Vrindavan / New Delhi, 2016.12.20 (VT): The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday maintained its stay order on all sorts of construction activity in the Yamuna riverbed in Vrindavan, till the next hearing on February 6.
The Tribunal also directed all respondents to file their replies by the next date of hearing. The UP government has only filed its reply in the matter.Image may be NSFW.
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The NGT had issued notices to the ministry of environment, forests and climate change, the Union ministry of Water Resources, several UP government agencies and the Archeological Survey of India on a petition alleging illegal construction on the Yamuna bed by the UP Irrigation Department, in the name of the River Front Development.
The Green Court had earlier imposed a stay on the project in Yamuna River bed, on November 30. Petitioner Akash Vashishth, the coordinator of the Alliance for Culture and Ecology, in his plea said the government agencies, instead of complying with the earlier orders of the tribunal which sought demolitions of illegal structures inside the river floodplain, had gone ahead and brazenly started construction in violation of norms. The execution of the project has forced Yamuna to change its course and the Yamuna permanently left its favorite Ghats, having heritage value.
It should be noted that a separate litigation is also pending in the Allahabad High Court, which will hear the case on March 27th, 2017. The High Court has also maintained its interim order of banning the laying of sewerage pipe line in the river bed. Shri Madhumangal Shukla is the petitioner in Allahabad High Court in this case; who has highlighted that Vrindavan’s riverside architecture, in form of the ancient Ghats, is one of the best in the country. There was no sense of building new Ghats, in front of the existing live Ghats.
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