Project River Ravi - 3rd November

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 Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

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PROJECT RIVER RAVI - THE RIVER RAVI COMMISSION

RESPECTING THE RIVER - OWNING THE RIVER RAVI 

SERIES OF SEMINARS ON THE RIVER AND OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS IT

FIRST SESSION: 

INTRODUCING THE RIVER RAVI COMMISSION

SUNDAY, 3rd NOVEMBER, 6:30 pm

Ahmad Rafay Alam, environmental lawyer & activist 

The River Ravi Commission 

Chairman: Dr Kausar Abdullah Malik, Punjab Environment Protection Department 

Environment Protection Agency Director-General Maqsood Ahmed Lakh

Wasa Manging Director Dr Javed Iqbal 

Ahmed Rafay Alam, 

Punjab Advocate General Ashtar Ausaf Ali, 

Dr. Ijaz Ahmed, 

Vaqar Zakaria, 

Anjum Altaf, 

Ali Habib from WWF, 

Kamil Khan Mumtaz, 

Abida Ayub of IUCN, 

Objective: 

The objectives of the commission - especially constituted by the high court - is to protect the Ravi from further degradation to revert the environmental conditions of the river to its original state.

Current status of the River Ravi:

Various discharge lines entering the Ravi are polluting it to a level where survival of aquatic life has become impossible. 

The flow rate of the river has decreased considerably over a period of time whereas the contamination level has increased due to untreated municipal and industrial wastewater discharge. 

Though the commission is likely to confront budgetary issue but it was decided that a public interest case like cleaning of the Ravi would be dealt as a high priority case.

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