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After slapping a good of ₹28.75 crore successful 2021 connected Tirunelveli Corporation for discharging respective lakh litres of untreated sewage into the Tamirabharani each day, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has sent 1 much amusement origin notice, asking the civic assemblage wherefore ₹1.55 crore should not beryllium imposed for discharging sewage into the perennial river.
As the Corporation is yet to implicit the 2nd and 3rd phases of its underground drainage (UGD) projects, respective lakh litres of untreated sewage generated by households, commercialized establishments and industries wrong the metropolis limits is flowing into the Tamirabharani, the drinking h2o root for respective cardinal radical successful Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, Thoothukudi, Virudhunagar and Ramanathapuram districts.
Even though much than 240 filtration wells person been sunk successful the stream nether assorted drinking h2o schemes, nary of the section bodies getting benefited from them, including Tirunelveli Corporation, takes immoderate steps to halt polluting the river.
Only aft cases were filed against the civic bodies successful the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court and the National Green Tribunal, the TNPCB warned the Tirunelveli Corporation of ‘serious action’ for not incorporating immoderate measurement to cheque the travel of sewage into the river.
The impermanent measures taken by the Corporation similar mounting up filtration ponds for treating sewage became wasteful expenditure.
The TNPCB subsequently recommended to the higher-ups successful 2021 that ₹28.75- crore good should beryllium slapped connected the Corporation arsenic biology compensation, which is yet to beryllium collected.
Meanwhile, the Corporation promised the NGT that it would implicit the UGD task by July 2023 to permanently forestall the travel of untreated sewage into the river. As the UGD strategy is apt to beryllium commissioned lone successful the 3rd 4th of 2026, sewage travel into the Tamirabharnai inactive continues.
Now, the TNPCB has sent different amusement origin notice, asking the Corporation wherefore an further good of ₹1.55 crore should not beryllium levied arsenic ‘environmental compensation’ for the play betwixt January 1, 2023, and July 31, 2025.
In a reply to societal activistic and advocator S.P. Muthuraman, who has filed a bid of cases against the stream contamination successful the HC and the NGT and urged the TNPCB to enforce a good connected the Corporation, D.M. Krishna Babu, District Environmental Engineer, TNPCB, Tirunelveli, said this further ‘environmental compensation’ of ₹1.55 crore had been mooted on with the compensation mentioned successful the erstwhile amusement origin notice.
