A two-member expert committee of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has visited the proposed cement plant site of Nirma in Mahuva taluka of Bhavnagar district and reportedly sought data regarding a so-called water body there. The NGT expert team of Gopal Pandey and Devendra Agrawal visited Samadhiyala Bandhara on Saturday, where farmers led by former BJP MLA Kanu Kalsaria are claiming to be a water body. The farmers are protesting the plant saying that it would affect their agricultural activity and the water body, from where, they claim, they draw water for irrigation, would be damaged. "The expert team had visited the site in summer also. But it wanted to observe the site in monsoon and check the water-level in Bandhara," an officer of Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) in Bhavnagar told The Indian Express on Sunday. Pandey and Agrawal also met representatives of Nirma and farmers. "The team has sought data regarding water storage capacity of Bandhara, its silting and evaporation rates, the amount of land irrigated by water from the said water body and rainfall in the area from the state government and parties concerned," the officer further said. The state government had allotted the detergent giant 268 hectares of land for the 1.91 million-tonne-per-year capacity cement plant.