New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- A total of twelve cricket stadiums across the country, including Maharashtra's DY Patil stadium and Delhi's Arun Jaitley Stadium, are yet to submit compliance reports in terms of adoption of water treatment plants and rainwater harvesting systems to reduce reliance on groundwater, the Central Groundwater Authority (CGWA) has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT). In an affidavit dated January 20, it said 10 stadiums had so far shared compliance, which includes Punjab's IS Bindra Stadium, Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium, Kolkata's Eden Gardens and Chennai's MA Chidambaram stadium. The measures adopted include setting up of rainwater harvesting pits at the stadium, as well as parallel sewage treatment plants (STPs), it said. The NGT has been hearing a plea filed by an applicant Haider Ali, who in his petition, in 2021, had alleged that stadiums were using groundwater for maintenance of the ground, without availing any alternatives such as STPs water or rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems for storing rainwater. The Jal Shakti ministry had told NGT in August 2023 that 20 stadiums from across the country were given notices for their use of borewells or tube wells for ground maintenance, without having a valid No Objection Certificate (NOC). An inspection of 26 stadiums across the country had found 24 had borewells, but only four had a valid NOC, the ministry had told the green tribunal. The latest submission by the CGWA has stated while 10 stadiums have shared compliance, another 12 stadiums had yet to respond despite NGT orders issued in March, July and October of last year. "It is prayed that appropriate directions are issued to the remaining respondent cricket stadiums who have not furnished their responses to the CGWA despite several directions issued by the hon'ble tribunal," said the report. It states while the IS Bindra stadium has two RWH pits, installation of an STP was not feasible. The Jamtha stadium in Nagpur has installed two STP plants, while having RWH pits already operational and Eden Gardens has operationalised a 150 KLD STP, it said. The Wankhede, which had RWH pits operational since 2017, has installed three new ring wells as additional RWH pits, the submission states. Stadiums at Chennai and Guwahati have also installed STPs, while the Brabourne stadium is in process of getting treated water from a nearby STP. The stadiums in Visakhapatnam (YS Rajashekhara Reddy stadium) and Haryana's (Chaudhary Bansi Lal) stadium have installed two RWH systems each. The report adds stadiums at Delhi, Raipur, Rajkot, Pune, Jaipur (Sawai Mansingh stadium), Indore, Maharashtra's DY Patil stadium, Kanpur, Lucknow, Hyderabad (Rajiv Gandhi stadium), Dharamshala and Cuttack were yet to disclose corrective measures....