Industrial units along Ganga must install real time monitoring before June 30
Updated: May 11, 2015 04:48:35pm
New Delhi, May 11 (KNN) To check discharge of waste into Ganga and its tributaries by the industries, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued directions for installation of real time monitoring by the industrial units before June 30, 2015.
Union Minister of State for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sanwar Lal Jat informed the Rajya Sabha today that, “CPCB has inventorized 764 Grossly polluting industries discharging 501 mld of trade effluent directly or indirectly into the drains reaching the river Ganga and its tributaries.”
The CPCB has also identified 144 drains along the main stem of river Ganga, discharging about 6614 mld of sewage/waste water.
The board has issued directions under section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 to 200 industries and under section 18 (1) (b) of Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 to 178 units.
The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has issued closure directions, to 98 tannery units.
“The CPCB has issued directions for the installation of real time monitoring by the units before June 30, 2015. The CPCB has also issued time bound directions for the implementation of Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) sector wise to prevent the discharge of effluent into the river Ganga,” he said.
Meanwhile, Union minister for water resources Uma Bharati on Saturday asked the tannery owners of Jajmau area to install flow meters in their units to check tannery discharge in Ganga.
At a review meeting held in Kanpur on Saturday with National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), representatives of Kanpur Development Authority, Kanpur Municipal Corporation, Jal Nigam, Ganga Pollution Control Board unit and Tannery owners, the minister said that the Central government was serious for online monitoring of pollution in Ganga.
The minister asked the defaulter tannery owners to pay their dues so that treatment plant could be run properly. (KNN Bureau)
Union Minister of State for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sanwar Lal Jat informed the Rajya Sabha today that, “CPCB has inventorized 764 Grossly polluting industries discharging 501 mld of trade effluent directly or indirectly into the drains reaching the river Ganga and its tributaries.”
The CPCB has also identified 144 drains along the main stem of river Ganga, discharging about 6614 mld of sewage/waste water.
The board has issued directions under section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 to 200 industries and under section 18 (1) (b) of Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 to 178 units.
The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has issued closure directions, to 98 tannery units.
“The CPCB has issued directions for the installation of real time monitoring by the units before June 30, 2015. The CPCB has also issued time bound directions for the implementation of Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) sector wise to prevent the discharge of effluent into the river Ganga,” he said.
Meanwhile, Union minister for water resources Uma Bharati on Saturday asked the tannery owners of Jajmau area to install flow meters in their units to check tannery discharge in Ganga.
At a review meeting held in Kanpur on Saturday with National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), representatives of Kanpur Development Authority, Kanpur Municipal Corporation, Jal Nigam, Ganga Pollution Control Board unit and Tannery owners, the minister said that the Central government was serious for online monitoring of pollution in Ganga.
The minister asked the defaulter tannery owners to pay their dues so that treatment plant could be run properly. (KNN Bureau)
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