BCCI Offers To Use Sewage Water For Next IPL 2016 Matches In Maharastra :
BCCI(Board of control for cricket in India) on Tuesday told Bombay high court that it will use treated sewage water to maintain its pitches for the 2016 IPL( seventeen) matches to be played in Pune and Mumbai, also informed to the court that franchise (Kings XI Punjab) wants to shift all its three matches out of Nagpur that is Nine matches are to be played in Pune and eight in Mumbai.
Justice M S Karnik and V M Kanade were informed
by senior advocate Rafiq Dada that BCCI requested the Royal Western India Turf
Club to provide water from its sewage treatment plant at the Mahalaxmi
racecourse.Dada said that they are not going to use tankers for now and
informed, "Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC) will provide 7 to 8
tankers of sewage treated water per day.
Since the government's affidavit was not ready
The court is hearing a PIL by NGOs Loksatta Movement and Foundation for Democratic
Reforms about the "misuse" of lakhs of litres of waters to maintain
cricket pitches.
The court on hearing about this it lambasted
the BCCI for wasting water to prepare pitches for the forthcoming Indian
Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament, at a time when several parts of the
state, including Thane, are facing an acute shortage and also directed the
state government to commission an inquiry and find out whether water supplied
for maintaining pitches for the matches is potable or non-potable.
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis
had made it clear that his government will not provide potable water for IPL
matches in the state.
"Our government has taken a strong
position in the court. Even if IPL matches are shifted, we have no
problem," Fadnavis had said making his government's stand clear on the
issue of wastage of water for maintaining pitches.
Earlier, the board had got a big relief after
the court gave a go ahead to the first match of the upcoming ninth season of
Indian Premier League (IPL) to be held on April 9 at the Wankhede Stadium in
Mumbai.
However, the court did not decide on the other
IPL matches in the state.
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