The National Green Tribunal (NGT) earlier this week issued a notice to the commissioner of the Varanasi Municipal Corporation and the Panchayati Raj officer of Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh regarding complaints of discharge of domestic and untreated industrial wastewater into the Ganga river.
The notice was issued by the Bench of Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava while hearing the petition filed in the green court regarding the discharge of wastewater into the Ganga river at various places in Varanasi.
The NGT, in May 2022, had constituted a committee headed by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to look into the complaint and submit a report.
