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<h1 style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -72.0pt; line-height: normal;">The amended proceedings of the hearing held on 07.11.2022 is placed for approval of CA of the Board, please.</h1> <h1 style="margin-left: 72.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -72.0pt; line-height: normal;">Subject:          Proceedings of the personal hearing before Chairman of the Board on 07/11/2022 at Punjab Pollution Control Board, Zonal Office, Sri Amrtisar Sahib for refusal of consent under the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act 1974 & Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act 1981 M/s Curo India Pvt Ltd (Formerly Dynamic Continental (P) Ltd) For Project Flamez Mall, 66 Ft Road, Lohar Nanagal, Near Urban Estate-II, Jalandhar. </h1>                                                                   Following were present:- On behalf of Board:-            Er. G.S. Majithia, CEE, Jalandhar                                                   Er. Sandeep Bahl, SEE, ZO, Jalandhar                                                   Er. Ravinder Bhatti, EE, ZO, Jalandhar.                                                                            On behalf of Industry:-       Sh. Kamal Soni, G.M Operations.                 The officers brought out that the project is a shopping mall and was earlier granted consent to operate under Water Act 1974 dated 05.01.2022 valid upto 30.09.2022 for discharge of domestic effluent @ 37 KLD into sewer after treatment through STP and Air  Act, 1981 dated 05.01.2022 valid upto 30.09.2022.              The shopping mall has now applied for renewal of consent to operate under Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 & Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 through OCMMS of the Board.              The shopping mall was visited by officers of Regional Office-2, Jalandhar on 26.09.2022 and it was observed that:- 1.    The shopping mall was in operation during visit and presently, around 4 to 5 eateries and 1 Multiplex theatre are operational in the shopping mall complex. 2.    It has installed the STP for treatment of its domestic effluent and same was in operation during the visit. The treated domestic effluent is discharged into M.C sewer after STP. However, the water meter was non-functional, so domestic effluent discharge through STP could not be calculated. 3.    The shopping mall is using ground water as source of fresh water. The water meter reading was noted to be 167728 KL during the visit. 4.    As per the record maintained by the project proponent, the average fresh water consumption since 01.08.2022 is about 110 KLD. As per the feasibility report submitted at the time of CTE, the maximum demand for domestic is 48 KLD, HVAC is 30 KLD and green area is 10 KLD. However, the average domestic consumption after discounting for HVAC and green area comes out to be 70 KLD and effluent generation comes out to be @ 56 KLD, which is much more than the consent discharge of 37 KLD. 5.    The maximum fresh water consumption has been observed @ 231 KLD on 09.08.2022 which is much more than the fresh water requirement of the project @ 88 KLD. 6.    The shopping mall is discharging the entire effluent into sewer and has not made any arrangement for re-use of treated effluent within its premises. 7.    The shopping mall is lifting the entire solid waste to Acme Engineers, Jalandhar. The mall has not made any arrangement for in-house treatment of the solid waste, as per MSW Rules, 2016. 8.    The shopping mall has installed D.G set of capacity 1000 KVA with canopy and adequate stack height. 9.    The authorization under HWM Rules, 2016 granted to the shopping mall for category 5.1 has expired on 13.07.2021 and it has failed to obtain renewal of authorization from the Board till date.             Accordingly, the shopping mall was issued show cause notice for refusal of consent under the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act 1974 and Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act 1981 with personal hearing before Chairman of the Board on 07/11/2022.            The representative of the industry informed that the water meter at outlet of STP was not functional only for few days due to technical snag. They have maintained all reading records for the remaining period and same was shown to the officer at the site. However, new meter was installed immediately. The average fresh water consumption is between 80-90 KLD only due to annual cleaning of HVAC, fire tanks it increases. 2 Fire tanks of having capacity of 1 Lakh liter each. However, discharge of treated water to main MC sewer is approx. 15-20 KLD per day which is almost half than approved which is 37 KLD. They have paid sharing charges of amount more than 25 Lakhs to Municipal Corporation, Jalandhar. Apart from that Municipal Corporation is also taking water/sewerage charges as per the reading of borewell of fresh water. They voluntarily showed the reading to the concerned officer. The officer had only noted the highest consumption on a particular day and that was due to annual fire tanks and HVAC cleaning. However, the average consumption is app. 880-100 KLD per day in summers and decrease in winter depending upon the weather conditions. It includes HVAC/Green area/fire tanks and domestic use. They do pay the charges to the MC, Jalandhar for the same as per bore well reading and confirm that if consumption increase in future, they will amend the requirement. They are only discharging treated water into main sewer and taken from them after paying sharing charges. Rest, they can assess if feasible they can use some water for green area. Regarding solid waste management, they use to pay to MC, Jalandhar recruited vendor Jindal Company to collect domestic garbage on chargeable basis and later when company got dispute with MC, Jalandhar, other vendor was recommended by the company ACME Engineers on chargeable basis who decompose dry/wet at his own premises.                 The Hazardous waste authorization expired last year, they will renew the same in limited time. They are using only one DG Set and consent is taken for 3 DG Sets. The Electricity supply to premises is from the Main 66 KV Station with separate feeder and it's a Hot Line. The DG works very rare main supply is PSPCL. Further, they have been facing lot of problems since last few years due to financial crisis in the sector and especially after Covid-19 the toughest period they are facing. They did huge investments in Punjab and seek support for the same for the smooth running of the businesses. They are putting best efforts to get back the things on track, which will definitely give benefit to Punjab. They are law abiding citizen and will follow the rules as per the Government and requested to renew the consent.                     After hearing, the officer of the Board and representative of the industry, the Chairman of the Board decided that:- (1)  Environmental Compensation of Rs. 2 lac is imposed on the shopping mall, due to the environmental damage caused, on the basis of best judgement assessment, within 10 days. (2)  The shopping mall shall submit the permission from Central Ground Water Authority for extraction of ground water within one month.. (3)  The shopping mall shall install in-house treatment of municipal solid waste by 31.12.2022. (4)  The shopping mall shall apply for renewal of authorization under HWM Rules, 2016 through OCMMS within 07 days. (5)  Environmental Engineer, Regional Office-2, Jalandhar shall visit the shopping mall to verify the approved built up area of project & the record of fresh water consumption/HVAC/ green area, check the adequacy of plantation area provided by the shopping mall, collect the effluent samples of STP and submit the report alongwith recommendations to decide the consent application within 07 days.

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