Bombay HC directs govt to arrange growth authority to protect Lonar crater lake

THE Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra authorities to determine a Development Authority for the conservation of Lonar crater lake in Buldana district.
A bench of Justice Sunil Shukre and Justice Anil Killor issued the directive on Wednesday in response to a petition by one Kirti Nipankar, a lawyer, together with two activists, Sudhakar Bugdane and Govind Khekale.
The suggestion for such an Authority was made by amicus curie C S Kaptan.
Lonar lake, with a diameter of 1.8 km, is of nice scientific significance as it’s believed to be the one crater lake on this planet to have been fashioned in basaltic rock by the impression of a meteor about 50,000 years in the past.
The petitioners had moved the court docket a few years in the past, searching for its instructions to authorities authorities to provoke pressing steps to save lots of the crater lake which, they mentioned, was being contaminated resulting from passing of sewage water and different such causes.
“The proposal is for constituting a central agency, to be named as ‘Lonar Crater Lake Development Authority’. It contains introduction which gives brief idea about the urgent need for undertaking the task of conservation, preservation, development and maintenance of Lonar Crater Lake,” the bench mentioned.

Observing that the three committees proposed to be arrange by the state authorities — a process drive on the state degree and two committees on the regional degree — “may not achieve the desired object”, the bench mentioned, “it would be appropriate to constitute only one central agency which is entrusted with the entire responsibility of achieving the aforestated purpose and that agency could be in the nature as suggested in the fresh proposal submitted by the learned senior sdvocate (Kaptan).”
The state authorities had issued authorities resolutions to represent the three committees after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s go to to the lake in February.

The court docket additionally oberved that the concept had been beneath its consideration for the final one-and-a-half years. “This court had also indicated by passing a judicial order that it would constitute a committee of such nature but there was silence on the part of the state,” the bench noticed.
The High Court then directed the Chief Secretary to take vital steps to problem acceptable authorities decision to represent a Lonar Development Authority.