During a letter to Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani and senior officials of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and global global climate change , Union of India, and their counterparts within the Gujarat, has said taken strong objection to the taking a gathering with concerned authorities on Vishwatri riverfront project despite objections by legal authority.The chief minister should have instead concentrated on why Vadodara Municipal Corporation has continued with the dumping of fresh debris, discharge of untreated sewage, filling, levelling, allowing encroachments and construction, and such, along/in/around the river and its environs (banks, ravines, tributaries, ponds, wetlands, runlets, ditches etc.), he suggests."This process has resulted in illicitly increasing the important estate and encroachments of the natural components of the interconnected river system", he adds during a letter to Rupani. Excerpts: The Chief Minister of Gujarat organised an urgent meeting on Friday, December 20, 2019 for the Vishwamitri River and made an announcement through press release about the Detail Project Report (DPR) for the Vishwamitri River. We are utterly shocked and extremely surprised about the sudden urgency for such a meeting and that too, which did not put forth any ideas or direction for (a) resolving the pending issues regarding the Vishwamitri River and (b) addressing the utter failure of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) even implementing various and repeated directions given by the concerned authorities. Despite such glaring governance and lack of accountability issues, the CMO, with other concerned departments is discussing the possibility of a new project for the Vishwamitri River without mentioning about implementation of referenced directions.We want to again put on record that repeated letters to the concerned authorities and our constant follow-up, the VMC had also received directions by concerned authorities, which there are crucial orders by Supreme Court and National Green Tribunal (NGT) applicable to Vishwamitri River also:
Explicit directions, sent to the Additional Chief Secretary of Forests & Environment Department, Gujarat State, by the Central Government’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, National River Conservation Directorate’s Joint Director on 03.06.2019.
The Gujarat Pollution control panel (GPCB) direction dated 08.01.2018, the legal notice dated 12.07.2018 and 10.12.2018, and visit to varied site showing dumping and encroachments on 24.04.2019 by the Committee headed by Chief Justice (Retired) of Delhi High Court Justice BC Patel, and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board officials. 
Legal notice, dated 06.08.2019, to VMC, under section 15 of ‘The Environment (Protection) Act 1986’ by the GPCB.
Interim Order dated 25.05.2016 passed by the National Green Tribunal (Western Bench) of Application 49 of 2016 (Rohit Prajapati and Anr V/s Secretary MoEFCC & Ors).
Order No. SEIAA/GuJ/General/512/2016 dated 09.08.2016 passed by the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), Gujarat, passed in the Withdrawal Application for VRDP Project No. SIA/GJ/NCP/4584/2015, dated 05/08/2016 of Vadodara Municipal Corporation.
Order, dated 22.02.2017, of the Supreme Court in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 375 of 2012 (Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti & Anrs V/s Union of India & Ors). 
National Green Tribunal, Principal Bench, Delhi, Order, dated 03.08.2018, 28.08.2019 in Original Application No. 593 of 2017, (Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti & Anrs V/s Union of India & Ors).
National Green Tribunal, Principal Bench, Delhi, Order, dated 06.12.2019, in Original Application No. 673 of 2018. 
The repeated waterlogging and floods in Vadodara are exemplary of systemic and deliberate failures that are caused by unbridled desire that reflect unsustainable greed and, possibly, corrupt collaboration for public and private development projects and related activities. These are devised and implemented without consideration of law of the land, common sense, and with complete disregard for nature / ecological systems. Examples abound:
Allowing deforestation and indiscriminate land-use changes in the catchment area of the Vishwamitri River to accommodate development; 
Altering the course and resectioning of the banks of the river, its tributaries, ponds, and their connecting runlets and ditches;
Encroaching the floodplains and the ravines of the river by permitting construction of buildings of various types; 
Dumping of construction and demolition debris and other wastes along the river, its tributaries, nalas, ponds, runlets, ditches, wetlands, low-lying areas, and ravines; thus.
Reducing the water carrying capacity and habitat values of these interrelated components of the river system;
Constructing retaining walls or hard pitching around the river, ponds (invariably in the name of so-called “beautification”), and boxing and channelizing the tributaries and nalas and well-thought of old, human-made or natural storm waterways (ditches, etc.) are all interventions that destroy and disrupt the river system from functioning effectively; and
Disconnecting and disrupting the ecosystem services of the whole river system.
Despite all this and repeated requests from our side to take corrective and proactive steps, the Vadodara Municipal Corporation, instead of removing the dumped debris, had continued with the dumping of fresh debris, discharge of untreated sewage, filling, levelling, allowing encroachments and construction, and such, along/in/around the Vishwamitri River and its environs (banks, ravines, tributaries, ponds, wetlands, runlets, ditches etc.). This process has resulted in illicitly increasing the important estate and encroachments of the natural components of the interconnected river system. On top of all such undesirable actions and outcomes caused by the concerned authorities, there appears to be a well-organized propaganda about how Vadodara suffers from frequent floods and how crocodiles become dangerous for humans and these, in turn, are used for justifying more ill advised projects. Has anyone among the concerned authorities even attempted to learn from experts the scientific and technical reasons for what causes “floods” or why crocodiles are found in human habitats in Vadodara? What happens in Vadodara is not flood as much as waterlogging and man-made floods because of incompetently devised and badly implemented Town Planning Schemes and infrastructure projects; decreased water carrying capacity of the Vishwamitri River and and its environs (banks, ravines, tributaries, ponds, wetlands, runlets, ditches etc.) due to indiscriminate dumping of debris and solid waste; and inapt management of Ajwa reservoir during heavy rains.