Datta, Additional Solictor General, R.K. Jain, Vinod Bobde, R.N. Trivedi, K.N. Bhat, Tapash Ray, B.R.L. Iyenger P. Singh, R.P. Kapur, Ravinder Narain, S. Sukumaran, C.B. Singh, S.K. Dhingra, P.K. Jain, D.N. Goburdhan, Arvind Kumar, Ms. Laxmi Arvind, Vineet Kumar, Deepak K. Thakur, V. S. N. Chari, Ms. Vrinda Grover, Badri Nath, Rakesh Khanna, Mukul Mudgal, A.K. Ghose, M.M. Gangadeb, Probir Mirtra, Sushil Kumar Jain, Saryakant, Pappy T. Mathews, Mrs, Mamta Kachhawaha, Mrs. Shobha Dikshit, G.S. Misra, S.R. Srivastava, Parijat Sinha, R. Mohan, Ms. Bina Gupta, Ranjit Kumar, Krishna Kumar, R.C. Verma, Arun Minocha, Sri Narain, C. Agrawala, S.R. Setia, H.K. Puri, T.S. Rana, Pramod Swarup, Ashok Grover, S. Markandeya, Swarup.
Ms, Lalita Kohli, K.C. Dua, Rajbirbal, R.A. Gupta and Ms. A. Subhashini for the Respondents.
Appendix A/1 to An Action Plan for Prevention of Pollution of the Ganga gives the following particulars relating to the quantity of sewerage generated in the City of Kanpur which is discharged into the river Ganga and other relevant matters KANPUR Population Estimated water Estimated sewage Treatment in 1981 supply in 1981 generated 70 of the water supply to the city 16.39 lacks 392.14 million 274.50 million Nil litres a day litres a day It is thus seen that 274.50 million litres a day of sewage water is being discharged into the river Ganga from the city of Kanpur, which is the highest in the State of Uttar Pradesh and next only to the city of Calcutta which discharges 580.
The night soil companylected from the unsewered areas of the city and thrown into the nalas.
There are more than 80 tanneries in Jajmau whose effluent used to be directly discharged into the river.
The main reasons for mal functioning and choking of the city sewerage, according to the affidavit, are i throwing or discharging of solids, clothes, plastics, metals etc.
The total water supply in Kanpur is about 55 mil lion gallons per day.
into the sewerage system ii throwing of company dung from dairies which are located in every part of the city which companysists of about 80,000 cattle iii laying of under sized sewers specially in labour companyonies iv throwing of solid wastes and malba from companystruction of buildings into sewers through manholes v number availability of mechanical equipment for sewer cleaning works and vi shortage of funds for proper maintenance.
It is asserted that the discharge of untreated effluents into the river Ganga will be stopped upto 80 by March, 1988.
The case as against the several industries in the State of Uttar Pradesh which are located on the banks of the river Ganga will he taken up for hearing on the 9th of February, 1988.