India, Nov. 7 -- The Supreme Court on Friday expressed concern over a lack of seriousness in removing pollution in Rajasthan's Jojari River, noting it poses a health hazard to nearly two million people.

"It seems none of the autonomous bodies in Rajasthan want pollution to be removed," said a bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta in a suo motu matter on the worsening river pollution due to industrial waste and domestic sewage in Jodhpur, Jaipur, and Pali.

The bench observed that appeals of the Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation Limited (RIICO), civic bodies of Pali, Balotra, and Jodhpur were pending before the court against a 2022 National Green Tribunal (NGT) order for cleaning the river.

The b...