UP Pollution Control Board unaware about Gomti cleaning : RTI

UP Pollution Control Board unaware about Gomti cleaning : RTI

News18 | Gulam Jeelani | Wed Jan 28, 2015 | 10:35 IST

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#Lucknow #Uttar Pradesh The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board
(UPPCB) is unaware about any steps taken by the Centre or State to
clean the river Gomti, an RTI query by a 13-year-old Lucknow girl has
revealed.

Worse still, the pollution watchdog body doesn't even have any
information about the laws to keep a tab on people polluting the
river, the reply added.

In reply to a the queries regarding expenses (by Centre or State) on
Gomti river cleaning, in a Right to Information (RTI) application by
Aishwarya Parashar, 13, the UPPCB said that it had no knowledge about
the money spent. Instead it asked the young activist to get the
details from the state's department of urban development.

"Every one is talking about cleaning the river. But they don't event
know how much they have done so far," said Aishwarya, who shot to fame
a few years ago after her RTI plea forced authorities to remove
garbage outside her school in the state capital. Surprisingly, the
UPPCB officials also said that they did not have any information about
any laws or directives to stop people from dumping garbage (mostly
after prayers) in the river.
UP Pollution Control Board unaware about Gomti cleaning : RTI

The apathy doesn't stop here. The board took one year and three months
to come up with the reply to the RTI plea while the RTI Act mandates
the reply should come within 30 days. The plea was filed by Aishwarya
is October 2013.

Notably, the government had, of late, taken many initiatives for
cleaning Gomti. State chief secretary, Alok Ranjan had directed
diversion of all nullahs to sewage treatment plant and ban on
discharge of effluents directly into the river.

Even Lucknow's district magistrate Raj Shekhar had cleaned the river
himself regularly with teams of NGOs and had released some funds for
the cleaning of the river.

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-Sincerely Yours,

Urvashi Sharma
Secretary - YAISHWARYAJ SEVA SANSTHAAN
101,Narayan Tower, Opposite F block Idgah
Rajajipuram,Lucknow-226017,Uttar Pradesh,India
Contact 9369613513
Right to Information Helpline 8081898081
Helpline Against Corruption 9455553838


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