A division bench of the Gujarat High Court has directed the Ahmedabad
Municipal Corporation (AMC), the Gujarat Pollution Control Board, and
Ahmedabad Mega Clean Association to submit before the court their vision,
planning, decisions, and concrete actions that the bodies plan to undertake to
ensure zero wastewater discharge into the Sabarmati River.
The development comes as the court noted that the earlier directions issued by
the HC for curbing pollution and discharge of wastewater in the river have not
been followed.
However, since the time that Sabarmati River Front Development Corporation
appointed Ranjit Buildcon to carry out the construction of certain portions of
Riverfront Phase-2, it has also been brought to the notice that Ranjit Buildcon
has created an artificial cesspool due to which the contaminated sewage is
getting collected in the cesspool and the flow into the river has been stopped.
However, according to the amicus, a huge quantity of contaminated sewage
within a small area would result in percolation of the contaminants directly into
the underground water table and hence the creation of the artificial cesspool
results in the destruction of the ecological balance of the area.
