The Art of Living (AoL), headed by spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, today questioned the findings of an expert committee of the National Green Tribunal on the damage caused to the Yamuna floodplains after a three-day cultural event organised by it. "The committee while submitting its report on July 28 last year has relied on a single Google satellite image of September 15, 2015. Earlier, the expert committee had told the NGT that a whopping Rs 42.02 crore would be required to restore Yamuna floodplains which was ravaged due to the AoL cultural extravaganza. He refuted the allegations that it had wiped out the vegetation on the Yamuna floodplains, alleging that all such claims are completely "erroneous and false". Earlier, the NGT had slammed the Delhi Development Authority for casting aspersions on the findings of its expert committee on the damage caused to the Yamuna floodplains due to this cultural event.

Source: dna May 15, 2017 14:03 UTC