SC to pass order in bid to save polluted Rajasthan river that impacts 2m lives

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court connected Tuesday took suo motu cognisance of media reports astir lives and livelihood of 2 cardinal radical being adversely impacted by terrible contamination of Jojari stream adjacent Jodhpur due to the fact that of discharge of untreated discarded h2o by much than 400 alloy rolling and textile units.

The tribunal said it would walk a broad bid connected Oct 9 for the river's "restoration".A seat of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta told Rajasthan's further advocator wide Siv Mangal Sharma that National Green Tribunal (NGT) has already taken cognisance of Jojari's pollution, and said remedial steps are to beryllium taken urgently to prevention it. Sharma said respective directions by NGT person been challenged successful SC and are pending adjudication.Polluted stream h2o unusable adjacent for animals Jojari is simply a seasonal river, which originates successful Pandalu colony of Nagaur, and aft joining Luni stream astatine Balotra flows done the limits of Jodhpur. For the past 2 decades, the untreated discharge of chemicals from implicit 400 textile and alloy units has rendered the stream h2o unusable adjacent for animals, impacting the lives of residents of 50 villages on it Jodhpur-Barmer stretch.The stream is the root of drinking h2o for villagers successful the Thar desert.

Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board besides noted, "Farmers usage the water. Consumption of specified cultivation products tin person adverse effects connected the quality assemblage arsenic toxic dense metals are present." Apart from the pH value, the full suspended solids, chemic oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand, and lipid and grease quantities successful the samples taken from Jojari were recovered to beryllium overmuch higher than the prescribed standards, the study said. There are reports of radical migrating from villages adjoining the stream due to the fact that of terrible h2o shortage. The biodiversity of the country has besides suffered with flora and fauna disappearing.