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NGT forms panel to inspect major waste generators in Delhi
Source: Millennium Post, Date: , 2017
Millennium Post, New Delhi, Jan 2017: The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday
constituted a committee to inspect major waste generators in the national
capital including 5-star hotels, malls, hospitals, educational institutions
with hostels and housing societies. Noting that the problem of waste generation
is being faced by the entire country and urgent steps were needed to be taken
without “demur and default”, the green panel directed the Delhi government to
provide a list of all such establishments to be inspected by the committee
within one week from Tuesday. “In the event such establishments are found to be
non-compliant, notice will be given to them as to why they be not directed to
pay environmental compensation and also remedying and rectifying deficiency and
defects,” a Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar said. The
green body noted that Delhi generates nearly 14,100 metric tonnes of municipal
solid waste per day and said that the mass generators of waste cannot be
equated to a simple household generating trash. It expressed concern that
public authorities were lacking infrastructure and appropriate technical
capacity to handle such huge quantity of waste.
Read More: http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=351702
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