The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday (NGT) gave Art of Living (AOL) the go ahead for its World Cultural Festival on the Yamuna riverbed.
NGT also asked AOL to develop the entire area in question into a biodiversity park.
Besides this, AOL has also been asked to deposit the environmental compensation before the start of the programme.
NGT has also asked AOL to give an undertaking by Thursday that enzymes won’t be released into the Yamuna river and no further degradation of environment will take place.
The NGT has told the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to pay Rs.1 lakh and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee to pay Rs.5 lakh as fines for not their discharging statutory functions.
A fine of Rs 5 crore as environment compensation has been slapped on AOL Foundation.
13 Amazing Environmental Facts
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Open Image Modal The amount of water on Earth is constant, and continually recycled over time: some of the water you drink will have passed through a dinosaur. (credit:Shutterstock)
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Open Image Modal 40 percent of all bottled water sold in the world is bottled tap water. (credit:Shutterstock)
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Open Image Modal 27,000 trees are felled each day for toilet paper. (credit:Shutterstock)
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Open Image Modal Paper can be recycled only six times. After that, the fibers are too weak to hold together. (credit:Shutterstock)
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Open Image Modal There is no known scientific way of predicting earthquakes. The most reliable method is to count the number of missing cats in the local paper: if it trebles, an earthquake is imminent. (credit:Shutterstock)
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Open Image Modal Cat originally means 'dog.' The word comes from the Latin catulus, a small dog or puppy. (credit:Shutterstock)
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Open Image Modal Humans and elephants are the only animals with chins. (credit:Shutterstock)
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Open Image Modal Beavers have transparent eyelids so they can see underwater with their eyes shut. (credit:Shutterstock)
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Open Image Modal Octopuses have three hearts. (credit:Shutterstock)
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Open Image Modal The 100,000 trillion ants in the world weigh about the same as all human beings. (credit:Shutterstock)
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Open Image Modal As soon as tiger shark embryos develop teeth they attack and eat each other in the womb. (credit:Shutterstock)
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Open Image Modal There are more than 1,200 species of bat in the world and not one of them is blind. (credit:Shutterstock)
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Open Image Modal Dolphins shed the top layer of their skin every two hours. (credit:Shutterstock)