Inform If You Will Implement Water Harvesting Plan, SC To States

The Supreme Court today emphasized on the need to implement the Centre’s master plan for artificial recharge of ground water.

Chief Justice J S Khehar –led bench asked all state governments to inform by tomorrow if they planned to implement it.

“Several states like Assam, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana have not yet filed affidavits in this regard”, said the bench.

“The state governments will inform us tomorrow whether the 2013 master plan for artificial recharge of ground water as suggested by the Government of India will be implemented or not by them”, the bench said and fixed the matter for hearing tomorrow.

SC had earlier directed all state governments to file affidavits affirming whether they would implement the 2013 master plan after the Centre had said its copies have been supplied to the states.

The Centre had said the issue of ground water harvesting was important and it had circulated various plans from time to time to all the states from 2006 onwards.