Taking suo motu cognizance of a newspaper report about how more river stretches are now critically polluted as per the record of the Central Pollution Control Board, the National Green Tribunal has devised a model action plan, divided river stretches into “priorities” depending upon the extent of pollution and has directed all states and union territories to prepare action plans. …
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