NGT pulls up State for poor solid waste management

Green tribunal says action plan not satisfactory

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has pulled up the State government for not taking effective steps to implement the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016.

The Southern Bench of the tribunal comprising Justice K. Ramakrishnan and expert member Satyapal Korlapati pointed out that the action plan [for implementation of the rules] submitted by the Chief Secretary “is not satisfactory as it is evident from the timelines submitted”.

“No proper scrutiny was made him or by the Principal Secretary concerned. We do not wish to point out the oddities in the timelines indicated in the report, instead we leave it to the Chief Secretary to go through the action plan once again and submit a realistic report considering that the implementation of solid waste management is very poor for long time,” said the latest order issued by the court in the case related to the non-implementation of the solid waste management rules in the State.