Noida: The government continues to talk about lack of funds, but the pollution controller board has been collected around “RS 1,000 Crore” in punishment and “not one rupee” has been spent on environmental restoration, justice Sudhir Agarwal from NGT told a city event on Monday.
Agarwal Justice, who discussed the panel about creating awareness about preventing Riverine or sea litter in the ecosystem, making attitudes towards work or spending related to the environment, saying it is often considered “Faltu Ka Kharcha” (unnecessary costs).
“Even today, when we talk about work, schemes or costs related to the environment, we consider it as ‘Faltu Ka Kharcha’.
Oh, this will take a lot of costs.
Improve the air, the cost is too expensive.
Increasing water, the cost is too expensive.
, the cost is too expensive.
But how can we connect with sea pollution sitting in NCR? “He asked.
Asked whether there was a lack of funds for the work related to the environment, Justice Agarwal told TI later: “See …
more than RS 1,000 Crore is waiting.
This is the amount that has been collected by the pollution controller board (different) that we, on NGT , it has been collected as a penalty.
And this money has been collected so that it can be used for environmental recovery …
but there is no one rupee spent.
“According to RTI to Noida-based activists, CPCB said the government received more than RS 380 Crore in the penalty For violations of environmental norms between 2017 and October 2019.
While Rs 31.8 Crore and Rs 227.9 are accepted by the government in Indonesia 2017-18 and 2018-19, respectively, RS 122.2 Crore received the following year, the answer said.
At NGT, Justice Agarwal has heard some important cases such as pollution in Ganga, illegal mining of silica sand, and hospital shifts from residential areas, among others.
Asked about how to control the high level of pollution in Delhi-NCR, he advocated laws that prohibit more than two vehicles for each family.
He also said that only those who have their own parking space must be allowed to buy a car.
“Air pollution in NCR is a local construction problem, industry and vehicles.
All of this is closed during locking, which makes air purifiers.
So you have to control this.
One person who doesn’t have space for parking, you allow it to have four vehicles.
Why? Why? Why You don’t formulate the law that if you don’t have space for parking, you will not register a vehicle or you will not be allowed to buy a vehicle.
Secondly, why can’t we stop one family from having more than one or two cars? “He asked.
Agarwal justice insists that the implementation of soil surfaces from environmental laws does not occur.
“If someone produces Rs 100 by breaking the pollution norms and finally pays Rs.
10 as a penalty, how the difference is for him,” he asked.
Talking about pollution in the river, he said, “Expenditures for the environment are considered ‘Faaltu Ka Kharcha’.
At the bureaucratic level as well, the feeling reaches where he can be seen …
it is very difficult …
We don’t have infrastructure.”