ORDER

1. This order may be read in continuation of order dated 29.06.2020. Issue for consideration is the remedial action for pollution of Rivers Sutlej and Beas in the State of Punjab and other incidental matters. The subject has been dealt with by this Tribunal in the last five years on several occasions. The matter was exhaustively reviewed on 24.07.2018. It was noted that main sources of pollution are discharge of untreated industrial effluents by industries, discharge of untreated municipal sewage as well as solid or other waste disposal either directly in the said rivers or in the drains or the tributaries of the said rivers.

2. River Sutlej also finds mention in 351 identified polluted river stretches based on data compiled by Central Pollution Control Board (“CPCB”) which issue has been dealt with vide order dated 21.9.2020 in O.A. No. 673/2018 to which reference will be made later.

3. Vide order dated 24.07.2018, [In O.A. No. 101/2014, Sobha Singh & Ors. Vs. State of Punjab & Ors.], this Tribunal directed the CPCB to constitute a Monitoring Committee with representatives from the Pollution Control Boards of Punjab and Rajasthan and Mr. Balbir Singh Seechewal, a volunteer and