{"id":339678,"date":"2022-09-24T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T07:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=339678"},"modified":"2022-09-24T03:55:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:25:09","slug":"national-green-tribunal-slaps-rs-2000-crore-fine-on-punjab-for-failure-to-treat-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/national-green-tribunal-slaps-rs-2000-crore-fine-on-punjab-for-failure-to-treat-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"National Green Tribunal slaps Rs 2,000 crore fine on Punjab for failure to treat waste"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Delhi : National Green Tribunal has imposed a penalty of over Rs 2,000 crore on the Punjab government for its failure to treat solid and liquid waste, leading to a huge gap in their generation and treatment.<\/p>\n

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice AK Goel said corrective action could not wait for an indefinite period and health issues could not be deferred for long.<\/p>\n

\u201cResponsibility of the state is to have a comprehensive plan to control pollution which is its absolute liability, which is not being understood.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is deficit in budgetary allocations, it is for the state and the state alone to have suitable planning by reducing cost or augmenting resources,\u201d the bench said.<\/p>\n

It said the compliance of environmental norms on the subject of waste management had to be high on priority.<\/p>\n

According to the NGT, the total compensation is rounded off at Rs 2,180 crore.<\/p>\n

Out of this, the Punjab government has already deposited with the tribunal Rs 100 crore for its failure to prevent discharge of untreated sewage and solid waste.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe remaining amount of Rs 2,080 crore may be deposited by the state of Punjab in a separate ring-fenced account within two months,\u201d the bench said.<\/p>\n

The NGT is monitoring compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, and other environmental issues by states and Union territories.<\/p>\n

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New Delhi : National Green Tribunal has imposed a penalty of over Rs 2,000 crore on the Punjab government for its failure to treat solid and liquid waste, leading to a huge gap in their generation and treatment. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice AK Goel said corrective action could not wait for an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":339677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2014],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339679,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339678\/revisions\/339679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/339677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}