TNPCB-certified water alone can be filled in Ananthasaras
The Madras High Court on Friday made it clear that the water let into the Ananthasaras, where Athi Varadhar is going to rest for another forty years, should be certified by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) with consequential treatment for purification if found necessary.
By : migrator
Update: 2019-08-16 22:06 GMT
Chennai
Justice PD Audikesavalu passing interim orders on a plea seeking for a direction to thoroughly clean up the tank before immersing the idol, sought TNPCB to submit a report about the quality of water that was let into the tank onAugust 19.
TNPCB in a report had submitted that while the water samples collected from Potramarai Kulam revealed turbidity, other parameters were within the permissible limits specified for drinking water. The parameters for the bore water within the temple was within the permissible limits specified for drinking water as per ISI0500:2012.
However, Justice Audikesavalu held that it would not be desirable to re-transfer water from Potramarai kulam and the water let into Ananthasaras should possess drinking water standards.
Also, regards cleaning of the tank ahead of the immersion, the HR&CE’s counsel submitted that 90 per cent of the cleaning work has been completed and availing the services of CISF as suggested by the judge was not required since a mere 10 per cent needs to be completed.
As per the counsels, submission the deity of Athi Varadhar would be placed back in the underground chamber of the temple Ananthasaras in the late night hours of August 17 and early morning hours of August 18 before dawn, and hence some amount of water would be immediately required to be filled in the tank.
No extension for public view
In another related development, two public interest litigations seeking to extend the time limit for the public view of Athi Varadhar for another 48 days were dismissed by a division bench comprising Justice S Manikumar and Justice Subramonium Prasad.
The pleas had sought for extending the public view of the deity as no agama rule insisted that Athi Varadhar can be kept for public view only for 48 days. However, the bench refused to intervene on decisions which were on the State government’s domain.
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