The National Green Tribunal pulled up the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) for failing to take action against polluters.
Responsibilities, duties
It summoned DPCC Chairman and observed that it was not merely a “supervisory body” and the pollution committee is required to take necessary steps.
A Bench headed by NGT judicial member Justice Raghuvendra S. Rathore said: “It is high time that the DPCC should realise its responsibilities and duties in accordance to the relevant law and to take prompt steps to do the needful, whenever anything is known to have been done, violative of environmental law.” While directing the Chairman to be present before the tribunal on September 13, the Bench, also comprising expert member Satyawan Singh Garbyal said, “Even if any other department is required to do a work, it is the responsibility of the DPCC to have it done immediately. Merely issuance of notice is no redressal of the grievance raised by the public.”
Pollution by ragpickers
The directions came when the panel was hearing a petition moved by the residents’ welfare association of the Madipur village who alleged pollution caused by ragpickers who sort solid waste including plastic.