A 100-metre area around the sides of Ganga between Haridwar and Unnao (Uttar Pradesh) will be a “no-construction, no-development zone”.
The National Green Tribunal ruled on Thursday while ordering a green compensation of Rs 50,000 on anyone dumping waste in the river.
In a 543-page judgment on advocate MC Mehta’s petition on Ganga pollution, the NGT also directed that no dumping or landfill could come up within 500 metres of the river or its tributaries.
The tribunal imposed a complete prohibition on disposing of municipal solid waste, electronic waste or bio-medical waste on the floodplains or into Ganga or its tributaries in the same stretch.
The bench, headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar, also directed that while diverting the water from Haridwar to the Ganga canal or elsewhere, the minimum environmental flow in the main river should not fall below 20% of the average monthly lean season flow.
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