NGT constitutes separate waste management body for UP
Updated: Oct 16, 2018 08:25:30am
NGT constitutes separate waste management body for UP
New Delhi, Oct 16 (KNN) National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a separate waste management body for Uttar Pradesh observing that the state already has a large number of local bodies there.
A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said that the order excludes implementation of the rules in Delhi as the matter is being heard by the Supreme Court.
While constituting a committee to be headed by former Allahabad High Court judge, Justice Devi Prasad Singh, the Bench said, “Considering the fact that Uttar Pradesh has a large number of local bodies, it will be appropriate that a separate committee is constituted for the State.”
The bench said that Order dated August 20 is modified to the extent that the scope of the committee constituted earlier for the North Zone will be restricted to Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
Uttar Pradesh has now been excluded from the committee rules that has been constituted earlier for North Zone with regard to Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules. Now, the state has its own separate body for monitoring solid waste management.
The green panel further said that the committees will ensure implementation of plastic waste management, construction and demolition waste and bio-medical waste rules.
To take stock of the progress with regard to implementation of rules, in August 2018, the bench had constituted apex and regional monitoring committees.
Besides, bench observed that the most of the sates have not taken into account the incremental growth in the waste generation in the cities which are growing exponentially.
This will only add to the waste dumps, which have already assumed alarming proportions, bench added.