From correspondents in Delhi, India, 09:30 PM IST
R.K. Pachauri, chairman of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has declined to head a monitoring committee to oversee the ecological aspects of the construction of the Commonwealth Games Village here, the government told the Delhi High Court Friday.
Pachauri had instead suggested that an organisation could deal with the matter, the government counsel said.
A bench headed by Justices A.K. Sikri and Rekha Sharma posted the matter to Feb 12 to decide if an organisation like the Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) could be handed over the task.
The court earlier this week asked the government to see if such a committee could be constituted. The move came after a petition by environmentalist Rajinder Singh alleged the construction of the Games Village on the Yamuna riverbed might harm the eco-system.
The government pleaded before it that the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) had recently given a green signal to the project for the Commonwealth Games that New Delhi will host in 2010.
The government added that it was taking every possible step to ensure that the construction would not harm the eco-system of the riverbed.
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the common wealth games to be held in delhi in 2010 are going to pose a lot of problems for the environment and the ecosystem.even after people from the nearby places complained and it is being constamtly shown in the news how the people involved in the development of the game village are being negligent about this no strict action is being taken by the government.
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