Cuttack Mar 29 PTI The Cuttack Municipal Corporation has told the Orissa High Court that discharge of untreated sewage into a major distributary of the Mahanadi river would stop soonThe court was hearing a writ petition filed six years ago by Khan Nagar Khapuria Puja Committee which sought judicial intervention on the release of untreated sewage water into the Kathajodi riverThe assurance came after the State Pollution Control Board SPCB expressed grave concern about the quality of water at the point of discharge into the riverThe sewage of the city will be diverted to the sewage treatment plant in Matagajpur henceforth through an underground line a CMC official told the courtThe sewage will undergo requisite treatment before being discharged into the river to control pollution he saidThree treatment plants are currently functioning to check the inflow of sewage into the Kathajodi riverThe bench headed by Chief Justice S Muralidhar had asked the SPCB and the CMC last week to conduct a quality test of the river water at the discharge point and submit a report PTI CORR HMB RBT RBT
New Delhi [India], March 5 (ANI): National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday took suo motu cognizance of a media report referring to the recent Bihar Economic Survey 2021-22 that in 31 of 38 districts of the State the groundwater is contaminated with Arsenic, Fluoride and excessive Iron.
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