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The Rajasthan High Court connected Friday (June 5, 2026) took suo motu cognisance of media reports highlighting pollution, encroachments and different threats to lakes and h2o bodies successful Udaipur.
A Division Bench comprising Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati and Justice Rekha Borana, observed that Udaipur occupies a unsocial presumption successful Rajasthan’s biology landscape.
The Bench noted that the city’s lakes and h2o bodies signifier an integral portion of its biology and taste practice and execute captious functions relating to groundwater recharge, h2o security, biodiversity conservation, flood moderation, clime resilience and the attraction of ecological balance.
Emphasising the law close of aboriginal generations to a cleanable and steadfast environment, the Court observed that h2o bodies play a important relation successful regulating section climatic conditions and importantly lend to municipality biology health.
The Court noted that Article 21 of the Constitution, arsenic interpreted by the Supreme Court, encompasses the close to a cleanable and steadfast environment. It further observed that Article 48A casts a work connected the State to support and amended the situation and safeguard forests, lakes, rivers and wildlife, portion Article 51A(g) recognises the work of each national to support and amended the earthy environment.
The Bench besides referred to the Public Trust Doctrine, nether which earthy resources of captious nationalist value are held by the State successful spot for the payment of the nationalist and aboriginal generations and cannot beryllium allowed to endure degradation done inaction oregon unsustainable use.
The Bench noted that expanding urbanisation, unregulated improvement and encroachments person emerged arsenic important challenges affecting municipality h2o bodies crossed the country.
The Court took enactment of reports published successful the Udaipur variation of Rajasthan Patrika, which raised concerns regarding alleged encroachments connected h2o bodies, unresolved disputes concerning water boundaries and continuous operation activities astir specified areas.
Considering the issues raised, the Court invoked its suo motu jurisdiction successful the larger nationalist involvement to guarantee the effectual protection, preservation and sustainable absorption of lakes, h2o bodies, canals and associated ecological systems successful Udaipur.
The Court directed the acrophobic departments and authorities to taxable a consolidated report. The substance has been listed for further proceeding connected July 13.
