{"id":86716,"date":"2019-04-11T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T09:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2019-04-11T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T09:15:40","slug":"ngt-sets-up-central-monitoring-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ngt-sets-up-central-monitoring-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"NGT sets up Central monitoring panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has\nconstituted a Central Monitoring Committee. NGT has entrusted the committee\nwith the task of undertaking and executing a national plan to make river\nstretches across India pollution-free.<\/li><li>The Committee will be composed of senior\nrepresentatives of NITI Aayog, Secretaries of the Ministry of Water Resources,\nMinistry of Urban Development, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate\nChange, Chairman of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Director General\nof National Mission for Clean Ganga<\/li><li>The formation of the committee comes in the\nbackdrop of proceedings which began after taking <em>suo motu<\/em> cognisance of\na 2018 newspaper report titled \u201cMore river stretches are now critically\npolluted: CPCB\u201d. The report had highlighted that the issue of increased polluted\nriver stretches and pegged the number at 351. <\/li><li>Earlier, the NGT had ordered the CPCB, respective\nState pollution control boards and pollution control committees, to launch a\nnationwide programme on biodiversity monitoring and indexing of the rivers to assess\nthe effectiveness of river cleaning programmes. <\/li><li>It had also directed the Union Environment\nMinistry to formulate a policy for giving environmental awards to institutions\nand States that comply with orders and ensure reduction in pollution.<\/li><li>The National Green Tribunal was established in\n2010 under the National Green Tribunal Act 2010. The responsibility of the\ntribunal is to work on the disposal of cases related to environmental\nprotection, conservation of forests and other natural resources.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a Central Monitoring Committee. NGT has entrusted the committee with the task of undertaking and executing a national plan to make river stretches across India pollution-free. The Committee will be composed of senior representatives of NITI Aayog, Secretaries of the Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Urban Development,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ngt-sets-up-central-monitoring-panel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NGT sets up Central monitoring panel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4206,943],"class_list":["post-86716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ngt","tag-river-pollution","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}