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NGT summons community leaders over STP to tackle Yamuna pollution

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New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday summoned representatives of the Valmiki community from Najafgarh after the Delhi Government expressed its inability to set up an STP for cleaning the Yamuna river since the land in the area belonged to the community.

An NGT bench headed by its Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar ordered the SHO concerned to bring to the green court representatives of the Valmiki community from Dichaon Kalan village on Friday.

The Tribunal, in October, slammed the Delhi government and the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for delaying its orders on the Yamuna cleaning project.

On Thursday, the National Capital Territory of Delhi authorities informed the tribunal about the inability to install the sewage treatment plant (STP) in the village since the land belonged to the Valmiki Samaj.

“Land acquisition is an issue… the Valmiki Samaj is not giving the land… we cannot displace the people there,” the Delhi government told the NGT.

The bench thereafter ordered summoning of the community representatives.

Earlier, the tribunal ordered the installation of seven STPs along the Yamuna to control pollution due to sewage.

The DJB said it had initiated the process but could not go ahead due to lack of central funds.

The tribunal had earlier directed the Delhi government and the DJB to submit a status report on the progress in the work in the first phase of cleaning of the river.

Pointing out that pollution of the Yamuna by industrial effluents and sewage was a matter of serious concern, the green court had noted that almost 67 per cent of the pollutants entering the river would be treated by two sewage treatment plants at Delhi Gate and Najafgarh under the first phase of the ‘Maili Se Nirmal Yamuna Revitalisation Project’.

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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