The Public Action Committee, a Ludhiana-based civic association, has accused the Municipal Corporation of violating clear directives of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) by initiating concrete lining along the Buddha Dariya near Shivpuri Bridge.

It has shot a letter addressed to the District Magistrate, Regional Office of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Chandigarh, Punjab Pollution Control Board, and Department of Water Resources, the association alleged that the ongoing construction amounts to contempt of court orders and poses serious ecological and civic risks.

The association reminded the authorities that in the case of the Public Action Committee and others vs Punjab and others, the NGT had directed the formation of a joint committee comprising official

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