Jayanthi Natarajan hauls up Mayawati for apathy towards rivers' clean-up in UP
TNN | Dec 23, 2011, 04.12AM IST
NEW DELHI: The UPA government launched another salvo at BSP supremo
Mayawati with the Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan
writing to the Uttar Pradesh CM pointing out that industries were
polluting select rivers in the state leading to contamination of
groundwater in some regions.
The minister also criticized the state government for not utilizing
Central funds properly to abate pollution in the water bodies. "In
last two years, the environment ministry has sanctioned several
projects for conservation of river Ganga and lakes like Ramgarh Tal at
Gorakhpur. Hundreds of crores have been released to Uttar Pradesh for
implementation of these projects. I hear that the state government has
not used the money properly," she said.
"Our efforts, to clean river Ganga that flows to important parts of UP
have not been able to succeed because of the indifference shown by the
state government with regard to pollution," she added.
Natarajan has asked the state government to direct her state pollution
control board to curb pollution, specifically in Aami River in
Gorakhpur.
She noted that effluent from industries in Gorakhpur industrial area
and untreated municipal solid waste was making its way unchecked into
the river and polluting the groundwater of villages in the vicinity.
The central pollution control board, which works under the environment
ministry, had found that the effluent treatment plants of the area
were not working and the waste of Gorakhpur too was being dumped in
Rapti river despite directions from the Centre against it.
In the last two years the environment ministry has sanctioned seven
projects at a total cost of Rs 1341.60 crore for conservation of Ganga
in Allahabad, Varanasi, Garhmukteshwar, Moradabad and Kannauj.
Of the sanctioned amount, Rs 204.20 crore has been released to the
state so far. Another Rs. 217.14 crore has been transferred to UP in
the last three years for implementation of ongoing sanctioned schemes
under the Gomti Action Plan and the Ganga Action Plan Phase-II.
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