National Green Tribunal has ordered the nodal officer and officials of Municipal Corporation Haridwar to submit the list of hotels, hospice and missions that are operating in the city and set a deadline on Monday for the submission during the hearing that was held on Wednesday.
local commissioner of National Green Tribunal (NGT) Shariq Abbas Zaidi informed The Pioneer on phone that during the hearing held on Wednesday, chairperson NGT Justice Swatantra Kumar ordered the Nodal officer Haridwar and officials of Municipal Corporation Haridwar (MCH) to submit the updated list of all hotels, hospice and missions that are operating in the city latest by Monday (September 28)- the day the next hearing is slated. Zaidi further said that the chairperson had sounded serious over things fast worsening in Haridwar in terms of cleanliness of Ganga and elimination of the plastic/polythene menace.
Quizzed over surprise visits that are supposed to be conducted by the NGT officials to check whether the submission given by the nodal officers and others is matching with the ground situation, he said they might happen any day. NGT fixing dates of hearing following one another in quick succession has put the nodal officers and district administration officials on their toes, an observer said.