NGT pulls up DDA for allowing Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's fest on Yamuna banks

March 03, 2016 11:57

JUST IN: NGT pulls up Delhi Development Authority for granting permission to hold Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's World Culture Festival on Yamuna banks.

DDA tells NGT that they didn't know about the size and scale of the event when the permission was granted.

The Art of Living, headed by spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, is organising world cultural festival in the national capital between March 11 and 13 that is expected to be attended by at least 35 lakh people from 155 countries.

Sanjay Parikh, counsel for the petitioners, told NGT that DDA should also be fined in the case as the permission granted by the central government's agency to Art of Living, the organising body of the event, is illegal.

"All the three committees formed on the issue in their reports have insisted that environment laws have been violated by the event organisers. Even the DDA in its order passed on December 15, 2015 has violated the norms. So the quantum of punishment for them should be the same as that of organisers of Art of Living," co-petitioner and environmental activist Ritwick Dutta said on Wednesday.

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