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The Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) connected Monday took suo motu cognisance of a heavy furniture of foam that covered Pattinapakkam formation connected October 22.
The Bench, comprising Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana and adept subordinate Prashant Gargava, initiated proceedings based connected media reports connected the incident. Justice Sathyanarayana noted that arsenic per quality reports, during earlier occurrences, investigations by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) recovered that phosphate concentrations were recovered to beryllium importantly high.
The lasting counsel for the Tamil Nadu authorities informed the Bench that specified incidents were not regular and did not hap aft each rainfall. However, Justice Sathyanarayana stressed that the substance warranted attraction adjacent if it occurred sporadically.
The counsel for the TNPCB identified sewage discharge arsenic the larger underlying contented contributing to foam formation. The Bench besides observed that respective photographs circulating online showed residents and children playing successful the foam, indicating a deficiency of nationalist consciousness of its imaginable wellness risks and ecological impact.
The Bench added that the State government, Water Resources Department, TNPCB, Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, and Greater Chennai Corporation arsenic respondents, and directed them to taxable their reports earlier January 19.
