The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal has recorded its disappointment over the attitude of the Kerala government in not fixing accountability for the continuing gaps in the management of solid and liquid waste generated in the State daily.
The Bench led by its chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel, and comprising judicial member Sudhir Agarwal and expert member Prof. A. Senthil Vel asked how the rule of law will be achieved, if the State assumes that no one is responsible for such gross violations of law and directions of the Supreme Court and the tribunal.
“Even after three years, neither there is adequate compliance nor the same projected in immediate future. No accountability no performance audit, no entries in ACRs [Annual Confidential Reports of officials responsible],” it said in the latest order in the case related to the non-compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 and other environmental issues in the State.
