New Delhi (NVI): Supreme Court today lashed out at the entire government machinery of four states concerned and the Centre, saying they have failed to tackle the air pollution choking Delhi and its neighbouring areas.
While slamming Delhi Government on air pollution, Supreme Court said “Why are people being forced to live in gas chambers? It is better to kill them all in one go, get explosives in 15 bags at one go. Why should people suffer all this? In Delhi blame game is going on.”
“Delhi is worse than hell. Life is not so cheap in India and you will have to pay, You have no right to be in chair. How many lakhs each person should be paid? How much do you value a person’s life?” Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra along with Deepak Gupta said.
“People are laughing at our country that we can’t even control stubble burning. Blame game is not serving the people of Delhi. You people will play the blame game, not taking pollution seriously,” reports quoting Justice Arun Mishra said.
Supreme Court also pulled up on Punjab Chief Secretary and has asked about what steps have been taken to prevent stubble burning.
“How can you treat people like this & let them die. Tell us why stubble burning Increased after our order. Why are you not able to check stubble burning. Is it not a failure?” Supreme Court said.
“Mr Chief Secretary (Punjab), we’ll hold every machinery in the state responsible. You can’t let people die like this. Delhi is near suffocating. Because you aren’t able to implement measures, doesn’t mean people in Delhi-NCR should die and suffer from Cancer” Supreme court bench said.
“Mr Chief Secretary (Punjab), we’ll hold every machinery in the state responsible. You can’t let people die like this. Delhi is near suffocating. Because you aren’t able to implement measures, doesn’t mean people in Delhi-NCR should die and suffer from Cancer” bench added.
Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Secretary told Supreme Court that “Delhi is facing ‘governance problem’ due to two power centres which is Delhi government and Centre.
After which Court directs Centre and Delhi government to keep their differences aside and sit together and finalise plan within 10 days for setting up air purifying towers in different parts of city.
Supreme Court has also asked Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to file report on adverse impact on environment of the factories running in Delhi. And has also asks to file details on the nature of factories operating in the capital.
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