirit. If the citizens as groups protest, it will get done. The key of
course is follow-up.
Dilip
mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Those who care for Guahati's health and IMAGE ought to force their
non-government to get the permanent structures at Bharalu bed-- demolished this
winter--NOW!-- and reduce the city foods down by at least 1.5 m.
And force these Govts - by LAW/BYLAW -all families/groups/municipal
Corporation to employ my Simple /Inexpensive/low-energy-consuming
ElectroCoagulating fecal-contaminant separators at the point of exit from
theirsinto Public Domain Bharalu.
And to those living downstreams- recipients of Guahati Shit- all the way to
Sea- I say "Initiate Legal action to effect this" NOW!
For this The Co-RESPONDENT should be Ministry of Environment and Forests(no
trees inside) GOVT Of India- maybe through the UNICEF/WHO/Pachauri-led IPCC.
mm
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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:12:46 +0000
Subject: [WaterWatch] Permanent structures on Yamuna riverbed to be demolished
Permanent structures on Yamuna riverbed to be demolished
The Yamuna (removal of encroachments) Monitoring Committee has sought
demolition of all permanent structures erected in the Yamuna riverbed
by the Delhi Development Authority and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
In a report submitted on 30th October, 2007 to Delhi High Court,
retired additional district and sessions judge S.M. Aggarwal, the
convenor of the committee, has also sought that DDA and DMRC should be
penalised for damaging the river's eco-system by undertaking
construction of the massive Metro rail yard, a residential complex in
1.85 acres of the river bed, a huge Games Village Metro station along
with a mall by Parsvanath Developers and the Commonwealth Games Village.
Delhi High Court had appointed a committee on December 8, 2005, headed
by retired Justice Usha Mehra, to enforce the orders passed in this
regard by the High Court since 2003. The Yamuna -- Removal of
Encroachments Monitoring Committee, as it came to be known, was meant
to monitor the removal of encroachments on the river bed and flood
plains, specifically within 300 metres of the river banks.
On March 3, 2003, the Delhi High Court had observed: "Yamuna river has
been polluted not only on account of dumping of waste, including
medical waste as well as discharge of unhygienic material, but the
Yamuna bed and its embankment have been unauthorisedly and illegally
encroached by construction of pucca house, jhuggies and places for
religious worship, which cannot be permitted any more... We,
therefore, direct all the authorities concerned, that is, DDA, MCD,
PWD, DJB as well the Central Government to forthwith remove all the
unauthorised structures, jhuggi es, places of worship and/or any other
structure which are unauthorisedly put in Yamuna bed and its
embankment within two months from today."
This order was flouted for over two years by the concerned
authorities, provoking a Division Bench, headed by the then Chief
Justice, to rule that the river bed was a water body (wet land) and
had to be preserved as such. Here is the relevant excerpt.
"...it is required to be maintained as a water body by the DDA and all
other authorities. If the water body is not maintained as such and
construction illegally goes on unhindered, then it is high time to
take the officers of the DDA to task." As per the court directive, all
encroachments on the river bed were to be removed by the DDA and other
empowered agencies. But, the follow-up remained tardy.
The report has also recommended exemplary action against the Vice
Chairman of DDA for deliberate and willful violation of Delhi High
Court order directing that the river bed be maintained as a water body
or wetland by the DDA and all other authorities.
The environmental activists have sought immediate stay on construction
in the Yamuna river bed and arguments on this count will be heard on
November 20.
The committee submitted the report in the court of Justice A.K. Sikri
and Justice Rekha Sharma.
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