Pleas at NGT link pollution to cancer

GREATER NOIDA: A Greater Noida-based environmentalist on Friday filed a petition in the National Green Tribunal against large scale pollution and contamination of groundwater in the Chhapraula Industrial Area and alleged that several residents in the area are suffering from cancer and other deadly diseases contracted due to consumption and use of polluted water.
Meanwhile, Centre for Human Rights, an NGO in Rohini also filed a petition in NGT on the same issue which was heard on Friday. The principal bench of NGT headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notices to the chief secretary, Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board, district magistrate and senior superintendent of police, Greater Noida and the Central Pollution Control Board directing them to file a report on the rising cancer cases in some villages of Greater Noida.
The petition was filed by Yogesh Nagar, who heads an organization named Jai Ho Sankalp Seva Ka.