NGT Orders Closure Of Industries Located In Residential Areas In Delhi

28 March, New Delhi

National Green Tribunal has ordered closure of industries located in residential areas in Delhi within a month for discharging untreated toxic waste in drains leading to Yamuna.

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swantanter Kumar on Friday said the Delhi government’s decision that there should be no polluting industries in the residential areas is in consonance with law.

He said, all such industries which are operating in residential areas are violating the prescribed user under the Master Plan and more seriously present a very pertinent and prominent source of pollution of the drains.

They discharge their effluents into the drains without any treatment and majority of them are operating even without the consent of the board.

The tribunal also directed Delhi Pollution Control Committee and Central Pollution Control Board to submit a report regarding the effluent quality from all the 13 Common Effluent Treatment Plants in Delhi.