Lucknow, July 5 -- : Taking serious note of water pollution caused by chromium, mercury, fluoride and iron in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat, and Fatehpur districts, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has recommended forming an expert team of doctors to provide treatment to affected persons.

This team will comprise doctors from AIIMS-New Delhi, and Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences-Lucknow, among others.

Other members of the team will be Dr Rajnarayan Tiwari, director of ICMR-National Institute for Research in Environment Health-Bhopal and Dr TK Joshi, former head of the department of epidemiology, RML Hospital-New Delhi.

The Uttar Pradesh chief secretary and the state's secretary, health, will also be part ...