Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding standards for irrigation of the land from sewage water, 08/12/2015
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Dr. Subhash C. Pandey Vs. Union of India & Others dated 08/12/2015 regarding standards for irrigation of the land from sewage water. It has been brought to the Tribunal's notice from a news report published in one of the Hindi Dailies which reports that Dr. Pankaj Shukla, CMHO, Bhopal had conducted certain tests based upon which he found that certain heavy metals and residue pesticides / insecticides were found in the vegetables being grown from sewage farms much above standards prescribed under the Act of 2006.