SC raps pollution control boards: Yours is a story of complete failure

October 29, 2014 13:30

The Supreme Court has pulled up the Centre and state pollution control boards for not taking action against polluting industries functioning on
the banks of river Ganga. In a cutting indictment the SC said, "Yours is a story of complete failure, frustration and disaster." The SC also asks the National Green Tribunal to monitor and take action against all polluting industrial units on banks of river Ganga.

In August, the Supreme Court had reminded the Narendra Modi government that cleaning of the Ganga was on its poll manifesto, and asked why urgent steps were not being taken on it and set a two-week timeline for it to come up with a road map for making the 2500 km long river pollution free.

A bench headed by Justice T S Thakur said the issue of cleaning Ganga is very important and it has to be put on the front burner.

"Are you saving river Ganga? It was also there in your manifesto. Why don't you act on it," the bench asked, while referring to BJP's pre-poll promise to clean the river.

Read Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti's interview to Rediff.com.

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