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RE: NEWS ITEM PUBLISHED IN HINDUSTAN TIMES TITLES `AND QUIET FLOWS THE MAILY YAMUNA'.

País/Territorio
India
Tipo de la corte
Nacional - corte superior
Fecha
Feb 27, 2012
Fuente
UNEP, InforMEA
Nombre del tribunal
Supreme Court of India
Sede de la corte
New Delhi
Juez
Patnaik, A.K
Kumar, S.
Idioma
Inglés
Materia
Agua, Medio ambiente gen.
Palabra clave
Normas sobre calidad del agua Calidad de las aguas dulces/contaminación de las aguas dulces
Resumen
The apex court had asked the Centre and the governments of Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh to furnish information on expenditure incurred by them for making the Yamuna clean.

It had asked the Central Water Pollution Control Board to take sample of water of river Yamuna and submit a report on its cleanliness.

"The Central Water Pollution Control Board shall take samples of water of river Yamuna from the states of Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh till Agra and submit their report within four weeks," the bench had said.

It directed all the authorities related to the work of controlling the river's pollution to give details of the steps taken by them in this regard. The court had issued the direction taking suo motu cognisance of an article on pollution in Yamuna published in a national daily in 1994.