<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">''<div style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to take immediate measures to check groundwater depletion in the national capital. </span></div></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The apex court perused a NITI Aayog report which said that various authorities were passing the buck and shying away from their responsibility.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The apex court criticised the Centre, Delhi government and their civic bodies for not taking any step to tackle this serious problem.<br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The top court had on the 8th of May expressed grave concern on over-exploitation of groundwater in most parts of Delhi. It asked the authorities to avert a crisis.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The issue of depletion of ground water had cropped up when the court was hearing a matter relating to the sealing of unauthorised constructions in Delhi.</div>