Greater Noida Builders to Contribute to Sustainable Water Management with 1% Project Cost Allocation

                The National Green Tribunal Ordered that a case be registered against 38 builders on charges of water theft. Greater Noida West For ground water Exploitation and failed to deposit 
environment compensation despite notice from Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control BoardUPPCB,
Last week, the pollution control board had written to the ground water department asking it to file a complaint against the erring builders.
In July last year, a district-level joint committee, comprising district magistrates and officials from state and central pollution control boards, was constituted in the wake of petitions by two 
environmentalists alleging that around 40 builders were polluting 63 Residential projects are extracting groundwater illegally. ,
During the investigation, the committee found that 41 projects were extracting ground water through borewells. While it sealed 10 borewells, 12 others were closed by the builders 
themselves. The committee claimed that the three projects had obtained no-objection certificates from the Ground Water Department for using borewells.
Subsequently, the UPPCB sent two notices to 38 builders asking them to deposit 0.5% of the total project cost as environmental compensation, but received no response.
“On March 27, we wrote to the ground water department to register a case of water theft against these builders as they have not paid environment compensation. NGT The order read, 
“UPPCB Regional Officer Radhey Shyam said. The next NGT hearing in the matter is on May 15. We have to send an action taken report to the tribunal before that.”
According to the District Ground Water Department, GB Nagar comes under the notified area or over-exploited area in the ground water depletion category. In Greater NoidaThe water 
level has dropped from 13.60 meters in 2021 to 13.79 in 2022. While the water level in Jewar has dropped from 8.52 meters in 2021 to 8.81 meters in 2022.



Source : The Economic Time