Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued a lot of directions to the authorities to ensure the reduction in the level of the Sabarmati pollution through the right treatment of waste water.
It directs the commissioner of Municipal Ahmedabad to implement these steps.
The High Court also asked the Secretary of the Head to expand all cooperation and stay in touch with the Commissioner of the City in completing the task “with a view to making sincere efforts to bring some better and more positive results.” Justice J B B B B B B Pardiwala and Justice V D Navisati provides orders to clean and rejuvenate the river after taking the recognition of Suo Motu on the failure of the function of waste treatment plant (STP), from which water is treated directly fired into the river.
While the court has come based on a report equipped with a Joint Task Force (JTF) and Amicus Curiae, Advocate Hemang Shah.
HC has directed AHMedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to immediately identify unauthorized industrial waste water connections and say it is a must to achieve good results.
The court quoted JTF’s findings that the Mega pipeline, which took industrial waste from a general waste treatment plant (CETP) to the river, had several unauthorized waste connections and the AMC gutter line had illegal connections of industrial waste water disposal.
“We direct that identification and termination of all such illegal connections are carried out by guards / owners of their respective pipelines.
Actions and results must be distributed among stakeholders from time to time,” the court ordered.
The court also ordered all Cetps to ensure operational operations with connectivity to the Gujarat pollution control board portal.
They must list technical reasons for non-compliance.
The court has ordered the Civic body to ensure scientific operations of all STPS and to explore the treatment of in-situ waterways that carry waste to the river to make the right arrangement for waste water channel systems and STP.
The Civic body has been ordered to “sincerely explore” the provision of neutralization of wastewater received in STP to prevent interruption of STP biological treatment systems.
“It will also protect the river and plant machines.
This provision will be preventive.
Identification and checking illegal acid effluent discharge must be ensured through coordinated supervision,” said the court, directed AMC to carry out routine verification and strengthen sustainable online analysis for data reliability.
The court has posted a further hearing on this issue on December 3.
Gujarat High Court issued direction to curb pollution
