New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to make rainwater harvesting "attractive" by giving wide publicity to its benefits including rebate in water tariff.
A division bench of Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said: "Why aren't you taking out advertisements in newspapers? We feel wider publicity is needed for public awareness to enable community at large to participate in rainwater harvesting programmes."
The bench further said that the DJB needed to emphasize in their advertisements that it would provide technical and financial assistance to people interested in setting up such systems.
The court directed DJB to file its response indicating steps taken on advertising through newspapers, and other medium by next date of hearing April 22.
Previously, the DJB had informed the court that it had made it mandatory for property of 500 sq metres or more in the national capital to install provision for rainwater harvesting.
To encourage rainwater conservation, the DJB said it had adopted the method of awarding subsidy in the water bill to the consumers who have installed rainwater-harvesting system in their plots.
On non-compliance with the provision, "the tariff applicable on the consumer increases by 1.5 times", the DJB had said.
The bench was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by advocate R.K. Kapoor seeking to make rainwater harvesting mandatory for both residential and commercial buildings here.
In a press conference held earlier in the era of Amazon Prime Video, when Hindi cinema's Khiladi
Hyderabad, Feb 2 (IANS) Kothapalli Geetha, a member of parliament in Andhra Pradesh, has been di
England had to face the lethal bowling of Jasprit Bumrah in the second Test, but head coach Brend
Railways are building the Vande Metro train which will replace the Metro train designed in the 19
Television and film actor Salim Ghosh, who has acted in Bollywood, South Indian, and English film
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a meeting with the officials of public sector banks
Corona returns in China: calls for more than 30 thousand ambulances daily, long queues for funerals
Once again there has been a huge explosion of Corona in China. Despite the Zero Covid policy, the
Coronavirus cases are increasing again around the world. Vaccination work is also going on in ful
India to cooperate with Japan, Russia in disaster management
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) Home Minister Rajnath Singh has assured Japan and Russia of "bilater
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is claiming that the NDA has crossed 400. How will we be able to ove
