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Art of Living has no sense of responsibility: NGT
The National Green Tribunal, the highest environmental court in the country, slammed Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for alleging bias in a tribunal committee\'s recent report on Yamuna riverbed damage.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's remarks shocking
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal, the highest environmental court in the country, slammed Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for alleging bias in a tribunal committee's recent report on Yamuna riverbed damage.
The report criticised Art of Living's World Culture Festival, held in March last year, for damaging the Yamuna riverbank and went to quantify the damage caused. The NGT on Thursday termed Ravi Shankar's statements alleging bias "shocking" and also slammed Art of Living.
"You have no sense of responsibility. Do you think you have the liberty to say whatever you want?" the NGT bench asked, setting the next date of hearing on May 9. The tribunal also directed Art of Living and other parties to file their replies and objections to the expert panel's report.
The comments came after advocate Sanjay Parikh, appearing for petitioner Manoj Misra, told the bench about Ravi Shankar's statement blaming the government and the NGT for permitting the AoL to hold the World Culture Festival on Yamuna floodplains last year.
A seven-member expert committee, headed by former Secretary of Water Resources Ministry Shashi Shekhar, says the festival has caused ecological damage caused to over 300 acres of floodplains.
Ravi Shankar hit back, saying the authorities should have never given permission to hold the festival if Yamuna was "so fragile and pure".
He said the fine should be levied on the NGT as well as the Central and Delhi governments for giving permission to hold the event. Responding to the statement of the NGT, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has said that Art of Living has done no wrong. "The truth is we have caused no damage to Yamuna. When lies are exposed, it is shocking," he said.
