Just four of 107 UP villages hit by groundwater pollution got piped supply in a ...
(WorldNews India)

An oversight committee formed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam for failing to provide piped water supply to villages in western UP affected by groundwater contamination due to the toxic Hindon river and its tributaries. In its report submitted to the NGT on July 30, the panel said that of the 148 affected villages in Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Meerut, Saharanpur and Ghaziabad, only 41 have been provided piped water supply till July 2019. Expressing surprise, the committee said only four of the remaining 107 villages had been connected with the supply network since then. “Despite repeated directions by Hon`ble NGT and this committee, the UP...