NGT forms panel for remedial action on UP rivulet pollution

NGT forms panel for remedial action on UP rivulet pollution

• The National Green Tribunal has formed a committee to assess the ground situation and take remedial action regarding the pollution of a rivulet in Uttar Pradesh connected to the Rapti River. The Rapti river is a part of the Ganga River basin.
• The tribunal was hearing petitions which claimed two sugar mills in the Balrampur district of the state were discharging untreated industrial effluents into a stormwater drain which was then released into the Suwaon Nala, a rain-fed rivulet, connected to the Rapti River.
• “We direct a joint Committee of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), state pollution control board (PCB) and District Magistrate, Balrampur, with the state PCB acting as the nodal agency, to ascertain the factual position and take remedial action by the law,” a bench headed by Chairperson Justice AK Goel said in an order passed on December 23.

India-assisted Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project Handed Over to Bhutan’s Druk Green Power Corp

• India-assisted 720 Megawatts Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Power Project has been recently handed to Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) in Bhutan. 
• With this project, India and Bhutan have completed four mega hydroelectric power projects. The commissioning of the project has increased Bhutan’s Electrical Power Generation Capacity by 44 per cent.
• The 720 MW project Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Power Project was jointly inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bhutanese counterpart Lotay Tshering in 2019. 
• The commissioning of the project has increased Bhutan’s Electrical Power Generation Capacity by 44 per cent and it is now at 2,326 Mega Watts. The Project has generated more than 9000 million units of energy since its commissioning, reducing 2.4 million tons of emissions annually.