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Court for panel on water bodies

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said it would put in place a permanent mechanism by setting up a committee headed by a retired High Court judge to take care of water bodies and rainwater harvesting in the Capital.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice T. S. Thakur and Justice S. N. Aggarwal passed the directive while hearing a public interest litigation by Vinod Kumar Jain, chairman of the non-government organisation Tapas, seeking augmentation of water resources in the Capital.

Counsel for the Delhi Development Authority, Delhi Government, Delhi Jal Board, Public Works Department and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi assured the Court that their clients would extend full cooperation to the committee.

The Bench ordered that all the public agencies concerned would carry out directives issued by the committee and any violation would be construed as contempt of court.

Earlier, a three-member committee set up by the Court submitted a report stating that as many as 29 water bodies, including the Sanjay Lake on National Highway-24 in East Delhi, had been turned into cesspools.

The committee urged the Court to direct the DDA to develop a water harvesting system in each water body.

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