CHANDIGARH: The government committee appointed via the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to watch and regulate pollution levels in the Ghaggar is likely to raid more water polluting industries in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh.
On Friday, a group of the executive committee headed via chairperson Justice Preetam Pal raided two water polluting industries in Chandigarh and seven in Panchkula the next day to come. Justice Pal found the treatment plants in all these electroplating industries non-functional and had slammed officers of the pollution regulate board/committee for being negligent in the matter. However, T C Nautiyal, member secretary of the Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC), stated not one of the small electroplating gadgets have been operating with out the required effluent treatment plants (ETP) being in operating condition in Chandigarh. He additional stated he used to be yet to get the file from the committee and used to be ready to do so in line with the committee's route and recommendations.
Justice Pal advised IdealNews that, "We found none of the treatment plant operational. Since these ETPs consume electricity, so their use was bypassed and the waste was being dumped into drains, which eventually merged with the Ghaggar and became disastrous for the survival of aquatic life, other animals and cattle and people dependent on it." He stated that a file would quickly be despatched to the pollution regulate departments, which may close down these factories, prosecute the operators or fee surroundings compensation quantity from them. He also slammed the regional officers, announcing that they too must be held responsible for allegedly being in connivance with the ones concerned and overlooking the malfunctioning of these industries and recommended mention of dereliction in their annual confidential file. He added that in the coming days his group would pay wonder visits to the industries in HP and Punjab.
Nautiyal stated the Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee used to be in a position to explain to the executive committee that the electroplating gadgets, which were raided, had functional ETPs. "There are 100 small electroplating units in Chandigarh, which do not run ETP on daily basis as they need storage water, which on getting dirty is accumulated at a threshold point in a few days to use the ETP to treat it. It is quite possible when the team of executive committee made the surprise check without our officials, the ETP was not being run. Unlike solid treatment plant or a big ETP, the smaller ones do not operate all the time," he stated, adding that not one of the gadgets are authorized to perform with out ETP in the town limits.
According to the group, it had also visited Sukhna and N-choes, Nautiyal stated the group used to be satisfied but had first of all expressed some reservation on spotting brackish water.
On Friday, a group of the executive committee headed via chairperson Justice Preetam Pal raided two water polluting industries in Chandigarh and seven in Panchkula the next day to come. Justice Pal found the treatment plants in all these electroplating industries non-functional and had slammed officers of the pollution regulate board/committee for being negligent in the matter. However, T C Nautiyal, member secretary of the Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC), stated not one of the small electroplating gadgets have been operating with out the required effluent treatment plants (ETP) being in operating condition in Chandigarh. He additional stated he used to be yet to get the file from the committee and used to be ready to do so in line with the committee's route and recommendations.
Justice Pal advised IdealNews that, "We found none of the treatment plant operational. Since these ETPs consume electricity, so their use was bypassed and the waste was being dumped into drains, which eventually merged with the Ghaggar and became disastrous for the survival of aquatic life, other animals and cattle and people dependent on it." He stated that a file would quickly be despatched to the pollution regulate departments, which may close down these factories, prosecute the operators or fee surroundings compensation quantity from them. He also slammed the regional officers, announcing that they too must be held responsible for allegedly being in connivance with the ones concerned and overlooking the malfunctioning of these industries and recommended mention of dereliction in their annual confidential file. He added that in the coming days his group would pay wonder visits to the industries in HP and Punjab.
Nautiyal stated the Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee used to be in a position to explain to the executive committee that the electroplating gadgets, which were raided, had functional ETPs. "There are 100 small electroplating units in Chandigarh, which do not run ETP on daily basis as they need storage water, which on getting dirty is accumulated at a threshold point in a few days to use the ETP to treat it. It is quite possible when the team of executive committee made the surprise check without our officials, the ETP was not being run. Unlike solid treatment plant or a big ETP, the smaller ones do not operate all the time," he stated, adding that not one of the gadgets are authorized to perform with out ETP in the town limits.
According to the group, it had also visited Sukhna and N-choes, Nautiyal stated the group used to be satisfied but had first of all expressed some reservation on spotting brackish water.
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