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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court connected Thursday directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to instrumentality enactment against Madurai Corporation arsenic per Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. The tribunal was proceeding a nationalist involvement litigation petition that had sought a absorption to the authorities to reconstruct Kiruthumal river.
A Division Bench of Justices G. R. Swaminathan and B. Pugalendhi directed the TNPCB to instrumentality enactment against Madurai Corporation arsenic per Section 48 of the Act that deals with offences by authorities departments. Earlier, the State authorities had told the tribunal that the causes of contamination of Kiruthumal stream would beryllium identified and communicated to the section bodies acrophobic for taking indispensable action.
The tribunal proceeding the petition filed by advocator R. Manibharathi of Madurai. The petitioner complained that Kiruthumal river, erstwhile worshipped, is present neglected and successful a deplorable state. The stream flows for astir a region of 74 km done Madurai, Sivaganga, Virudhunagar and Ramanathapuram districts. The stream successful Madurai metropolis has shrunk owed to deficiency of due maintenance, helium said.
The petitioner said the stream has been turned into a dump yard, starring to contamination and mosquito menace. He urged the authorities acrophobic to instrumentality contiguous steps to revive the stream by removing encroachments, forestall discharge of sewage and dumping of garbage, and guarantee that Kiruthumal stream receives h2o done Vaigai stream and its capable channels.
He sought a absorption to the authorities to transportation retired a integer survey of the stream by utilizing Differential Global Positioning System to representation the stream and region encroachments, forestall discharge of sewage and dumping of garbage into the river, connected a warfare footing, and guarantee that capable h2o was released from Vaigai stream to Kiruthumal river.
He besides sought a absorption to the authorities to survey the stream which flows from Madurai territory to Ramanathapuram district. The tribunal had earlier directed the State to record a broad study to the petition.
