Mumbai, March 25 -- Acting within 24 hours of a complaint to the PMO on three flamingo wetlands turning toxic, the Centre has invoked the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2017 and asked the Maharashtra government to act and submit an action taken report.
The complaint, filed by environmental watchdog NatConnect Foundation on Sunday, World Water Day, flagged the rapid ecological decline of DPS, NRI and T S Chanakya lakes at Nerul in Navi Mumbai.
It was backed by tests commissioned by NatConnect Foundation, with analysis by a Thane-based private laboratory, which found that all water samples failed prescribed quality norms.
The union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), in its response on Monday, direct...