Take final call, HC to Centre

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, December 6

The Uttarakhand High Court has directed the Central Government to take a final decision on the division of assets and properties between the states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand within a period of three months.

The double bench of Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Alok Singh in the ruling delivered yesterday directed the Central Government take the final call on the long-pending asset distribution between the two states, based on the settlement arrived at by the two states on January 2, 2016.

Further, while disposing of the PIL, the judges also directed the Centre to constitute a Ganga Management Board under Section 80 of the Act and make it functional within a period of three months.

It also directed the Centre to ensure that Uttarakhand was also made a member of the Upper Yamuna Board within three months.

During the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly session in March 2015, the Congress MLA, now Transport Minister, had moved a private member resolution urging the Centre to create a Yamuna river authority on the lines of the Ganga river authority, which was accepted by the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly and the Central Government was also informed about it.