Rainwater Ludhiana Harvesting: The Board of Engineering (COE) has submitted a petition before the National Green Tribunal (NGT), accused of violating severely on the required provisions of the Punjab model to provide harvest harvesting and public wells in buildings and places as a private unit.
The Punjab government (through the Secretary of the Chief), the principal secretary of the Regional Government and Housing and Urban, MC, Lit and Gladin, respondents have been made in this matter.
Looking for the monitoring committee constitution for the installation of rainwater harvesting and refill wells in technical and scientific ways by MC, Lit and Glada, the applicant submitted a proposal to harvesting public rainwater by making a roof tissue in old buildings.
Kapil Arora, President Coe, said the rainwater harvest was mandatory for private buildings built by more than 100 square meters and all commercial and industrial buildings.
However, officials from the three development authorities, MC, Lit and Gladada openly limit their role and duties to collect security deposits that can be returned at the time of approval for development plans because they do not verify the compliance of mandatory installations.
Other board members Kulwant Singh Rai said the extraction of ground water in Punjab has increased from 149% (from naturally available refills) in 2013 to 165% in 2018.
“This is a serious problem because the thinning of groundwater will affect the river flow and river flow , disrupting the ecosystem of the waters and global food security.
Ludhiana receives an average rainfall of 680mm in a year and with scientific installation of the harvesting system, around 50% of the water used for domestic consumption can be recharged, “he said.
Frame In addition to private buildings, open spaces and recreational land can be used for their purposes, but the system is lost in all MC and Lit office buildings.
Other members, Mohit Jain, said thousands of illegal buildings and colonies have emerged in Ludhiana where the storm water drainage and rainwater harvesting has not been provided, resulting in puddles, which suffer damage, which causes exploitation of resources such as aggregate, bitumen.
and fuel.
Body upgraded, said bylaws ignored
