National Green Tribunal continues with its ban on farming on the banks of the Yamuna in Delhi

National Green Tribunal has refused to permit farmers to carry out cultivation on their farms located along the banks of the River Yamuna. This is because the waters are polluted with heavy metals and other high pollutants and these will affect the quality of the final vegetable.
People will buy these vegetables and fall sick after eating them.
This has been reported in deccanherald.com dated 16 November 2016.

NGT has commented that till such time Delhi Jal Board cleans, no permission will be given to carry out farming on the banks of the river. The observations came during the hearing of a plea filed by a local farmer who was seeking NGT’s nod for cultivation on the ground because the only source of his livelihood was farming.
NGT was firm that cultivation of edible crops and vegetables on the floodplains of Yamuna can be permitted only after Yamuna is restored and made pollution-free.


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