A division bench of the Gujarat High Court requested assistnace from state advocate general Kamal Trivedi while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) concerning air pollution on Friday and sought several details, including daily production, consumption and utilisation of CNG and PNG in the state, as well as the number of industries using CNG or PNG as fuel.
The bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and VD Nanavati also noted that the state had not appeared before the bench and recorded in its order that the court seeks to know from the state “its future action plan to curb the menace and the problem of air pollution that is being caused by use of coal and lignite”.
