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(i) Order dated 19.09.2018 in O.A. No. 606/2018: on composition of Eastern Reginal Monitoring Committee to include West Bengal State Pollution Control Board and providing remuneration/honorarium for Chairpersons of the Committees.

(ii) Order dated 12.10.2018 in O.A. No. 606/2018: redefining composition of Northern Reginal Monitoring and constituting a separate Committee for the State of U.P. under the Chairmanship of Justice D.P. Singh

(iii) Order dated 30.10.2018 in O.A. No. 606/2018: directing that the Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department, Government of Tamil Nadu will be the Member - Secretary of the Monitoring Committee for the Southern Region instead of Principal Secretary, Urban Development, Tamil Nadu. The Tribunal further emphasized that each village, town and a city of State should have Action Plan management of Municipal Solid Waste, Bio-medical waste, Plastics waste and Construction and Demolition waste as per the respective rules in a time- bound manner. Further, Urban Development Department of the State of Madhya Pradesh was directed to facilitate the working of the Central Regional Monitoring Committee.

25. The above directions with regard to polluted rivers, polluted air, polluted industrial clusters and issues of illegal sand mining are also inter-linked with compliance of SWM Rules, 2016 as also with Hazardous and Other Wastes Management Rules, 2016, Bio-medical Wastes Management Rules, 2016, Construction and Demolition Wastes Management Rules, 2016 and Plastics Wastes Management Rules, 2016, E-waste (Management) Rules, 2016 etc. A holistic view is required to be taken. All factors degrading environment need to be addressed in an integral manner. This is to be guided by the principle of 'Sustainable Development'. This requires coordination with several authorities of a State. Such coordination, having regard to serious impact on health and environment must be coordinated at the highest level periodically. This requires involvement of Chief Secretaries/Administrators of all the States and UTs. We have noted in several orders that compliance is a serious issue and satisfactory progress is not being achieved.22

40. The Chief Secretaries may acquaint and keep themselves ready on the following points:

a. Status of compliance of SWM Rule, 2016, Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 and Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016 in their respective areas.
b. Status of functioning of Committees constituted by this order.
c. Status of the Action Plan in compliance vide order dated 20.09.2018 in the News Item published in "The Hindu" authored by Shri Jacob Koshy Titled "More river stretches are now critically polluted: CPCB (Original Application No. 673/2018).