New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Principal Bench, New Delhi, has expressed serious concern over the continued groundwater extraction by several cricket stadiums across the country to irrigate cricket grounds, despite earlier directions to shift to treated sewage water.

The Tribunal has directed erring cricket associations to explain their non-compliance and imposed environmental compensation on those who failed to submit mandatory reports.

A Bench headed by Justice Prakash Shrivastava, Chairperson, along with Expert Member A Senthil Vel, while hearing Execution Application connected with Original Application, noted that the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) had filed a consolidated compilation on January 20, ...