National Green Tribunal principal bench at New Delhi on Tuesday directed the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to monitor progress of implementation of action plan in accordance with the Namami Gange Project.
The Court has issued issued the following orders to the State authorities to be enforced in the cities of Prayagraj, Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur Nagar and Gorakhpur:
On behalf of Kashi Vishwanath temple, it was said that there is continuous worship in and around the basement, so the petition should be dismissed while allowing illegal construction and renovation of the temple.
The Supreme Court today reserved its order on a petition challenging the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Varanasi constituency in last year’s Lok Sabha elections.
The Allahabad High Court has been informed by the state government that the case of Shiv Kumar Trivedi, a BSc student of BHU, missing from the Lanka Police Station of Varanasi, has been handed over to CB-CID for investigation.
The Allahabad High Court has pulled up the Municipal Authorities of Varanasi, while hearing a PIL filed by Dhyanesh Bhattacharya and four others raising a serious issue with regard to failing in the discharge of public duties by the Urban Local Self Government.