Plastic ban, Penalty of Rs 5,000 per day
Dec 11th, 2015
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Plastic ban, Penalty of Rs 5,000 per day
New Delhi,11 December: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slapped a penalty of Rs 5,000 per day on erring hotels, dharamshalas and ashrams which are situated from Gomukh to Haridwar for spewing waste into the river.There will be a complete ban on the use of plastic of any kind along Ganga with effect from February 1. The green panel divided the cleaning work of Ganga into different segments —Gomukh to Haridwar, Haridwar to Kanpur, Kanpur to border of Uttar Pradesh, border of Uttar Pradesh to border of Jharkhand and border of Jharkhand to Bay of Bengal.There shall be complete prohibition on use of plastic i.e plastic carry bags/plastic plates, glasses, spoons, packages and allied items.Besides the plastic ban, the Tribunal also prohibited throwing of any municipal waste, construction and demolition wastes into Ganga and its tributaries while announcing that violators will have to pay an environmental compensation at the rate of Rs 5,000 per incident. The Tribunal passed a slew of directions to keep the river pollution free. It held that if any hotel, dharamshala or ashram releases their domestic waste and sewage into Ganga or its tributaries then “it shall be liable to pay environmental compensation for causing pollution of the river at the rate of Rs 5,000 per day”.
