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There cannot be a plea of deficiency of funds as these can be collected by way of penal action, it added. Whatever is required to be done for the purpose may be done by the state. SHIMLA: While hearing a matter related to water and air pollution caused by hotels besides encroachments and violations by them in Kullu planning area, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday turned down the request for a long adjournment made by Himachal Pradesh government to comply with the orders issued on July 16. On this, the tribunal observed that if 1,000 hotels were required to be inspected and only 166 had been inspected so far, which was less than 17%, then the work could not be appreciated.“A welfare state cannot afford to adopt such attitude when the lives of peoples are getting affected. It cannot claim the luxury of seeking more time repeatedly without performing its constitutional and statutory duties,” it added.The tribunal said that the plan of the state must be meaningful and equal to the taste and it sees no justification to give more than six weeks to complete the entire task..