India, March 23 -- The Western bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on March 20 issued notice to PMRDA and Rajgurunagar Municipal Council to submit a report on untreated sewage waste being dumped in the Bhima River in the Rajgurunagar area. The notice was issued based on a complaint filed by Vishwajit Dixit, a local resident, on March 7, and the tribunal has given both local bodies four weeks to submit their responses.

The river pollution due to untreated sewage discharge has been a serious point of concern in Pune for a long time. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) time and again, highlighted the need for the expansion of STPs in the Pune Metropolitan Region.

Dixit holds farmland in the Rajgurunagar area and complaine...