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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) to hole the situation compensation connected those liable for the contamination of Kadambrayar successful Ernakulam.
The Southern Bench of the tribunal, comprising Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana, Judicial Member, and Prashant Gargava, Expert Member, issued an bid connected February 19, 2026, asking the committee to measure the biology compensation payable by the violators. The Bench besides directed the committee to guarantee compliance with the enactment taken study submitted by the Local Self-Government section (LSGD) regarding the contamination of the river.
The biology compensation volition beryllium fixed based connected the ‘polluter pays principle’. The committee has to enactment retired the magnitude based connected the discarded generated by the violators. The LSGD had submitted a study earlier the tribunal stating that the unauthorised discharge of wastewater from concern units, flat complexes, hotels, and amerciable pipelines into the Kadambrayar successful Ernakulam had been identified successful a survey carried retired by the section bodies sharing the banks of the waterbody.
The committee had inspected commercialized establishments, concern units, flat complexes, and residential units to cheque whether untreated wastewater had been discharged into the Kadambrayar. It recovered that the erring units lacked capable facilities, including sewage attraction plants arsenic per the norms, to guarantee due attraction of wastewater.
