File pic of world culture festival of Art of Living
Sri Sri Ravishankar's Art of Living while terming as ‘unscientific and illogical’ a National Green Tribunal panel's report has demanded a fresh probe by an ‘unbiased’ panel. The NGT had sumitted a report saying that AOL's three-day ‘World Cultural Festival’ caused damage to the Yamuna riverbed.
Demanding a fresh probe, AOL lawyer Kedar Desai and environment expert Prabhakar Rao told a press conference that ‘no damage’ was caused to the environment due to the event held in March. ‘The area was not notified as wetlands but as floodplains only. In the Delhi Wetland Atlas, there is no mention of any wetland at the site where the event was held,’ said Rao.
‘The Committee, in its report, has not quantified the damage.Earlier, it had estimated the damage at Rs. 1.2 billion. Now they are saying...they cannot provide a figure,’ said Rao.
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