Hence, responsibility should be fixed now or else the currents efforts too will not bear fruit,rdquo; Gupta, an amicus curiae of the Allahabad high court, said over the phone from the Uttar Pradesh cityAmong others, the panel led by retired Justice Giridhar Malaviya, has also suggested declaring an area abutting within 1 kilometre from Ganga and its major tributaries as a ldquo;water saving zonerdquo;. Offender concerned shall be punishable with imprisonment for the term which may extend up to seven years in case the failure continues for a year after a conviction. Such a meeting shall be convened in the near future,rdquo; sources in the ministry said.* Contaminating water of Ganga/tributary by disposal of pesticide, non-degradable plastic, waste batteries, hazardous chemicals: imprisonment for a term extending up to one year or with fine which may extend up to Rs 50,000 or with both and in case contravention continues, with additional fine which may extend up to Rs 5000.* Constructing jetties/port/permanent hydraulic structure for storage/diversion/control/channelisation of water into/from Ganga/tributaries sans permission: one year imprisonment and monetary fine which may extend up to Rs 50 crore.
Withdrawing water by electric/diesel-operated tubewells from the land fronting Ganga/tributaries: simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to Rs 2000, or with both.* Causing discontinuity in flow of water in Ganga/ tributaries without permission from competent authority: Offender shall be liable to imprisonment up to two years and monetary fine which may extend to Rs 100 crore.In case the contravention continues, an additional fine extending up to Rs 20,000 per day. 100 crore for anyone who commits a range of offences on the river, including blocking its flow, quarrying its banks or constructing jetties without permission.Some of the major punishments for various offences recommended by the panel are:* Stone quarrying, crushing, cutting, finishing or processing sand mining illegally in bed/on banks of Ganga/its tributaries: Simple imprisonment up to five years or with fine which may extend up to Rs 50,000 or both.A Centre-appointed panel has drafted a bill, the National River Ganga (Rejuvenation, Protection and Management) Bill 2017, which if passed into a law will also prescribe seven years in jail and a fine of up to Rs. Now add one more crime to that list that may soon attract such a stringent punishment: messing with Ganga.
Advocate Arun Kumar Gupta, one of the four members of the expertsrsquo; committee currently studying the draft bill, pitched for making stringent provisions to ensure people did not violate the law which aims to make the river pollution-free.The panel though has suggested that such zones may be defined after conducting scientific studies within 6 months after the bill is enacted.ldquo;Crores of rupees were spent on cleaning the river in the past, but all went down the drain. The imprisonment may be extended to five years in case the failure continues beyond a period of a year after conviction.The Uttarakhand High Court recently declared the river a ldquo;living entity,rdquo; and the panelrsquo;s bill makes it emphatically clear that troubling it can be a costly affair, if converted into the countryrsquo;s first ever act on a river.Additional fine which may extend up to Rs 2000 per day in case of contravention.
The government has forwarded the draft, submitted to the water resources ministry in April, to another expertsrsquo; committee to seek their suggestions on the bill, which will be further discussed with the basin states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and
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