By IANS
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Tuesday suggested the central government to constitute a monitoring committee to oversee the ecological aspects of the construction of the Commonwealth Games village here.
A bench headed by Justice A.K. Sikri and Rekha Sharma asked the government to see if a committee could be constituted after a petition by environmentalist Rajinder Singh alleged the construction of the village on the Yamuna riverbed might harm the eco-system.
“You (government) think over it again and let us know if R.K. Pachauri, chairman of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), would like to head this committee,” the court said and asked the government to reply in two days.
The court’s contention of setting up a committee came soon after the government pleaded before it that the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) had recently given a green signal to the project for the Commonwealth Games New Delhi will host in 2010.
The government also said it was taking every possible step to ensure that the construction will not harm the eco-system of the riverbed.